The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-05
Courthouse Meter Registered 100000 Gallons OF Water
Used In Month OF August; Leakage,Caims Commissioner
COMMISSIONER CARTER SAYS
COUNTY OFFICIALS ADVISED
REPEATEDLY TO REPAIR
PLUMBING.

Reyertng to the inadequate meth
DDS employed by the city officials be-
fore the necessitated intervention Of
citizens committee in regards to the
water crisis, City Attorney Mason,
at the commissioners meeting Friday
night, suggested to the Board that
the city engineer be instructed to test
the possible fiow from Chickasaw lake,
and that until his report is received,
all work now being done TO bring
the water from the lake 10 the
city mains be stopped
The suggestion OF the city attorney
was ignored by the Board of Com
missioners.
| Mr.. Mason stated that he had con-
versed with Lewis Boyd. the sec.
retary-treasurer of the Chickasaw Lake
Club, and that the latter had inform
ed him that the lake was only 10
feet at its deepest points; that the
| club desired to enter into a contract
with the city prior TO permitting them
TO pipe the water; and that the city
would be permitted to take only c
! feet of water out of the lake.
The city attorney was of the opin-
ion that the water in the lake was not
sufficient to supply the city. and was
not worth while piping. "Of course"
he stated, 'I'll admit I've never been
out to see, but I've been told So"
| Well" commented Commissioner
Wilson, anybody with eyes and a
little common sense could readily
observe that the Chickasaw Lake has
sufficient amount Of water to sup.
| ply our needs
Special Ordinance Illegal Says Mason.
City Attorney Mason ordered the
city clerk not to publish ordinance No.
AS, recently passed by the Board of
Commissioners, because he considered
IL illegal.
The ordinance provides for the dec.
laration Of an emergency. and that
the city acquire the water from the
lakes of the Rod and Gun Club and
the Chickasaw Lake Club: and also
provides that the water rates be
raised soc per thousand gallons, which
increase is to be placed in Special
Emergency Fund, to pay the expenses
incurred in piping the water from the
two lakes.
Letter TO Mayor.
Mr.. Mason's letter TO the mayor re.
garding the legality OF the ordinance
is as follows:
Ardmore. Okla, Sept. End, 1920
Hon. w. +. Freeman, Mayor;
City:
You having submitted to me a Ger.
tain ordinance passed at special
meeting OF the commissioners Tuesday
afternoon relative TO water emergency
Tor an opinion as to its legality, etc,
said ordinance being number -,
have carefully gone into the char
ter provisions and especially Section
s, Article . Of the charter relativ,
as to what the city can do. etc.
Under that section | am sure thi,
city Is provided full, and ample au
thority to act in emergencies such n,
has now arisen and the laws Of tn,
state surely grant US authority to steI
out and beyond the general restrict
ions in such a matter so vital to the
needs Of the city as now presented by
the water situation.
/ feel sure that the matters con
tanned In Section / Of the ordinance
II really found necessary. could have
been reached by q simple resolution
and even think that the commission
ors might have the authority to ac
without n resolution when such
grave emergency arises as now seem,
TO confront US.