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Show TO INCREASE OUR ' "1 CEINARY WATER I jH City Council Hears Report on M Available Springs, and Will M Take Early Action v M The City Council was in sss- M sion last evening at the City M Hall and transacted the follow- M ing business: M A petition received from Wil- M liam Williams et al, asking for M advice and redress against Dan- M iel Leigh for tapping their priv- M ate pipe line and refusing to M compensate them, was received " M and referred to the committee M on Water Works, with power M to act. II. J. Frcdrickson and Sons t M petitioned for an extension 04 ; M time in which to complete the ' M new library building, to Decern- M ber 15th, on account of the dif- M ficulty they had encountered in M getting materials shipped in. M A Sjko , extension had been M asKeirbf and granted by the Li- H brary Board and the council ac- M quicsced in the extension asked ,-. M for. M Engineer M. H. Dailey made M a statement in relation 'to the M available springs for increasing M the city's culinary water supply. M reporting that there were tv.u ' M springs -about one mile distant H Vstiomm M ground, tbst would just' abott .H double the x present sUpplv. H Ono of those springs iiKjnow. H as the Black Hock Spring,, ai ' H yields about 75 gallons permir.- M ute of excellent water. . It, w H decided by the Council to adviw H the Cedar Mercantile &, Live- H stock Co. that the city did not H care to purchase a spring that H they had offered, at this time, and to further investigate the H feasibility of adding the springs M above mentioned to tho present H water supply. H A contract with the Cox H Brothers, Charles and Joesph, H for tho digging of a cess pool H for the library building was H ratified, the price named being H $4 per foot and the depth 40 H feet. H |