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Show eimiKis mm mmmm w mm mm ,.s. .s. .s. S. -S :S: I MASS MEETING FAVORS WATER BOND ELECTION .Maintenance of Old System Costly And Pressure Unsafe F.y nil almost umuiinmiis voir a I lame number of Springxillo t-il i-j i-j zt-lt expre-sod themselves :ls ill favor of t-:: 11 1 :iir olocli.'li for tho 'pnroyo of (U'lorminiliu' the liilily of bnniliiiu' 1llo eily for approximately ap-proximately ssn.iKhi for tho completion com-pletion of the now :ilor syslom. This decision v:is ro.ichod fallowing fal-lowing nil extensive discussion of Hit1 proposiiion by folly l'lll o:!i::ons iiiid taxpayers n: ;i mass iiu-eling hold in tin- SprinirviHo hiuh school aiidiloriiini Wednesday cveuinu'. Tho nicelhlL' v;.s called 10 onlor hy Mayor O. H. Maycock. who ox-lilainod ox-lilainod Iliat tho ciiy had already spoilt aliproxilna.toly SCO. (too in iho installation of tho now vai"i- sys-tom. sys-tom. which gave somo needed extensions ex-tensions of tho old syslom and replaced re-placed about throc-fonrlhs of tho old woodon stavo with now c;.st. iron pipe. I Tho mayor explained (hat upon j completion of tho firs! nnii ii w as found ttiat when the water was turned into tho iron pipes the iv-ninining iv-ninining wooden pipe linos eould not withstand the pressure which had to ho cut down to ."! or HI pounds, and that in so (bung part. I of tho water had to ho turned out of tile system near tile point of intake. in-take. In speaking in favor of tho hotnl issue A. Z. Richards, engineer in charge of tho installation of the new syslom, declared that Springville Spring-ville hud an adeipiate water supply and that t lie people of I his oily should ho proud of tho tact that no other connnunity in tho si: 10 has as fine 11 water. The present supply is enpahlo of giving L'(ill;l gallons per minute or one-half gallon per minute min-ute to every citizen in S i-ii:i: ille. The spal;ei' pointed (oit'in.H Willi all of tho available water in iho pipe line it is possil.lo with the new-pipe new-pipe to develop 1(111 pounds 'pressure, which ho estimated would scire at. least 11.0:10 persons. .7. F. Smilli. chairman . f the Ways and Means committee of the city council, spoke 011 tho city's financial fin-ancial condition and explained that hy floating a bond the entire old wood 1 ipe system would he rephn od with n good tirade of iron pipe. It was pointed out thai hy this investment invest-ment the city would effect a groat saving in upkeep and at tin' same time give (he needed fire protection. protec-tion. Tlie discussion brought out many angles' of the'sil nat ion. and in practically prac-tically every in.stauee the discission favored making the improvement. It was (he opinion of pracl ienlly every one presold (lint (he eloeliou would ,eurry in favor of the bond issue by an overw helming majority. |