The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-12
WNITA VOTES TO
GET FRESH WATER
Only SO Voters Cast Nay
Ballot Against Bond
Proposition
IT WILL COST $297,OOO
Pipeline and Reservoir to Be
Built by the Craig
Capital

speclal 10 The World.
VINITA, Aug. 1.-THE PROPOSE
lion to issue S297,000 In bonds for
building a water plant, publication
plant, and reservoir on Grand river,
near Ketchum, with i2-inch cast
iron nipe TO Vinita carried in the
special election Thursday by 10 to /.
The official count being 500 for to
SO agains'.
y A strenuous campaign has been
made during the past 10 days to
insure the water bonds carrying by
such an overwhelming majority that
the very force OF public sentiment
would quiet Collectors" pro
testers" and "enioiners" who have
blpeked eaeh water project here
tofore attempted for the past IS
months.
Water Tastes Bad Mt First.
While the artesian water here is
in fact clear, sparkling and healthy,
II is also very distasteful to
strangers until they learn to like
t." as the sulphur gives It an odor
somewhat like that of stale eggs
when broken, but the real reason
for the move for Grand river water
mas come from the fact that the
business men have awakened to the
fact that II Vinita 10 10 grow IL must
have water that will not rust and
corrode pipes and be the one de-
termining factor in causing indus
trial plants to turn away. Grand
river water will not drive strangers
away by its taste or smell nor In
dustrlal plants by Its action on boil
ers. IL the claim of the supporters
"a - ptr
la TIE closest for an adequate sup
piy for all future use.
The city fathers attempted to is
sue bonds and let the contract for
building the Grand river plant on
the serength of a previous bond
election in the fall OF 1920, when
$4,000 was authorized by a rs
per cent affirmative vote. but that
election was carried after a cam
paign for building a big dam and
filtration plant on Little Cabin
creek, two miles northeast OF here
near the state hospital for the in
sane, and suit was brought for
permanent injunction against the
use Of these bonds for the Grand
river project. The suit was won
In July and the only recourse for
the to-Grand- river" adherents
was another election.
Pump Station on Grand.
The $4,000 OF bonds will be
used in building an electric pump
station on Grand river. IL miles
southeast of Vinita equipped with
three motor-driven centrifugal
pumps, two for actual use and one
for reserve. These pumps will re-
ceive their power from 10000
volt transmission line from the Pub
lie Service company's plant here.
which will he built along with the
water plant, The puriflcation
nlant and reservoir will he built on
Ketchum hill, from which point the
water VIII have gravity flow
through 12-inch main to the city
limits. Rasins will be Of reinforced
concrete and the buildings housing
the filters, etc. will he Of brick and
concrete. The reserve reservoir
will have capacity OF 1000, 900 GAL
Ions and will he OF reinforced com
crete. Telenhones will connect VI
nita with the Ketchum hill station
and The river station.
Mayor Guy Patten went TO great
pains 10 give the citizens exact fig.
ures and facts on the whole propo-
sltion and his figures are considered
ultra-conservative. They show that
the citizens will never need he taxed
at all and that the plant itself will
provide a sinking fund To entirely
retire the bond issue In 25 years
from the profits of the sale of
water.
Added sources OF revenue imme-
dlately will be the Frisco railroad.
which will use Vini;a water for
al OF Its trains between Springfield.
Mo-. and Sapuipa. The citizens can
use the water for lawn sprinkllng.
which they have not done to any ex-
ten with the artesian water, which
Is INJURIOUS TO lawns.
Another Of the principal aims OF
,,orWafd-looktnR citizens here has
neen to nut Vinita in position TO
grow tndustrially with the opening
oI the immense coal fields lying a
rev miles northwest. when the big
companies commence development