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Show "TAXPAYER" PULLS FIGURES ON THE EXPERT OF PRICE WATER COMPANY fMlfflr The fiun " IMtlCIt, Auk. 30. A leading nrtlcle In the Nen,dvoeale laat week give figure purporting to allow that the city of Price I tti.rrcrlng from n hort age or water, mid nlo thnt thin municipality mu-nicipality ha been using 739,018 gal Ion per day more tlmn It I entitled to, It I iidmltted In thl statement or the .VewR.Advoe.tte that Price N en titled to 310,013 gallon or water during dur-ing twenty-four hour while the canal I low. The amount or water used per duy per capita In Iiulsvllle, Ky., and other cllle In the United Btute I one hundred and ten gallon. If Price city hu n population of twenty-five hundred, on thl hast the umount or water leuulied per day I two hundred hun-dred and Keventy-flvo thousand gal I Ion or n continuous flow of forty. Ithiee one-hundredth of one cubic . foot per second, and one cubic-root per second will supply a city or fifty-eight fifty-eight hundred people. With the nddltlonul stock recently I purchased by the city wo have now sufficient for u population of about I son en thousand people. In cllle like Milwaukee, Wis.. Cincinnati, O.. and ' PI. Worth. Tex., the operation of meter, me-ter, ha given u fair test or the con sumption or water per capita. In these nnd many other smaller cities the loiikumplluu per capita I close to thlity.flwt gallon, which would sup-ply sup-ply u city ulmost three time the le I of Price. If the city of Price ha been using the 316,033 gallon or water It I entitled en-titled to It certainly ha been wasting the water In n manner thnt show extreme ex-treme extravagance nnd carelewneso. Where the NewN-Advocate obtained the figures purporting to prove that Price ha been using 1,076.080 gal Ion every twenty-four hour I rather puxillng. It Is a well known fait thnt owner or property using water under un-der the Price Water company have applied the water In a haphazard manner, not knowing whether or not the water they were consuming wa In proportion to the stock owned. Wh do they nut state accurately what t.ystetn or measurement they employ, ed In reaching their conclusions? Can It be shown that the water Was prop, erly applied T ir there who agltale this city Witter shortage matter would devote their attention to the correct method or measurement, the proper application, und the efficient management or the water rystem, they would he serving a laudable purpose. On the other hand P they bring the question be rote the public for the purpose of "bulling" the price of water stock, with a view toward getting their fin ger on the ten thousand dollam for which Price wo recently bonded, by unloading the stock held by certain Individual upon the city ut n flctl-tlou flctl-tlou price, then their ef foils nre to be tondemned nnd exposed. TANPAVKII. |