, 1924-03-19
SEWERAGE SYSTEM TOWNS
URGENT Need, PROPERTY
owners TELL THE MAYOR
Cost Not Enough to Be Burdensone-Strong
Opposition to Sewers in District
No. l Only

Cody wants "A sewerage system; it
wants n good one; and it wants it
soon!
This fact was made plain whea
property owners gathered in the City
Hall on Tuesday afternoon, at which
time Council met in special session
to hear arguments for and against
the proposed plan for u sewerage sys-
TEN for n portion of the town only.
For the first time in local history
all warning factions were in accord.
They were unanimously agreed that
they wan sewer and wan 'em bad!
There was but one opinion of the
cess-pool nuisance, unsanitary and ex-
pensive, when a first class sewerage
system may be put in at a cost, as
nearly as can be arrived at, of not
than so a year to each property
owner for u period of 20 years, and
probably much less.
The hall was well filled with prop
erty owners, all of whom were willing
to pay assessments and a small tax for
a sewerage system which should in
clude the whole town. But all were
strongly opposed to a sewerage sys-
tenn confined to a given district al
though the property owners in that
district bore the entire expense of
putting in their own sewers
1t was argued hat the proposed
plan would later make it more diff
cult to obtain a sewerage system for
the entire town because the property
owners in this district already having
their sewers would vote against II
bond issue which would make them
pay their proportionate share for Il
municipal sewerage system.
Another argument against the pres
emit plan for q sewerage district was
the fact that the extra amount of
water used would make it necessary
to pump sooner and the additional ex-
pense would have to be borne by the
whole town while receiving no bene-
fits.
Howard Bell, city engineer, who
drew the plans for the proposed dis
trict, when Intercepted admitted that
he did not know Of and never had
heard of any town where there vas
any such sewerage district as that
proposed for Cody.
Russell kimball, who drew plans
for a sewerage syatem in 1911, stated
that the estimated cost at that time
wa $4,000; at the present time the
cost of carrying out the same plans
would approximate 100000. However,
Mr.. Kimball said, the former plans
had provided for a population of some
1000 people, which had proven to be
too optimistic, and the cost could be
greatly reduced by reducing the plans
and putting in a system only suffi-
cient to meet the present needs Of
the town.
u. +. HOLSTER, city attorney, said
hat according to the statutes, the
town could only be bonded for 4 per
cen of its assessed valuation or some
where around 100000, but hat this
stumbling block could be obviated by
making the whole town "A district.
In this event the trunk line and dis
posal plant would be paid for by the
municipality and the rest of the sys-
TEN by assessments made upon the
property owners.
These assessments could be paid at
once, thereby saving interest, or TX
tend over a period Of 10 years. The
municipal bonds would run 20 years
and work no hardship upon anybody.
Mayor Trueblood has appointed II,
W. Thurston, of the council, and u.
Il. HOLSTER to investigate the feast
bility Of putting in n municipal trunk
line and disposal plant. If this plan
is adopted, any district or the whole
town could connect at once with the
main sewer, or whenever the property
owners saw fit.