Show GARBAGE PLANT muE CURRENT NUMBER ER of THE I the Municipal Journal and En Engineer Engineer Engineer contains a letter rom tho mayor of Waco Tex Tax explaining the methods moth employed by that city for disposing of its garbage As Salt Sait Lake Lako is now preparing to at opt an on improved method of handling anc and amI getting rid of its garbage the ex cx penance of the Texas Tetas city with a crematory should prove provo interesting and perhaps instructive Waco is s a n city of inhabit inhabitants inhabitants ants It owns a garbage furnace anc and four sanitary carts Garbage rub rubbish rubbish bish blab dead animals and offal of al all descriptions are arc collected by the wagons carted to the furnace anc and there cremated The Tho cost of operating ing lug thoo garbage carts averages 60 a month The furnace necessitates an outlay of a month This brings the total cost of gar bago bill up to a month The mayor says that o plant has given complete and he consid considers ers era it ono one of the tIle boat best investments investment the city i ever over An altogether thor different method has hoon beon reon adopted by South Omaha city does os not own it its wagons wag sg but lots tho the work of hauling to contractors On procuring a Ii 11 cense censo at a cost coet of 26 25 a year and securing tho the city olty by bond any person is entitled to haul garbage under untie specific o restrictions as to the kind o of vehicle used and hours for hauling offensive loads The Tho ono one who makes the bid gets ge the contract fo for hauling garbage for tho city Mayor M Kelly writes that th t since sinco this system has been boen in uso use it has given no cause for complaint and ud meets with mora more favor than the plan which preceded it of placing all nIl garbage garb ge hauling both for city and private privat individuals under the tho charge of a n city oit garbage master mastor There Thero are a at present thiro tir e licensed contractors This number he lie says has given com competition competition competition f petition which so far has regulated I price irice lri in a satisfactory manner manDer |