Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 90, Number 27, 21 September 1895 — PLENTY OF WATER. [ARTICLE]

PLENTY OF WATER.

]juvioa and I>aviH Think It Is at Smith'* 1 I'l'BVdl Pita Trustees Lawton and J>avis went out yesterday to eiutnine Smith's gravel pit, east of the ciiy, for ihe purpose of determining whothor or Dot there is a chance oi' obtaining an abundant supply of good, clear water for the city. The reBult of their investigations hass.v. liiem ttiat there wi.i be an inexhaustible Bupply when it ia properly opened up. Kbe proposition made by Sir. Smitfa to the Board or City Trustees was that the city should supp.y him freo with suiliciont water lor irrigation purposes it ha allowed it to sucuiu water on his place. The Trustees who went out yesterday deieriniuod mat it would not be best tv agree to such teruas, but they agr. water was lound m sullicient ijuantHj', to recommend the board to pay him jLujU an acre for ten acres ot laud, and to sell him water tor irrigation at lv cents a miner'a inch.