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Show ; Moab City, Spanish Valley Sign WaterSewer Pact Formal water and sewer agreements were entered into between Moab City and the Spanish Valley Water & Sewer District at the City Council meeting Tuesday evening. Under the water agreement, the District will be required to acquire and supply water, water lines and storage sytem, constructed to city standards, and to asdd extensions to these lines as necessary at no expense to the city. The city is now providing water service to about 130 connections in the district, nd will continue to serve these. In turn, the city will operate asnd maintain the distribution system in the district, including includ-ing reading and repairing meters, and operating and maintaining well pumps and other supply sources. The two water systems, under the agreement, will be operated as one integrated system. For this service, the city will collect standard monthly service ser-vice fees at l'j times the standard city water rate. In addition, users in the district will pay a surcharge to ber used for retiring bonds or party at Organ Rock and they'd make the .discovery together. Cummings wrote: "Mr. Douglass was very noncommittal noncom-mittal about what he had been doing. He was very condescending condescen-ding towards our party. Said he was going to find the big arch he had heard about from his Paiute goide, Mike's Boy, who knew the country and had been to the bridge before. We might go along if we wanted to. A wonderful privilege under the circumstances." Nasja Begay, Cumming's Indian guide, was 25 miles away with his sheep and his father sent a younger boy after him with instructions to meet the group north of Navajo Mountain. Douglass wrote, "From this point we proceeded as one party all under the guidance of Jim Mike. Later we were joined by an additional guide of Cummings' party, Nasja Begay." "A spirit of rivalry developed develop-ed between Professor Cummings Cum-mings and myself as to who should first reach the bridge. For three hours we rode an uncertain race, taking risks in horsemanship neither would ordinarily think of doing. Fortune favored me at the close, the professor being some 100 feet in the rear when I reached the bridge. To Jim other district indebtedness. The city also has the option to adjust water rates as necessary. neces-sary. These same agreements hold in the service agreement, with the exception that $4 per month will be charged for sewer service in the district compared with S3 a month in the city. To implement the construction construc-tion of a water system an application for federal funds in the amount of $1,036,000 has been made to the Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976, a program of the Economic Development Administration. Action either approving or turning down this application is expected in about 60 days. If approved, construction on a water system will begin immediately. Mike is due the credit of giving the world the first knowledge of this remarkable monument. To the general land office belongs the credit for the discovery to civilization and for its preservation as a national monument." recorded Douglass. Doug-lass. Douglass and his men remained at the site for two days, scaling the bridge and measuring all its dimensions which were: Height: 309 feet; span: 278 feet; width on top: 33 feet; thickness of the arch: 42 feet. They also took a series of photos to record the event for history. Seated in the front row is Mike's Boy or Jim Mike as he's known today, listed as guide and discoverer of the Rainbow Bridge National Monument. |
