The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-26
DIMOND INSISTS WATER COMPANY ION ALASKA MAN GOES AHEAD ON |FOR JUDCESHIP |MPROV VEMENTS
Lewis Cites Steps Taken for Bettering Service
 and Water Supply

The Juneau Water Company is going ahead with it's improvement program and will gladly cooperate with the City authorities and Ches- ter A. Smith, engineer employed recently by the City Council to re- port on the water supply and dis tribution system, the Chamber of Commerce was told today by R. F. Lewis, President of the company.
 He reviewed some of the work now in progress to improve the system in town and in the basin to augment the present supply sources.
 Will Confer With Smith
 MT. Lewis said he wanted to confer with MT. Smith in the whole situation before making any ex- tended statement. He will give to the City's Engineer a complete report on the companys properties prepared six years ago by the Loveland engineer for the Foshay interests when they were negotiat- ing to purchase the local system.
 Two thousand feet of pipe, which he said was taken out by the rockfill on Willoughby Avenue is now being replaced and this work is almost complete. The company is going ahead and making a di- rect connection with the Alaska Juneau Hume in the basin. This, he said, is perfectly safe from a sanitation viewpoint. This will give a good supply of water for all win ter. MT. Metzgar, he added, had as- sured him he would construct a new intake house, lining it with asbestos and installing an electric heater so there would be no dan ger of freezing. It will be warm all the time. Water will be turned on there as soon as a cold snap oc- CUTS. Thus, instead of waiting un- til there is a shortage, a supply will be available before there is really need for it. If it is the con- sensus of opinion here, he declared, that the water should be turn ed off in the houses where the supply pipes are not protected, the company is ready to do it. He es~ timated there would be about 200 such houses.
 Alaska Training GrOound
 The Alaska National Forests are a valuable training ground for the personnel of that service, declared Regional Forester c. H. Flory, citing the selection of B. F. Heint- zleman and M L. Merritt for im- portant positions elsewhere as proof of his contention. Forest Service activities have increased 50 per- cent. under the Roosevelt Adminis- tration. This has necessitated a re- adjustment and reorganization of the forces of the Bureau. Six months ago a personnel study was begun and on that basis outstand- ing men have been selected for the more important new positions.
 Tt is particularly gratifying to me that we can furnish two men on this list" he declared This refutes the saying often heard in the service that when a man is assigned to duty in Alaska, that's the end of him. MT. Heintzleman was selected to head the reforesta- ton and forest management pro- gram to be undertaken under the lumber code by private owners of MT. Merritt is going to Portland to have charge of the operations division that are great ly augmented under recent develop ments. Tt is evident that Alaska is the place to develop men and not to shelve them" he said.
 Carry On as Usual
 Although current appropriations for work have been severely cur tailed, the Forest Service will car- ry on in Alaska as uusal. The nor nal road program will be carried out, and all of the other work will go forward as usual, he said.
 Transformation of roads and transportation during the past 13 years has been revolutionary in the United States, MT. Merritt said. This was brought home to him on motor trip from South Bend.
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