The Coconino sun., 1923-10-05

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this week work out an alternative
proposition for submission to the rail-
road company and present this alter
native to city council next Monday
night for ratification, after which it
viii be forwarded to Mr.. Etter. 1t is
felt that an understanding can be
reached and contract drawn in time
to hold a bond election and get the
water development work started early
next spring. 1t is highly important,
in fact, that the work be started next
spring, whether in cooperation with
or Independent of the railroad COM
pany, because Flagstaff needs more
water. Right now, despite recent
heavy rains and snow on the city wa
ter shed, the water is so low that City
Water Superintendent John Marshall
has been obliged to reduce the rail-
road company's daily allowance.
Besides the three members of the
water committee above named, the
other councilmen at Monday nights
meeting were Mayor Tom Pulliam and
Charles Isham.
The proposition made to council by
Mr.. Etter is herewith printed, in full:
Honorable the Mayor of the Town of
Flagstaff,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dear Mr.. Mayor: We have had
under consideration for some time
the problem of the water supply at
Flagstaff and the necessity of max
ing timely provision for more ample
supply in order to take care of the in
creasing requirements by the towns
people and the railway. That the
town authorities are also alive to this
is evidenced by their employment Of
experts to make study of the situa-
tion and submit a report, a copy of
which we have seen, and with their
recommendations our own engineers
in a general way agree.
After investigating other sources
they come to the conclusion that the
further development of the present
one Jack Smith Springs) is the best
under all conditions and recommend a
number of expenditures which, while
desirable for the purpose, yet the to-
tai cost is beyond the capacity of the
town to take care of.
In the opinion of both the towns
engineers and our own, the present
necessity is an additional 50,00O,000
gallons storage reservoir to catch the
overflow from the one now in use;
this will now cost approximately
1894 900 and $4,000 more in develop
ment work at the springs, making a
total of $250,000, which they agree
will take care of increased necessary
requirements for some years, provid-
ed the water waste iss properly looked
after and controlled and this feature
is largely one of operation and not of
construction.
To raise this sum- it is necessary
that the town acquire the present wa
ter facilities owned by the railway
mot including, however, the six-inch
line from the reservoir used exclus-
lively by it), costing 1926, ,567, in order
that the present water plant and pro-
posed additions could be covered by
a bond issue; this, however, would
make total of $485,5 ,567, while, as /
understand, the present bonding ca
pacity of Flagstaff is only 1896, 900,
although its credit is good and the
water proposition so well wrought of
that any bonds floated for the pur-i
pose could be sold at par on 5h per
cent basis.
That the railway has been liberal
in expenditures for water as well as
for the. benefit Of the town as for it.
self, is evidenced by the fact that the
total is over $235 SOC, but as no town
can prosper without an adequate sup
ply of good water and as the contin-
ued prosperity of Flagstaff is much
desired by the Santa Fe OFFICIALS, we
will have to try and help Out, and /