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About Jacksonville sentinel. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1903-1906 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1904)
underground supply but ns the jiijx- line SHALL JACKSONVILLE OWN IT'S of the board is present. The costly and j unsatisfactory experience of other towns to bring it to town would I h - two or more LIGHT AND WATER PLANTS? should be a warning not to grant an ex inila-s hi length the water would I m - quite As to whether the light ami water ser msri'ii on I clusive and perpetual franchise to any palatable when drawn front the faucets. vice for Jacksonville shall lx; handled by FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK. A* fortlie present supply of water that is I company. So rapid is the development the the town or by a private corporation j in electrical science that cheaper light had by the town front Jack moi creek that ClIHMI.t H Ml M M VF is the question now to be considered by Kin r<>M and power is one of the possibilities of would end ho s Mill as large quartz, tin- citizens of this place. The trend of the near future ami no contract longer Elilrfr.l in the |M>«i<>ni<r ul Juck'»invilir, mills wi re tn operation up the creeks for the times is for municipal ownership of J h < kaoii County Oo-gon. as setolili «tu** malli r. than for 10 years should tie granted. A the slicking* would render the water un public utilities and the exhorbitant. bail blunder now by the council might fit for house use ami the s-diment would SIHS! Hll-l IOM kAIH « barges ami frequent controversies and I mean thousands of dollars of unwarranted JI jo fill th«- pijie« and cisterns. one year ..... lawsuits between towns and private light 1 exixmditures by the town and by the cit ,75 six monlh* ..... There is a big underground flow of ‘bree mouth* .... . M> ami water companies is but accelerating izens for light, power and water service. water on the lowland below town but as this movement. Three-fifths of the j There is no need of haste in the matter it ih but 10 to 25 feet to bedrock ami this Cl.I IIHINl. Tl.MMH cities and towns of the United States now for it will require either company three months to get their lines up in the val I hr sentinel anil the Weekly Oregonian will water gets all the drainage from th«- town own their water ami light plants and the , ley to the points from which they propose iar M-nl in one address lor f- a year. The Senti it would not I h - healthful for drinking nel Kites the Jackson i imiity news and the Ore time is not far diatant when municipal ! to run their wires to Jacksonville. As gonian KO' S the state, national and world news, and cooking purposes. Ami a sewerage ownership of these utilities will be uni the councilmen are all careful experien thus u leader Is able Io cover the entire news system would not fully do away with held al alxml the price of but one paper. versal. There are many towns here in ■ ced business men there is every likeli hood that they will give this matter this Miurce of danger for tiler«- would vet Oregon that pay the greater part of their ■ careful consideration and it would be raiAt. K' hm . aie I ms « The J h < ksoimllr Hrntlnel will I m - «ent In ally uitilrrs*. »I any |M,aloffl< e In I m - great quantities of impurities from the •he I'nlted HlMte* 1«ir lour week* for IO ceni», street« ami back yards soaking into the expenses from the profits of their water! well for the electric companies to defer ill aulm option* regular or trial, will tie prompt ami light plants. Were there not big ■ submitting ironclad ordinances granting ly *U>ptM-«l at the date ol expiration, utile» a re ground. Water pumped from wells in profits in the*«- utilities, one of the com- ' to themselves exclusive and perpetual in wal la lev« Iveil franchises, until after they have first sub the mam part of town would lx- as liable [tallies seeking a jx-rpetual ami exclusive , mitted their propositions and given the be infected with «lisease germs as that franchise from us would not have offered council time to consider them, Friday, August 5,th 1904 to had from I h -1 ow for it is affected by surface to give a ¿"<10 street light service for ¿200 water. An unlimited supply of pure The «ritirai vol« r will have a big list mountain water could lx- hurl from Little a year and the other company offered to I TWO BIG ELECTRIC COMPANIES. Of the two electric companies seeking of candidates to select from at th«- presi Applegate or from Squaw lake but tin- light the streets free of charge if given an ironclad franchise. Of course they ex- to supply Jacksonville with light and dential election ibi» Novemlx-r, there be great cost would preclude this system pected to make this money liack by big power both are responsible and are in a ing eight presidi ntiid canulates to select unless lM>th Jacksonville ami Medfortl charges to the private consumers. position to carry out any contract they frolli, tllev living as follows: Republican, could join in tin- undertaking and the As to the profit in lighting, the retail may enter into for light and power. Roosevelt and Fairbanks; Democratic, towns were large enough to justify the price for electricity runs from 15 to 18 The Condor Power & Water Company, of Parker ami Davis; Prohibitionist, Swal ex|>eiiHc which would probably be ¿50,INN) , cents per kilowatt, while the town is which Dr. C. R. Ray is manager have an low and Carroll; Socialist. Debs and or ¿75,000. i offered current by the Gold Hill com electric power station at Gold Ray that Hanford; So« nil Labor, Corregan ami Water Jacksonville must have ami if pany at 3 cents a kilowatt. The cost of is all ready to run and next week the Con, Populist, Watson ami Tribbles; the town cannot get the liest then it will i operating the plant would not exceed work will be begun of erecting the pole Negro Liberty, Scott and Pavne; Inde* have to lake the Irest to lx- had. With ¿25. per month to keep the street lights line an«l stringing the wires to Medford is |H-mlent, lames Inman. * ample water for irrigating purposes in order and oil for the journals of the expected to lye completed within the Jacksonville could lx- made the hand dynamo. No expert electrician would be next two months. The Conder Company WATER SUPPLY EOR JACKSON- .somest town in all Southern Oregon for VILLE. reuqired for there is no complicated ina- have a concrete dam across Rogue River The problem of a supply of water for it now has the location and the environ- ! . cliinerv to look after, a dynamo being so which afford 1MMMJ horsepower. A power Jacksonville that will be pure ami in incut for natural lieauty ami scenery that simple in construction that if kept oiled, station, also built of concrete, has been ipi.mtitv sufficient for tlie town is one make it on«- of the most desirable res will run for months without repair. All erected and one large generator installed that is of serious moment to the citi/.i IIH ilience towns in Oregon. Jacksonville is that would be required would be for the and all the connections are ready to in of Ja< ksonvillc now that there arc bright practically without fire protection fortlie town night watchman to move the lever stall other generators so soon as the prospects for rhe town's growth. The present cistern water supply and hand ami turn on the current in the evening needs of the company require. hick of ipnplc water for household, irriga fir«- engine would avail little in a big ami turn it off in the morning. For wir Dr. Rav has secured for his Company tion and tire protection pur jmis »- s I s a heavy coni flag ration. With a large reservoir ing building« and doing other expert a ten year contract to furnish Medford handicap to the town's growth for a i on the hill an ample supply of water work the company would send a compe with current for light and power pur plentiful supply of water at reasonable j won bl lie in reserve to meet the tent man to lx; |«ai«l by the day by the poses at a price of three cents per kilo rates is one of the things always consul exigencies of a big fire and the high town, the individual paying the town for watt per hour for light and ¿5 per month cred by prosja-ctive investors la-fore the« gravity pressure would enable water to the wiring and fixtures for his buildings. per horsepower. The town will operate purchase pro|a-'ty iii a town. The more be throw n direct from the hydrants onto The dynamo would occupy no more space its own light and pumping plant as here satisfactory th«- public utilities of a : a burning building, A good water sys- than a large stove, and a space 8x10 feet tofore using electricity instead of steam. town the more prosja-rons, and the water tem woultl I m - one of thr most profitable in one corntr of the town hall would be Dr. Ray has submitted a proposition to supply istlic most im|H>rtant of th< sc util investments that could I m - made for Jack all that wotilil be required. The total supply Central Point with light and ities and is the one that should lie first sonville for that would <lo more than any cost of the light plant would lx; about power. He has also made contracts with considered m the upbuilding of a town othe r one venture to attract to the town £’,,500, of this ¿1200 would lx; for tlie a large number of farmers to supply their As there is n > large stream in the vi enterprising business men ami desirable motor and ¿2300 for freight, installing places with light and wi’h power. cinity of Jacksonville from which water families. and for wiring the streets for 50 incan The Gold Hill Development Company call I m - had for town use, so another source descent lights and for connections with has a capital stock of £100.000. The presi Jacksonville is now to have a bank and of supply must lx- secured. Of these buildings. Arc lights are not used in dent of the Company is Eugene Wuest- it isex|M-cted to lx; ready for business possible sources of supply then- are sev within two months, small towns, they being too expensive, hoff, who is a multi-millionaire and pres No details have eral that arc feasible. Tile one that given out but W. C. as a separate machine is required. ident and chief stockholder in the Union Morris, at present would I m - ill«- <'llca|M.-st would I m - the cross Jacksonville could as readily handle Refrigerator &TransitCompanv,one of the cashier of the Oregon Savings Bank, of cut tunnel 1 >ai*v Portland, will I m - at the head of the new the water as the light system though the great companies that operate refrigator creek now company which will lx- composed of ' cost of installing would lx; larger, prob cars on all the railroads in the United afford Portland, Spokane and Jacksonville cap ably ¿15000 for a system like the one States, this Company alone having 2500 Applegate. wat< r that italists. The Blue la-dge coptier people Peter Applegate has begun, which would cars. The vice-president of the company eat quality, but as the watershed of Daisy are the moving spirits in this bank un involve crosscutting beneath Daisy creek is John K. Fisher, of Milwaukee and one creek is small it is not like!« that a vert- dertaking ami it is an indication that with a tunnel an«l for a reservoir on the of the leading attorneys of Wisconsin. targe quantity of water couhl I k - secured, their mining venture is a go and that hill ami for piping the town. As the The secretary is Charles Rohde, manager but by ojiening up a targe tunnel area a they will make Jacksonville their head I demand for water would be very large of the Cudahy Rubber Company, of Mil storage capacity could be had to hold quarters. The o|M-ning of this liank will and the cost of pumping small the waukee, the great rubber manufactur- the inflow of water during th«- hours of lx- a most important factor in the busi electric company offering to furnish the ' er of the United States. H. Schaeffer the night when little is being drawn off ness revival to Jacksonville fot it will power at £5 per horsepower jx;r month, fills the position of both treasurer and that would make it possible that this first of all. give the people of this place I fora 24 hour service it would lx; a manager for the company. Mr. Schaeff system would supply all the demand for I renewed confidence in the future of their good business proposition for the coun er is a leading capitalist of Milwukee, lacksonville even were the tow 11 to double i tow n ami give them courage to undertake ! cilmen to thoroughly investigate the but has now removed to Gold Hill, in |M>pulatio'i. A reservoir on the hill, measures that will help in the upbuilding advisibility of the town owning both the where he will hereafter reside, his fam which would la- necessary to give gravity of Jacksonville. It will also give the ■ light and water plants so that they may ily to join him from the East in a short pressure, would give a reserve supply in tow n a higher standing in the commer -lie able to judge as to w hether the town time. Mr. Schaeffer’s company- has case of tire. Tlte town will be d< barred cial world ami tie a great advantage to j should retain its franchises or turn them bought tlie Houck water power and from getting water from Jackson creek the lta-al business men in the transaction I over to a private corporation. electric station at Gold Hill and this fall bv both the present water rights <4 in of their banking business. That a bank ; will liegin the work of putting in a new dividuals and bv require incuts for water has fa-en o|M-ned in Jacksonville will in- | The granting of a frachise for a light and larger race and a power plant of 8000 I h lilt- quartz, mills that are expected to I m - dicate to prospective investors ami im and water plant for Jacksonville is a horsepower. They will at once put in I im - itcil along Illis stream . As these mills migrants that the town is on the up matter of serious importance to the wel an additional wheel and another genera would us«- a very large quantity of water gr. de, that investments are safe anti that fare of the town and no final action tor giving them 5tM) horsepower and tilt v may have to put in storage reservoirs the town has a future that will justify should la- taken in the matter until a meeting their requirments until the new in the upper section of Jackson creek to their becoming residents of it. full and careful consideration has lieen station is in operation. This Company keep up the supply of water during the given the propositions submitted by the is now lighting the town of Gold Hill drv season. This reservoir system could companies asking for the franchise. and Mr. Schaeffer is now securing con Spectacles soldered and other light Ire ill itle a sour«-«- of supply for Jackson repairing done at reasonable prices at The council should consult with some tracts with mine owners and with farm ville ami it would not la- so very ex]x-n- Hickel’s jewelry store, Jacksonville. disinterested electrician and an attorney ers for power and light and he will have ■ive, as there are narrow gorges and dam as to the requirements of the proposed a system of wires about Jacksonville Cabbage, fresh and crisp and all other could be put in. While the water would service of the terms of contract and no even though he does not secure the vegetables fresh from Maury’s gardens be pure, it would not be M> mi cool as an vote should be taken until every member town’s contract. at Learned's. Fresh fruits of all kinds. JACKSONVILLE SENTINEL