Show THEY SAY IT IS A GRAB Proposed Purchase of the Chabot Water Works San Francisco April 8The Chronicle Chron-icle attacks a bill introduced in Congress Con-gress by English of California to purchase pur-chase the Chabot water works at Vale jo for 200000 and devoting I to the use of the government navy yard and denounces the measure as a huge grab The Chronicle says these works are not worth over 40000 at a high valuation valua-tion Their use has been discarded by the people of Vallejo The board of trade at Vallejo met upon receipt of the news from Washington and authorized author-ized the following telegram to be sent Vallejo April 27The Hon Ben B English Washington The people of Vallejo protest against your action in presenting the bill for the purchase of the Chabot water works Do you favor fa-vor I Answer Signed GEO J CAMPBELIi JR President Board of Trade The following telegram speaks for itself Commodore Edmund Matthews chief of bureau of yard and docks Washington D C April 26 Representative Repres-entative English introduced on April 26 o bill to purchase the old Chabot water company property condemned I by the city of Vallejo as unfit for human I hu-man use its sources being the sewerage i sewer-age of seven ranches I will if passed be an outrage on the officers and men at Mare Island i Signed W D ANDERSON 11 D I Board of Health of Vallejo I |