The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-05-12


ant to meet the sinking fund interest for the current
year.
Why not let the surplus now in the water and
fund be applied to payment of the interest and
the usual installhent OF the sinking fund, saving the
money to taxpayers? There would be nothing I'M
fair about that.
Now, with regard to identifying the city with
cheaper water, as proposed by the Herald. That
means planting trees, growing lawns, rose garedns
etc.
To large proportion of city lots, for homes and
dwellings, the first cost is prohibtive. Nogales IS
city of steep hills. In some places there is flat
ground, that can be planted and cultivated without
preliminary cost But those places On the hills that
are improved there was costly preliminary expense
in blasting out rock building retaining walls and fill
ing in with fertile SOIL Nothing would grow upon
. them save few mesquite and catcaW brush. Those
rocks had to be covered with SOIL and deep pits had
to be blasted into the rock to give for trees to
take root and grow and retaining walls had to be
built to hold the earth necessary to lay in order to
give grass roots with and other lowering plants
soil upon which to feed
City,Clerk Cole relates how he spent several hun
dred in walling blasting and filling in at his home
600 Morley Avenue with completion of but small
plot of ground upon which anything could grow,
The home of ''The Oasis" people at the corner OF
Crawford and West Streets is practical example.
When the family occupied the house in 1898 the lot
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it would retain earth and make level terraces on which
to plant lawns rose garden, etc., cost about S6Oo
Then there were blasted into the rock deep pits and
broad ones which were filled with earth hauled IN
from, outside the city, to give roots OF trees chance TO
grow and draw sustenance necessary OF lie; ana the
hillside was covered with earth to make e'el places
thatwere plane with the tops of the walls tne Dol
lar wagenloas was raii for bringing in that SOIL,
and at one time and anot'ie> there we e hauled ana
spread there $50 wagon loads OF SOIL There were
$3.50 first cost of those lawns rose garden ana those
trees. the atterrgrown so high that their topmost
boughs are above the angle of the gable roof Inc
entire cost for water never exceeds $500 for month
and that's but two or three months in the dry season
immediately preceding the summer rains, while most
months it runs only five six dollars Which INCLUDES
culinary purposes laundry, bath and all the various
uses to which water is put in home. 1t IS sa1e 70
assert thathe entire cost OF water for that rose gar
den those lawns (there three OF them ana those
three flour big ones, with several bearing lft trees
in the rear) does not exceed five dollars per nolI
That is not prohibitiye as the Herald artlce wqulo
have one believe But the first cost ct preparation
was nearly 10. Without doubt there are niany
homes that would be beautifed were 1t not Tor the
preliminary expense of preparation. And 1t should
not be forgotten that to do what was described
at Crawford and West Streest would cost double now
what it cost when those big trees We're planted :,
So the argument for cheaper water as pl't Iorus
nv the Herald is a non sequiter, from two points OF
view 1t will not beautify many homes on account
of extensive cost of preparation; while the water
and Sewer Department should pay It's onglnal coSV
as well as the cost Of maintenance.
'Facts count more than adjectives, quoth tne
Herald. You bet they do and the fact that Soo'zo