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Water Works

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
May
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Kditou Courikk: Who brought parties here frora Ohio to draw plans and mnke maps of the city, to teil the peopleofthe city liow they can get water and Iliat it is an absolute necessitj' that they slioulü have t. By what right was a committee packed in a certain interest, Is not the city well supplied with water for drinking and fire purposes? If it is not, a few more cisterns with our steatn and hand engiues re all that is needed, and they would not cost froni live to ten thousand dollars a year to keep them in order for a fire. Jackson and othercities about lis that are almost crushed by debts tor water works have thtee lires to our one. Will it reduce the rate of insuiance? We answer not a cent, the tecond, third, lifth and most of the fourth and sixth wards do not need it. Scatterei: as is the population of this city it is an outrsge to boiid the city for $100,000 or more for what is not needed. The common people, whom this movement will oppress the most should rise in their might anc put a stop to it. Tax Payer. Editor Courier: I am in favor of the city building water-works, I think large wells should be dug on the hills, and the entire people supplied withgo; d drinking water, and the city with water to put out fires. Our insuiance will be lower, and wlrat is a debt of a hundred thousand dollars tor a city like this? I hope to see jour paper, which I have read ever since it wa Btarted, advocate it.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News