Weekly journal-miner., 1918-05-29
C|TYGUARANTEES POST PLENTY
 0F WATER
WAR DEPARTMENTS RE- QUEST FOR MINIMUM OF 150,000 GALLONS DAILY
 IS GRANTED BY COUNCIL :;
 BUILDING STARTS SOON.
CFrom Saturdays Daily.)

The city organization this week formally notified Major C. E. Holm berg. commandant at Ft. Whipple, that the municipality had agreed to the request of the war department that the post be furnished with a water supply amounting to about l50,0O0 gallons day, arrangements having been made to increase the pumping facilities at Del Rio to meet this emergency, and, if necessary, 10 hook up at once with the Groom Creek project and insure both the city and the post with a practically unlimited supply of water. There was some fear expressed that the Del Rio plant would not stand up under the drag" placed upon it by reason of the increased demands, but when 1t is considered that there IS a flow of million or so gallons day at Del Rio, it will be seen that there is little likelihood that this supply will ever prove inadequate. While in all probability there will have to be some repairs made to the water mains leading from this plant, and the pumping facilities may have to be enlarged, the city officials are of the belief that it will bc well worth while to give the war department anything it wants in the way of water in or der to insure the opening of the big q, hn faf the contract provide that the water is to be supplied to the post exactly at cost, the city not wishing to make any direct profit on the transaction. Government engineers who have cX- amined the Del Rio and Groom Creek plants state that the supplies of water are among the best which they have ever encountered while Investigating such plants for the department The normal flow from Groom creek will be sufficiently large at most seasons oi the year to take care of the needs oi the city proper, while with the en- larged facilities at Del Rio, there is little cause to believe that Prescott cannot guarantee a sufficiently large water supply to take care of any number of patients and attendants which the government may sec flt to station at Ft. Whipplc.
 It is understood that when the ercc- tion of the 70 odd buildings which are to be included in the post be- gins, the government will put ill force of men numbering from 500 to 1000, the men to be used in building the structures in as short a time as possible. The government will house and feed the workers, this having been decided upon in view of the fact that it is now practically impos- sib1c to secure board and lodging for any sizable number of persons in this city today. Ii is believed that large temporary bunk houses will be CT ccted on the part of the fort reserva- ton which lies between the highway and the Santa Fe railroad tracks, and inc imported workers housed here.
 A large number of the buildings will be erected on the old parade ground. while several others will Dc built on the top of the ridge just east of the houses which were formerly used to quarter the non-comms- stoned officers. The plans for the new buildings arc all stock plans, and none of the details incident to the designing of the structures will have to be bothered with. the only question to be settled being as to the location of the buildings. Lumber of the di- mcusions needed has already been contracted for, and will soon be on its way to Prescott.
 Military officers who have been connected with Ft. Bayard and other posts which have in the past been turned over 10 the treatment of tu- Lcrcular troopers, state that in addi :ion to the invalids who are sent here. there will also be large influx of the families and relatives of the sick men, it being the custom in a great number of cases for the rela- tivcs to move to a place where they can be in daily communication with ,hc unfortunate hospital patient. Con- scqucntly. the officers say, d great many desirable people will probably move to Prescott and make the city their home as long as their loved
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