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Show CITY WATER SUPPLY IS WOT SUFFICIENT FOR GARDENS Undor pressure of the general demand de-mand for free water for city gardens, to reduce the cost of living. CommlS' sioner Miles L. Jones, in charge ol the water service, said: ''We desire to make the rate as low as possible, allowing as much water for garden irrigation as may be consistent con-sistent with public safety and domestic requirements, but the public must consider con-sider the fact that last year, without gardens, we had not an ounce of water to spare. "Every well and valve were open to full capacity last year. Much water was wasted, of course, on the lawns, and this no longer will be allowed. If there are many gardens this year, we shall have to put restrictions on water for lawns. The lawns will be considered consid-ered first, however, and the gardens oi secondary importance. Nearly everyone every-one who has a garden, also has a lawn. no ripe lor water, "The maximum supply of water is 11 million to 12 million gallons per day. This entire supply would be need- - ed to irrigate a ten-acre fied and it j would take a day, or a day and a half to do the irrigation." Utilization of the city's .interest in the bench canal supply, said Mr. 1 Jones, would increase the supply one-) one-) third, for domestic purposes, but the l city cannot obtain the pipe to make the necessary connection. The price , of pipe is at least one-third above ' normal, he said, and it cannot be purchased, pur-chased, with assurance of delivery, at any price. "Last year we made 256 now water connections, for new users," said Mr. Jones, To meet the increasing de-mands de-mands for water this summer, we have three additional wells. Wo have now gone our limit in the development of ! wells In the artesian basin." iThe Ultimate Solution. Asked what would be the ultimate solutici of the water problem, he said: "The building of the great storagp reservoir in Skull-crack. Our filing was made for that purpose, and some work will be done on it this summer." The expense of building the big reservoir, res-ervoir, he said, will be taken out of the revenues of the water department. I Commissioner Flygare was asked , whether he would advocate free water I for the city gardens He replied it j couldn't safely be allowed; that the j water supply was too limited. Mayor Heywood, in amiable mood to-I to-I day, joked about the figures on the cost of water, as commonly under-j under-j stood "Take some of my paper," he said, tendering some sheets off of his desk, "and the figures will appear dif- ferent, perhaps." ! The three "city dads" were a unit in I opposing any further reduction Oi the I wator rate for gardens and they emphasized em-phasized the benefit of the exemption j of two rods for each family having I two children in school, allowing water free for a garden 16 1-2 by 33 feet. |