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TULSA DAILY WOULD, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1010 tiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMHiiiiiiiiniiiniiMiiiiiiiiMiniiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiMiiiiiiiii " MM U I , ' , lllll IHIIIIIIIIlNIIIIIIII Mill Ml lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllllliill liiiiMiiij I in ' ' ' w"' ni'iMiiitiii iMiiiiiltilllllil!inMni.illlilUIUiiilllHllilllllHHIMlililliilMHlliiHlllllJ!IIMniNlllIill!M;iillillKii:iin;:.hi!lllhfU:ili: II I I lillli 1 I! I 111 I 111! 1 1 I I I I HI H ' ' " ' ' ai.llltlitlltllltlltlllM.tllltlltl.lllltMllltltltliltltlllll.lll.tllllllli111lllllllllillltfiiJll!IIIJIIIllIllltiilllIillll llllllllltllilllllllillllllllUIIJlllIJJiilliniiijHJIf If llllll Vote ave I II' j Nj isa ca csa i ) You, Mr. Voter and Mrs. Voter, are to decide Tulsa's fate today. Attempts have been made to cloud the issue, but it is clear and distinct Docs Tulsa Have Good Water, and if Not, Does it Need Good Water? No one bellows that the Arkansas river water is good. The report of the Engineers' club, which sought to discredit the Spavinaw plan, says that the Arkansas is unsuitable for domestic purposes two or three months of the year and is unfit as an industrial water six months ot the year. If it is unfit even pail of the time it is not a desirable source, for people must have water in their homes .'105 days ot the year, the Arkansas river being salty and disagreeable to taste at all times, must be supplemented bv bottled water, for which lulsans pay three-quarters of a million dollars annually and chemists have proved it unfit and unsafe to drink, being contaminated and containing ijpnoiu germs, industries pass up lulsa because the corrosive waters of the Arkansas make their expenses too great. Frisco shops will locate here if Tulsa gets Spavinaw water, but will not come if the bonds are defeated. The Is There Good Water at Spavinaw and Plenty of It? Every engineer who has investigated Spavinaw says there is water there sufficient foe a city of a quarter of a million, that it is ideal water for both drinking and industrial purposes. Hiram Phillips, brought here to knock the water bonds, said there was plenty of the purest water in the Spavinaw. The Engineers'Vlub, formed for the purpose of knocking the bonds, were forced to admit that enough water could be stored in the mammoth reservoir system to supply Tulsa for a period of three vears. The engineer of the state board of health declared bis investigation proved the water excellent as to quality and adequate for Tulsa's future needs. Can Tulsa Stand the Cost and is the Plan Practical? The city now is paying an average of 14 cents a thousand gallons for Arkansas river water. This costs the consumers $2G5,000 a year. Add to this the cost of bottled water and the total is in excess of $1,000,000 and the quality extremely poor. The wildest esti mate will not put the cost of Spavinaw water at this figure. The cost of Spavinaw water to produce is 3.9 cents per thousand gallons. This in a year on a basis of 10,000,000 gallons daily costs $U2,:J50. The cost of the bond issue will average yearly for the 25 years given to retire the bonds, $2.'J7,r00. This makes the total cost of the Spavinaw project only $370,850 a year less than one-third of what we are paying today and the water is fnfinitely better. Every engineer who has examined the Spavinaw project has declared that it is feasible. Kent & Hros., contractors, who build conduits, had a representative here who said that the plans and estimates for the con duit were correct. Arthur Frank, Swiss engineer of international reputation, who has built dams of all types, says the dam can be built easily within the estimates. The system of reservoirs and the gravity system of f luw to the city and the hydro-electric power plant at the dam, he declared to be practical. , t. ... ... .,, Is There Any Other Good Source as Cheap as Spavinaw? There is no other source that is adequate for the future Tulsa except Grand river. Shell creek was eliminated at the outset be cause it would not supply enough water even for the cityof -today and because it was rank poison in its qqrflilyfu The Arkansas river is not adequate in summer months, even lor the present rate of consumption, and it is out of the question to copsTr staying with the Arkan- sas. t.iranu river, on an airnne, is oniy lourieen mnes closer man ;-pavinaw, nut tne airline route to uraiut river is not suitable lor a pipe line on account of the many hills that would have to be crossed. The nearest point to which a pipeline could be built to the Grand river is where the Spavinaw line crosses it. This would save only three and one-half miles of concrete conduit. Grand river would have to be filtered as it is a muddy stream ten months of the year. A large dam, several times as large as that at Spavinaw would have to be built or else a series '(T power plants would have to be built which wmild consume an enormous amount ofuel. The extra cost of filtra tion and pumping from Grand river would amount to at least $200,000 a year. In twenty-five years this item alone would be more than the entire cost of the Spavinaw project. The sewage of thirteen large towns empty into the Grand river, while the Spavinaw is free from contamination. ,. ' Tulsa Must Secure Water from Spavinaw Without Delay VOTE "YES" FOR THE BONDS