R. E. Koon 1
W ater Ne
crease
What Our Immediate
^re and How to In- ^
Supply Quickly.
The arrival o f R .E . Koon, eoasuk-1 woald bo satisfactory, but to view of
tor onrinoor at Portland, whom the the fact that the water from the river
city council requested to coma down might be brackish, and its constant
hero, look ovsr all possible sources of pollution, ho declared that he could
water supply and make recommends- not recommend it as a source of sup.
Hons, was detoytd until Monday, but l*ly- The water supply for moat of
on Tuesday he and Major ilamiiUui, the cities in the Uni{pd States is
City Engineer Gould, Wafhi Superin- treated, and filtration would purify
tendent Epperson and several mem- water, but it was not advisable where
hers o f the council went out to* Fair- Sther sources of supply existed,
view and thence down the North F a t
As to the stntment that that« Warn
to the two Loot creeks, up orer the dead eels and fish found to tho North
mountain and down to tho fen ds*. Fork every summer, he said that while
tara et Rink croak.
the thought of that might not bo
They were out again on Wednesday pleasant, H did not constitute a men-
Special mention thou
Vernon Ricketts, who
the concertino, aaxopho
He has fan equals an
meats. Glen R. Menele]
is a renowned baritone
to rrsat demand as a sc
Ricketts, tho manarer
Pollution, while to running from tho
places wrhere the eels sheunded to
M m proposed intake tho water would
practically purify Itself. More than
«that, it la not expected to pump di
beet from that stream until a consist,
arable growth of tho city assy require
AS NEAR
D R O W N IN G
down the valley o f the Coquflle
mendation for securing other means
of supply as ha should have complete
data on dry weather conditions bo-
fore advising. Ha strongly urged the
council to wait another year, if pos
stole, before Upping now sources s<
¿hat this information might be eocur
As to the coat o f Ins tailing a pump
ing plant on tho North Fork ho had
got boon asked to fa k e an estimate
nor could fe offhand, hut if tha $30,-
000 bonds voted at the last election
were taken as a basis for figuring, fe
thought the annual cost would bo ap
proximately »6,000. Of this amount
11,800 would bo interest charges, M,-
000 depreciation with about »1,000 f a
maintenance and expenses. I f m 01-1
W EATH ER
R E PO R TS
Another statement in regard to
itorage was that the reservoirs would
probably fill rapidly with sih and re-
luirs frequent cleaning. Every par-
icle of vegetable mattur should be re-
■noved before any water was stored
isck of £ dam.
Probably if the pipe line is altered,
he head raised and the use of meters
adopted to stop leaks, we can get'
hrough another summer with put ad
ditional sources of supply and the nec
essary data on the North Fork can bo
<«cured this summer. But in any
event the impossibility of getting ©v-
■r there with material before late
funs almost precludes the idea of
getting any increase to supply any
where until early fall.
The council, which was not to regu
lar session Wednesday night, will pro-
ably take action to begin the im-
irovements at the meeting next Mon-
lay evening; end they are to be con
gratulated to starting to the right
lirecthm by securing the services ef
to capable an engineer as Mr. Koon
appears U be.
will soon be svailsb
There is a Farm
to CoqaiUe, of wM
"»artisl
he following officers sleeted: C. E
Mulkey, president; Mrs. Paul Ram
'ey, vice president; Ray Peart, aecre
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