The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-03-22
Site so by so Feet Leased
for 80 Years from CONNER
cial Club, at $25 Per Year.
WORK ON PLANT TO
BEGIN IN FEW DAYS
Pipe Connecting Present Plant
With Pumping Station
is Being Laid.

| Work on the new pumping station
was started yesterday morning, fol
lowing the leasing of piece of prop
erty west of The Frisco tracks anC
several hundred feet north Of Or!
Branch" The ground, which was leas
ed from the Commercial Club, has {
front of so feet by a depth of so feet
The lease is to run for 80 years a,
s25 per year.
The specifications of the new plant
ordered by the Public Service Com
mission have been completed and have
been sent to several contractors OF
the city who are asked to bid on the
job. At the hearing held here several
weeks ago before Edwin Bean, mem-
Der of the Public Service CommlS; c.:
it was stated tht this new plpn'
would cost between $4,000 and $4,000
The order issued by the Public Ssrv-
ice Commission early this month COM
pels the water company to construct
an intake plant north of the "Dry
Branch" directly west of the Frisco
tracks. A pump pit IL feet in diam
eter and 81 feet deep will be dug, and
the intake station will be equipped
with two 1900 gallon motor pumps and
sand trap and vacuum pump as aux
iliaries. A suction pipe extending 600
feet from this plant into the river viii
be used to convey the water to the
pumping station.
The land which was leased yester-
day by the water company is owned
by the Commercial Club. 1t was
bought from the Frisco several years
ago under the condition that it be not
sold, but merely leased for factory
sites. For this reason the water COM
pany could not acquire title to the
property.
The lease granted the water COM
pany by the city in 1914 will not eX-
pire until 1884. In the event the water
company releases its rights on this
land after the expiration of this fran
chise, the property will revert back to
the Commercial Club. The lease was
signed by D. A. Glenn, w. H. Bohn-
sack Jr., and ]. T. Num-, as trustees
of the Commercial Club, and A. NJ.
Tinsley, general manager of the Mis-
souri, Public Utilities Co., which op-
crates the water plant.
Accarding to Mr.. Tinsley it will re-
quire several days before the contract
on the intake station can be let, and
as soon as this has been completed the
work on the pumping station will be-
gin. The pipe which is to connect the
pumping station with the present puri-
fying plant near Sloan's Creek, can
be laid before the work on the con-
tsruction of the pumping plant can be
taken up.
The recent order of the Public Serv-
ice Commission issued to the Missouri
Public Utilities Co., will be strictly
carried out. This order conforms with
the suggestions made by the officials
of the company at the last hearing, ex-
cepting the length of the suction pipe,
which is to extend 600 feet into the
river instead of 500 as proposed by the
water company.
The second order of the Public
Service Commission recalled the one
issued several years ago, according to
which the company was to construct
an intake tower near Cape Rock at a
cost of approximately 100000. The
water company after many efforts fl
nally succeeded in having this order
Cancelled.
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