Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1894, Page 7

OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU DAY OCTOBER 21 189 BOTH SIDES OF THE CANAL Matters Affecting the Proposition For and Against Are Here Presented. IS THE WATER SUPPLY SUFFICIENT It the Rivers that Are Depended On Wil Afford the Flow Needed, Ia the Price to Be Charged for Power Rensonab] OMAHA, Oct. 18.—A proposition s to be submitted to the voters of Douglas county at the general election to donate $1,000,000 in bonds to aid the corporation known ms the Omaha Canal and Power company to struct the so-called Platte river canal In this article I intend to point out certain defects in this scheme, and I shall show the following statements to be facts: First—That the water supply of the Platte tiver alone cannot be depended upon, for the feason that that stream frequently goes en- tirely dry between Kearney and Columbus. Second—That the two streams from which the Omaha Canal and Power company ex pect to get their water supply—namely the Loup and Elkhorn— are being rapidly tappe: by irrigators, and shall soon run dry for sev eral months each year When this oc and the day Is very near, there will no long be any supply of water for the proposed canal and Douglas county will find itself with a dry ditch and a shattered credit Third—It will be shown that the Omaha Canal and Power company are not comply- ing with the representations of the promo tors of that enterprise, but have submitted a proposition to build a canal with a capac. ity far inferior to the canal originally con- templated. That corporation now binds itself to construct a canal capable of furnish- fng but .42 of the amount of power origin- ally proposed, but .42 of the amount of power that its promoters have always represented themselves as able and willing to develop Fourth—It will be shown that prices de- manded for power delivered in Omaha South Oma nd in quantities of from borse power upward, are from 6.7 to 200 per cent in excess of the cost of steam power in these clties. And that the price asked for water power at Seymour park fs not only far in excess of the cost of water power in othe con- {of_the Omaha C 1dly down and permit t er to flow past them for the benefit of a real estate specu- lation at this end? 1t the promoters of the Omaha Canal and Power company really think this, then they but little understand the sentiment of the people of this state. It is useless for them point to their ditch as an irrigation scheme and endeavor in that way to win | sympathy and support is no A v ne PROPOSED ( ry thin subterfuge and will ANAL OF PACITY. pubished In this city, called of which Mr. R. B. Howell, the engineer the Omaba Canal and company, s the editor, published iths ago a lengthy aceount of ““The Omaha ( a.,' in which the following as- sertion wis made: “The head obtal at mour park, the terminus, exceeds 135 feet, which, toge with amount water to be delivere!, h will excead 1,500 cuble feet per second, will develop between 15,000 and 20,000 horse power for twenty-fonr hours per day. It is proposed to sell this power to manufacturing establishments at the rate of $15 per horse power per annum.” Briefly, this has been the ostensible plan nal and Power company. These are the figures 1o wh.ch the promoters refer ug, and this is the pabulum on which we have been fed, the bait that been hung on a glittering hook to attract sup- port and votes. Though they have not done 30 directly, yet fndirectly the varlous engi- neers in the employ of this company hav implied that this was the plan to be adopte Mr. Andrew Rosewater, however, was frank with the people of this county, and in his annual report of January 1, 1894, has shown that two propositions were being con- sidered—propositions that were widely dif- ferent in the results obtained. And, as a member of the citizens' committe which assisted in formwulating the present propo- sition he insisted that the cal company ba compelled to show its hand and declare specifically what it proposed to do. This they have done, and behold the result! Instead of a canal, with a continuous flow of 1,500 cublc feet per ses ond, they now only propose to bulld a canal with a capacity for a continuous flow of 750 cubic feet per second, and the use of ‘eser- voirs to conserve the night flow, glving an available supply at Seymour park of 1,800 cubic feet per second for ten hours per day and 308 days per year. According to the original scheme, it was proposed (o build a ditch that would furnish 18,750 mechanical horse-power continuously. According to the present proposition, it is agreed to build a ditch that shall furnish 22,500 mechanical horse-power for only ten hours per day, and 208 days per Now let us see how these two propositions compare. According to the original INFERIOR CA- A paper “Ir- " some m her the has scheme it was more | siiding scale from' $23 to $55 per horse power por year for only ten hours per day and 308 | sufficiently the rate on the | Ereatest days per year. This sliding scale of from $6 power delivered continuously in Omaha and South Omaha. Compare these figures and we see the hollowness of the claim of cheap power Cost of power in quantities of fifty horse- wer upward per horse-power per year i the basis of & continuous run Present cost of ateam power in Omaha and South Omaha.$21 16 to § Proposed q - cost in Omaha mah by Om and Power is at for one year I anal M to 1.0 st of ymour Bear in mind that these figures are for users of fifty horse and upward. To users of power in quantities of less than fifty horse power the canal proposition offers dis- tinct advantages over independent steam en gines but such such-users can undoubtedly rent powers from larger concerns at a less figure than offered by this proposition Indeed there are strong reasons to believe that a central steam plant could be built in the very heart of the city of Omaha without | the aid of a bonus at a cost of one-quarter of this ridiculous canal project, and could dis- tribute power by means of either electricity or compressed air to any point within the limits of either Omaha or South Omaha at a cost that would drive the Omaha Canal and Power company out of the field Again, how many factories are going to | buy power of a concern that would compel them to stand idle fourteen hours out of every twenty-four and one day out of every week? A few perhaps. But how about the mammoth flouring mills, the great producers of cereal productsthe paper mills, and sugar factories that we are told are going to fall over each other in a desperate scramble to locate here tories of that class must needs operate day and night, Sundays and week days, for them there is no ation of labor. GIGANTIC REAL ESTATE SPECULATIO The actual truth is that the real moving spirits of the Omaha Canal and Power com- pany have no faith in their enterprise, ex- cept In so far as they see an opportunity for a real estate speculation, For weeks the individuals of that com- pany have been quietly picking up options 1 estate in the nefghborhood of Seymour They ask Douglas county to give them $1,000,000 to aid their private speculative scheme. At least two of the leading spirits in this enterprise have been guilty of such statements as this: “We do not care if the canal scheme §s not a success, we do not care If the water s ever turned on. If we can create a boom that is all we wish Voters of Douglas county, it is an easy thing to play roulette so long as an accom- ower il 1.0 rest the | to $157 per horse | the no one but engineers wnderstand this subject to misunderstan little elique the canaly shown figures and from comparisons whie to make. posing disgung, alfeged it ding which and results is mo 1 h, it Yet exists we the among op- are deduced unfair 1s st The charges of the company wers based on the calculalipfs of the engincers who made the reportd Many thou usands of dollars were spent in thfs way and the con ness mey s If the servative b with the resu higher than those of 'of ish must be the comp attract manufacturers rrdm are perfectly charges are tier cities, any which other satisfled 50 much how fool- hopes to localities. As a matter of fact the charges will be from e-third to one-halt W « When you hear th reflect in what stories place the ald of the greatest country, have been calr tails for two years past There has be so far as flow of wa horse power are conc June. Do not be And whatever is s do not doubt its gentle dec d pract o cfpakers position it st of steas Just their who, ring ski lating on proposit e and develo rned, That sfved cone e bility m power, stop and groundless with the Il of the fon made pment of was last at point rning the canal, A meeting will soon be held in this city in which every phase of the project will' be explained and to which every doubter as to its practicability will be cordially fnvited to attend. The only question is canal and prosperity? Do you want R. B. PRA the ATTIE. JOHNTHE AGCRESSOR | called from , no | (Continued from First Page.) Kinds, even the smallest gun boats, will be the sev seaports to unite with Admiral Ting's forces in protecting the approach of the lar, Yang squadron, the Ka Huan-Ti are all ready, Yuen and Tsing-Yus the ships of the and adding them to th are under discussion to Tien-Tsin and Peking cruisers belonging to the Nan- Na-Sheng and 0 four formidable torpedo boats, the Lay-Yuen, Tey-Yuen, ' -Chal al Proposals fol e Pel-Yang Three su- r arming *hina Merchants company squadron The Japanese clerk of the ordnance de- partment in Tien-Tsin was executed on Sep- tember 4. an English newspaper tion by source of considerable e saying that his mbarrassmen He Wwas accused of no crime, but accounts for his execu- existence w a 1t to offt- clals who ought to have been alive to the danger of having such a person in the de: partment at a time when the utmost vigi- lance should have been used to prevent infor- mation from leaking out in any way. The public naval successes attention from have dive: the militar rted the y move- ments in northern Corea, and little has been When you can dress well at a nominal cost. | Did you know it was possible to B g et an excellent usiness Suit Made to Order for $20.007? Imported Fabrics at $25—g30—¢ Did you know that you can have a serviceable pair ot Trousers Made to Order for $5.007? The choicest designs at $6—7—- If our assortment does not please you—you can't be pleased. Your name for Samples, please! CITY OFFICIAL N OTICES. AN \Q@% \ CITY OFFICIAL NOTICES. 207 South 1I5th S *. CITY OFFICIAL NOTICES. N COUNCIL AS A BOAR 1ZATION. 0 the owners of the lots, real estate abutting on or streets, avenues or alleys D OF of lots and the or adjac herein nt named TICE OF THE SITTING OF THE CIT QUAL- to Continued. Continu Lot 12, $12.92, Lot 14 Lot 18 Lot 17, block 2, Kilby Lot 18 block 2, Kilby block 2 Kilbs block 2, K Lot 20, o v Second District enter Third Di inton, Northwest corner 10th and lct—Northeast corner 13th and piiaurth District—Northeast corner 8th and fic Fifth Hickory Sixth' District—Northwest corner 0th and | Baneroft venth ehth 1 ter, modating friend stands ready to advance the stakes. Are you going to play the role of that accommodating friend? CURTISS C. TURNER IN FAVOR OF TF block 2, Kilby Plac To cover the ‘cost of water conne | In street improvement districts Nos. 682 and [ 584, which cost it is proposed, by a report | duly adopted by the city council, to assess | on the Iots to which the connections were made, as follows Disfrict No, 68 Lot 17, block Lot 18, block heard respecting the progress of the Japan ese army since the capture of Phyong Yang was announced. Even the details of that important event are few and unsatis- factory. No conclusive statement as to the strength of the Chinese troops engaged has been published, and no official attempt made to reconcile the conflicting estimates of va- rious generals, who allow a speculative range of from 12,000 to 40,000. The lower figure Is undoubtedly the most nearly accurate. As re- gards the number of prisoners taken the discrepancies are bewildering. At first it was fixed at 14,000, but later has steadily grown smaller, until now only some hun- dreds are claimed v ATE OF CHINESE A MYSTERY. o the question what became of the main body no sufficient answer was vouchsafed That the army was practically wiped out of existence can scarcely ‘be disputed. That it 15 held captive by the Japanese seems evi- dent from the completéuess with which it was surrounded. Buf inquirers are left in ignorance on this point. No light is given by Japanese correspandents, who, though permitting considerable latitude, have not been privileged to approach the quarters of | the captives. The government shows no de- canal, but said that the conditions under | 8ire to conceal facis, But appears to have which the work was to bo done were partic- | Yery scant information concerning matters ularly favorable, | of ‘much moment. Even with the aid of These facts have been made public so|every official dispatch, thus far recelved at often that an apology would be due the | Tokio it is impossible (o compile anything readers it it were not for the fact that cér- | Like an exhaustive account of the Plyong- tain persons persistently go about the city | YANg campaign. None of the representa- spreading reports against the feasibility of | tives of foreign governments are allowed to he canal, and occasionally inserting their [ 2ccompany the army. 0 misrepresentations in the newspapers. The| The list of Japanese losses of Phyong- latest rumor that has been set afloat by | Yang is now made up. The officers killed Bartlett's addl- these busybodies is that irrigation will bs | Outright were none higher than captains of | tion, $31875. On the real estate hoth practiced to such an extent in the next fow | infantry. One hundred and ffty-four non- | sides of Bird strect from Leavenworth stroet years that the body of water in the Platte, | commissioned officers were also Killed, | t L,lm_lwn vnl-m‘u- ':( ',,f‘,”'f;.m',‘..'.‘ b Blkhorn and Loup will be greatly depleted | Twenty-six officers were wounded, the high- | ! n;}:;g";fl’ Brosxin Dol T n...»k'f-n‘-u 5 and not enough Will remain to supply the |est, a major of ariillery, and 3§1 noncom- | fOrting to the wsuml scaling buck process Omaha canal. As a matter of fact, missioned " officers and’ privates; missing, | block at the rate of $0.6518 per foot. amount of water now taken from those rivers | forty. To Cover the cost of opening and extend- for irrigation purposes is considerable, and | Telegrams from the front state that the | ing 15th street from Vinton street south to propositions to vote irrigation bonds have re- | pursuit of the Chinese fugitives was furi- | the eity limits, amounting to the sum of cently been defeated in Eiyria, Columbus, |ously continued unl the Japanese cavalry | $1641L00 which sum it is proposed. by o Ord and Sumter. But as to the water sup- [ reached Kasan, a town on the northwestern [Lidng ‘n";“m“h‘ It aath o botE MiEn Tof ply of the proposed canal: inlet of the Yellow sea. Straggling rem- | R=ics% on e real cesfate on hoth eides of WHERE THE WATER COMES FROM. |mants of the defeated S had ‘passed in | iimit, 5 foligwen: T s ; - water | advance over the road to Viju, on the fron- | On 15, 8. B. Rogers plat of of Oka- _the peband Spon three rivers for OUr WALE | iar, ‘and comparatively fow Drisoners wers | homa tyets 135 foth S0 on west 3 south | flood season is in June and July. The Loup | piliee, and at “”{;“_,""" i The wroob | Rogers'” plat of Okahoma, $158.82; on vest | #4100 8 biock 12 A iy TS 18 a perennial stream, and has about the | 1 BUn8 were picked up, making the whole | ja98prc, 5 20, (sub 1) section 34-15-13, | {51 108 3" ploek 108, nth District same flow of water the year ‘round. The | MUmber of fleld pieces seized in the cam- | 7 foet b feet of that part west of t'5, block 12, 8. enworth, Elkhorn river is a flood stream In *he spring- "'.'"l';""‘l Losty oRctisr mlt ety mountain | {6y wineet oeex laie msotion sEiBIN rs, PRI R RL LRI de oS riesty i . Dates | Krupps and four Gatlings 0; west 132 feet of that part_east of 16 % ind 2t} s fenaIihe onn GuaterniHvare. 5 Tho. Liatte | " Scouts have been sent forward as far as | street of tax It 31, Section 15 13, iz i street between during the latter part of August, in Sepiem. | CLOMEJU, about Aifty miles cast of the Yellow | on the west side of 16th strcet,’ tween - and Half ard. ¢ 2y (Bl river, and a large Jap: body was ex- | Vinton street and Spring street, and on the FIFTH WARD, ber. October and Into November, until the | /00, GUC, £ 1At quarters at Kasan before de of 16th strect on the north 200 feet First District—Southeast corner 16th suows begla to fall upon the mountains agafn, | fITto0 10 THKE Wb auarters a Doints to | ©f West half of lot 46, in S. 1. Rogers’ plat Mt e So we throw the Platte out entirely and con- | K100 10 ot Town in Ohmose toritor | of Okahoma, at the rate of $2.00 per front Second District der only the Loups and the Elkhorn, A | Kiulin, a fortifled town in Chinese territory. | foo; and the remaining” part of 1th yoar ago In October Mr. Andrew Rosewater | 5 the scene of the next battle, provided the | sirect ‘Detween Vinton strect and tax ot aadiMr R B! Howsll mads tWo Independent present line of march is continued. i\'»‘ 31-1 at the rate of $0.89501 per front gaugings of the Platte river and the Elkhorn FRELING OF THE COREA? The and in these two stroams Mr. Rosewater | While the masses of the Corean people [\, The above mentlaned us per foot front to found flowing at that time 2,600 cubic feet{appear indifferent to the struggle in the | pi.i ‘process in depth from the street, as of water per second, and Mr. Howell, from | north, the majority of the higher class living | follows: Where the lots front on street his caleulation, found 2,400 cubic feet per | in the districts recently held by the Chinese | the depth of one lof, and where lots lay second. This year Mr. Rosewater was sent | are Inclined to the side of China. Thus far | parallel with 16th street the depth of two to gauge these streams by the city council, | they have made a feeble and irregular effort and Mr. House was sent by the county com- | t0_annoy the Japanese troops, and though missioners. Both of them found between | POWerless to offer effective opposition, they 1,400 and 1,600 cubic feet per second In the | have at least succeeded in preventing the combined streams. The oldest residents of | dissemination of the king's proclamation in Fremont in 1893 sald that the Platte was | favor of his new allies. But in the regions toliee e be, except once, in the previous twenty years, | Since the Ist of September a very different This year, of course, {5 an exceptional year, | SPIlt prevaits. The orderly conduct of the such as has never been experienced in (he | [TOODS, their respect for private property, and situated in whole or in part within of the districts herein sp You and each of you a notifled that the city council of the city of Omaha will sit as oard of equalization in com- ittee rool A, In the city hall, Omaha ebraska, on Friday, the 3th day of Oc-| tober, 1894, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 5 ¢ ck m., for the purpose of considering and equalizing the proposed levy of special taxes | and assessments as shown by “Propos Plan of Assessment” now on file in e of the city clerk, and ¢ ecting errors therein, and of heari all plaints that the ¢ ners of and taxed may essments v o cover sments duly \d o be de and now completed, as follows ‘0 cover the cost of opening avenue from Bancroft street {o park, amounting to the sum o which sum it is proposed, by a repc adopted by the city council, to assess follow On sub lot 18 On west 137 ection 35-15-13, 1% of n W part taken any proposed to furnish each y Powerx24 hoursx365 days—164 chanical horse-power hours According to the present proposition it is only proposed to furnish each year 22,500 horse-powerx10 hoursx308 days—69,300,000 mechanical Lorse-power hours. In other words, instead of the great pov that was to “rival to cast Minne- apolis, Holyoke and other upstart power cen ters into the shade, we find that the promo tors of this scheme have backed down, and now only offer us 42 per cent of the power that they h always represented them selves to be able and willing to develop. It & matter of record, however, that the have not diminished the size of the bonus fc which they ask It 8o happens that there is a good reason for this ignominious backdown, and it lies in the fact that all of the reports of engi- | neers have, until within three months, been based on a continuous flow of 3,000 cubic 1 ond in the Platte and Elkhorn rivers report to the county commissioners September Mr. Andrew Rosewater has shown that this assumption was 100 per cent in excess of the truth, and that the actual combined flow of these two streams was, at that time, but 1,423 cubic fect per second. Immediately on the recefpt of this report consternation spreads among the canal pro- moters. They abandon their original inten- tion of bullding a really great power, and de- cide to cut down their scheme to 42 per cent its former proportions, without, however, cutting down their demands for a subsidy a single dollar. It the engineers who have endorsed scheme in such unqualified terms are nearer the truth in their other estimates and opinions than they were in their estimate of the minimum flow of the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, then what are those estimates and opinfons worth? RA FOR POWER EXCEED STEAM POWER. Turning again to “Irrigation,” the paper edited by Mr. R. B. Howell, (he chief en- gineer of the Omaha Canal and Power com- pany, we find under the head of “The Omaha Canal” this statement: ‘“'Between 15,000 and 20,000 horse-power will be devel oped for twenty-four hours per day. It is proposed to sell this power to manufacturing establishments at the rate of about $15 per annum Had the canal company stuck to this they uld have been somewhere near the mark “cheap power.” But let us sce In the proposition submitted the price offered is for water power at Sey mour park. This {5 phaced at $18 per horse-power for ten hours per day and 308 lays per year. localities, but is actually greater than the cost of steam power (n this city PLATTE RIVER DRY. It s a well known fact that the Platte yiver is practically dry, at the present time, trom Columbus west many miles, and that it has been wholly dry from Columbus to Kear- ney for the past two months. This is not an unusual occurrence, shown by avitts in my possession which are published here for lack space, These afidavits arc have lived on t yorrs, and who assert dry at Columbus as often every three, and that it b at Kearney quite as often RESULT OF IRRIGATION From the afidavits it is evident reliance can be placed on the How Platte river alone. The Loup and Elkhorn are the sole sources from which the Omaha Canal and Pow mpany can_expect 1o get thelr water sup City Engineer Rosewater has shown the low water flow of these streams last August was, in cubic fect per nd follows Platte at Frement (same as Loup at Columbus) s e Elkhorn at Arlington ... ar 18,760 horse- 30,000 mechan “tions | District—Northeast corner §th and District—Northeast corner-6th and £ PROPOSITION, strict—Northwest corner 5th and S0 2nd addition i 2nd addition, 2nd adddit 2nd add 2nd addition, 2nd addition; Reasons Why the Project Seems Feasible and Deserving of Support OMAHA, Oct. 19.—To the Editor of The Bee: It seems strange that at this stage of | the discussion of the Platte canal it | should be necessary to revert to the prac- ticability of the project. The best efforts of | several local engineers were put forth upon the surveys and upon the question of water supply. These gentlemen worked independ- ently, and yet their reports tallied in all important details, Then Mr. Fanning of Minneapolis, than whom there is no greater authority on the subject of water supply, as related to engineering, was brought in. The canal was nothing to b any more than n engineering enterprise. He was pald his alary and made his report. If it was un- favorable he got Lis money just the same. That report was made. It not only unhes tatingly endorsed the practicability of the Shull's Shull's block 16, Shull's Lot 11, block 15 Lot 12, block 16 ' Lot 13 k 16, Shull® Dist (8 Lot 12, block Lot 13 block Lot 15, block Lot 17, block Lot 18 block 2, Kilby Place. Lot 10, block 2. Kilby Place, Lot 2, ‘block 3, Crescent Park, $13.14 Lot 6 block 4, Crescent Park, $1 Lot & block 3 cent Park, $13.13 o cover the £ laying artifictal stone | Slewnlks, amounting to the sum of i which sum it is proposed, by a repc 35-15-18, | by the city council, to assess the p ty adjoining the walks laid, follows: Lot 7, block 208%, city, $42.23 N 87 feet S 122 feet lot 2, block 3, Hillside SECOND WARD. et District—Southeast corner 16th and Leavenworth Second District Mason. Third District—) Poppleton avenue. Fourth Distri Pierce Fifth Center, Sixth Willlam Seventh District | and Aartha Eichth District ar(hia Ninth District Valley Tenth nton Eley and v as is and of | the any comi- s Northwest corner 19th and 20th and Southeast corner 16th and | s $1391. not river T srthwest corner i Kilby P by Kilby Place, Kilby Place, Kilby Place, £21.61 £ 21 21 men who for thirty that river go as one ye ymes nearl sworn to by Platte river ve 51 51 51 N District—Northeast corner 16th and is H District—Southeast and 16tk Northeast corner 20th and corner 17th Northwest corner t duly as that of no M the 1, tax lot 12, section Northwest corner 13th and as Southeast corner 20th and st feet of south 318 District K318, % for feot of tax nth corner 2ith \ton n 3 District—North of section 3 stre Jowery public 3, s), Hill, $87.5 Lot b, $90.56, Lot THIRD WARD block 4. District—Northeast corner 14th and sec us the cost of opening 33rd street addition No. 3, | pjret 4 from Leavenworth street 1o Poppleton ave- nue, amounting to the sum of 32,889, which sum it is proposed, by a report duly adopted by the city council, to assess as follows: On west 150 feet lot 11, Bartletd's addition, 00; on we 12, Bartlett's ad: Qition, & feet lot 14, Clifton Place, $220.00; on east 48% feet lot 14, block 14, Housels & Stebbins' subdivision, $57.00; o east i1; feet Tot 14, Block 15, Housels & Stebbins® subdiviston, $57.00; on the east 2§ feet of west 40 feet lot 16 block §, ond ", block f, Kountze's 4th supplemen- dition, $59.20. lot 10, 'block B, ntary addition, $29. Lot i1, block 6, F mentary’ addition,’ §38 N t lot 16, block ntary addition, $356 Lot 20, Omaha Bldg and Saving tion addition, $25.33 Lot 2. Omiaha Ridg and Saving assocla- | tion addition, $25.33 Lot 22, Omaha Bldg and Saving s tlon addition, $25.34 % 1ot 9, Block 4, Parker's addition, Lot 6, block 8, Parker's addition, §7i Lot 3, block 8, Parker's addition, $59.60 1 Tot 4, block & Parker's addition, $30.13 block 1, Shinn's addition, $10.70 t 1ot Z block 7, E. V. Smith's addi- 2 BV . E. V. Smith's addition, Lot 7, ‘block 3, 8 Rogers, §79.90. Lot 8 block 4, §. E. Rogers, $6.76 feet lot' 9, blick 3, S. Roge Kountze & Ruth's addi- District—Southwest corner 15th and rd District pitol avenue Fourth District Chicago. Fifth District Burt Sixth Jackson Seventh District and Douglas | _Eighth District | capitol avenue. Ninth District Chicago. Tenth Tarnam Northwest corner Mth and Kountz 0. s 4th supple ith Southeast corner 14th and Total flow .. Mr. Rosewater further states in the same report that'm ‘“constant flow ot prese conditions can be..depended from the Loup Fork and Eikhorn rivers. This Is an undoubted fact, but is it that “‘present eonditions’’ shall endure? Lot us seey ¥ The Loup river and its tributarfes are among the best streams for the purpose of trrigation - within the stato of Nebraska Theso streams are comparatively free from serious fluctuations, for what reason 1 will not undertake to Say. They never disappear like the Platte and Republican rivers; they seldom flood the valleys, but maintain a fairly uniform flow throughout the entire year. It is stated on good authority that the flow of the Loup at Columbus was, during the low water last August, about 1,200 cubic feet per socond With the aid of the greater volume that flows in the spring and early summer it is probablo that the total flow of this stream and its tributaries would be sufficient to irei gato 400,000 acres of land, though this esti mate requires that the utmost skill be used in the design of the irrigation works, and the Rreatest economy exercised in the distribu tion of water, and that the seepage flow be again utilized to the fullest practical extent Yet in the valley of the Loup and it |day tributaries, there are no less than 750,000 IOr a continuous run this would be at the acres of good, broad, level, bottom lands|rate of about $51 per year, or 4.4 times as that need irrigation great as the price that the writer in “Irri- Where the water supply is sufficient gation” has stated would ba charged. Fifty- gation ‘works can be cheaply constructed. The | One dollars per horse-power per year is 64 farmers and business men of those valleys [PeT cent ln excoss of the cost of steam are allve to the situation and irrigation is | POWET to the St Railway company, wh the one subject uppermost in their minds to- [ FUR Is practicaliy continuous. Fifty-one dol- day. That this is so will ba evinced by |!ars per year is 4 per cent in excess of the the following facts, of which I have knowl- | €08t 0f steam power to the Woodman Lin- edge sced Ol works, whose run is continuous A ditch is already well advanced at North [ Bight and day. Fifty-one dol per horse Loup to Irrigate from 15,000 to 20,000 acres of | POWEF 18 40 per cent in excess of the cost land. A ditch of some thirty-five or forty | Of Steam power at the Walnut Hill station miles in length is being constroeted in Cus. | °f the Water Works company. Fifty-one ter county on the Middle Loup river to ire(- | 3011ars per horse power per year is 140 per gate from 30,000 to 40,000 acres of land eent in of the cost of steam power These two ditches are ecxpected to be in |t the Florence pumping station, and at all operation mext year. Companies have been supple- ith | Northwest corner 16th and * Kountze's District—Northe corner 12th and this associa- no Southwest corner 11th likely Northwest corner 10th and Northwest socia- | er 12th and 80, District—Southeast corner 9th and OS! o FOURTH WARD. hetigs () First District—Northeast corner 18th and Davenport Second Distriet—Northeast corner 2nd and Dodge. Third District—Northeast corner 25th and Davenport, Fourth District—Northeast 25th and Farnam Fifth District—Nocthwest corner 18th and Douglas, Sixth District—South Smith's addition, % 1ot 3, block Fs corner st corner 18th and 18th ney, be- 8t 3. St o Northwest corner w District avenu lowest are further notificd that posed Plans of Assessment’ ar jeet to the inspection and examination of any of the owners of said lots, parts of lots | or ‘pieces of | estate, or the inspection or examination or any othér person Interested in sald propesed assessment, at the office of | the city clerk, and that by a report of a committee of ‘said council duly adopted it is proposed that unless for good and sufm- cient cause it may be otherwise ordered and determined that the cost of said in | provements respectively be assessed on the several lots, parts of 1ots and pieces of real estate as shown by said proposed plans of assessment 1 and each of you are hereby notifl to appear before sald Board of Equaliza- tion, at the time and place above specifiad, to make any complaint, statement or ch: jection desire concerning any of said vies and assessments of special tax JOHN T. EVANS, City Clerk, 18, 1894 said Lese now sub- and Southeast corner 16th and District—Southeast corner 18th and Ohio. Fourth District—Southeast corner 16th and Grace Fifth District—Southwest Burdette Sixth Distriot arles enth District—Southeast Charles. SIXTH WARD District—Northwest corner 30th and venu A2nd corner 45th and k3 bove mentioned us per foot front to corner 19th and ¥ Northwest corner 19th and corner 18th and r the cost of widening 19th street from Castellar street to Bancroft stre amounting to the sum of 62866 which sum it is proposed, by a report duly adopted by the city council, to assess on the real estite on both sides of 19th street, from Center street to Eim street, as follows: On lot 4, block M, Improvement associa- tion addition, 50 pe cent of judgment, $32434; on Dblock 14, Improvement Associa’ tion addition 1), adjoining 19th First Southwest corner e, Third District ant ourth District—Southeast corner 2ith and Manderson Fifth District Northeast Omaha, Neb,, Oct Tioip LaT e 019-078s Northeast corner 2ith and of the Water Works pumping stations the | tormed and surveys made for other ditches, [ JUD 18 continuous night and day and seven lays in the week the year around. Yet the rate of §51 per horse power per year, on the basis of a continuous run, is the lowest rate ered by company, and even for Seymour park and not for Omaha or uth Omaha v, let us with the may be as follows ¥rom Hawle miles. From Taylor to Burwell From Burwell to Ord. Near Fullerton, From Genoa to Columbus. On the Middie Loup, in Sherman county, | precinct bonds in the sum of §24,000, have been recently voted to aid this enterprise That which {s true of the Loup is equally true of the Elkborn Ircigation is being pushed on that str in Holt county, and it will soon be lar. diminished in volume by the up-stream ditehes Now it s often stated that the water from irrikation works returns by seepage to the parent stream This Is only partially true; a small per centage does return, only to be used again in sccpage ditches. No fact is better tablished than the fact that wherever tensivo irrigation is practiced the streams ultimately run dry during the greater part of the irrigation season. I have before me a letter dated September 26, 1894, from the assistant state engineer of Porter J. Preston, in which he says ““The amount of water disc harged into th Platte (by the Cache lu Poudre river) at the ordinary low water stage during the irriga tion season is practically nothing." That this is true of irrigation streams generally can be seen by turning to the state ment of Major J. W. Powell, late of the United States geological survey, given before the committee on irrigation of the hous of ropresentatives on March 1, 1890 The re. port reads as follows Major Powell-Wh (of a stream) for the § gation or for power 1 to the channel it is largely used. Chairman—That |s the same rule in d 1o irrigation; they take it out and devote It Lo frrigation purposes and return . Blaine county, east twenty T water Is taken out of slack wat the water is re but in the case of i it, 50 1t s left in the channel | Major Powell never returned The Chairman Major Powell heavens? It is unnecessary to multiply testimony These two statements establish the fact that extensive brrigation ultimately exhausts the | reams. In this way the waters of the Loup river shall be exhausted within a very short \ of years, for the farmers and business men of ‘the Loup river country are united (n the belief that they must have irrigation or else farm at a loss. The experience of t last year has demonstrated to all that which many have long believed. With only suf- elent water to irrigate about one-halt of :he bottom lands, does any one (magine that ho peaple of these valleys are going to sit But the greater part Is It is It s to | | son of the Omaha c figu termed how s these figures on water power “natural water com. in power para what centers. In 1880 the ination of census bureau made an the water power of the United States, and the figures given in the table below, excepting the figures concerning the Omaha canal, are taken therefrom. In order to make an intelligent nal with other powers is has been reganded as operating continu usly twenty-four hours per day, and the figures given are on that basis. It might be added here that this is the only rational bas's on which to discuss its value. All other estimates are irregular and misleading exam compari Name of Water Turner's Falls Holyoke Wis)) At Lawrence, Mass., the power was stated be 11,000 gross for sixteen hours per day and the eost $14.08 per horse power year, which is equivalent to $21.12 per year for a twenty-four-hour run The power at Lowell is 1,845 gross for fif- \ hours per day. The cost was not The statements Minneapolis were incomplete. In the table we have the means of mak ing an actual comparison of the value of the Omaha canal with other powers. We see that it is mot such an extraordinary large power as its promoters have represented And we also see that the cost of the water power which the Omaha Canal and Power company proposes to furnish is all the way from two and four-tenths to Afty-one times as great s the cost of water power in the T parts of the country. Can that eompany offer any reasonable explanation of this? When power is to be transmitted into Omaha or South Omaha it I found that the cost rapidly increases, varylug thea on a determined concerning the power at this rate | state before The canal as proposed Is to deliver 1,500 cubic feet of water per second for ten hours a day. This would require a flow of cubic feet per second for twenty-four hours er day, that is, the flow for twenty-four hours will be stored 0 as to be used dur- | ing the ten hours. Therefore, in 1893, there was mnearly four times as much water as would be required, and in 1894 nearly twice as much water as would be required, so that i there were no other conditions, the ques tion of water supply wou.d be considered set- tled beyond a question of doubt But it Is urged that we may expect a deple tion of this water supply in ire years from its use for irrigation purposes. As we have said the Loup and Elkhorn are alone onsidered. Therefore, whatever water |s | used for irrigation that would be taken from the canal supply would be used in Nebraska along the Loup and along the Elkhorn. The Zlkhorn and Loup valleys have been settled for twenty-five years, and today there is | not a single canal that is taking water from | these streams for irrigation purposes. It is true that they are now, because of this late drouth, discussing the advisability of irriga- tion and proposing th: of the water in manner, but discussion and action are | two different matters. Irrigation, if it ever will be practiced for three months two of which are June and July, when the Platte is at Its fullest. First, because the localities are in the semi-humid regions, and they have about twenty-four Inches of rain- fall_annually, and it requires about twenty- four inches for crops. In the next place, a large portion of the water that is put up: the land will return to the river. Only tha | which s absorbed will not return. Prob- bly 60 per cent will return to the river | Now, presuming that they do irrigate to a considerable extent, which 1s not likely, the major portion of this water will be |used during June ard July when all the | Loup water could be spared because then | the Platte is in flood. As the Platte begins go down, they would cease to use the | water in the Loup regions for irrigation pur poses, 50 that the Loups are virtually sub ject to the canal. But the law of appropria tion in this state is to the effect that th first in time is the Arst in right. Thi Omaha canal has already filed upon the waters of these streams, and if built, ft makes no difference how many canals are built hereafter, it has the first right to the water, and it must be served first and they afterward. CONCERNING COST OF POWER Thero is also more or less talk concerning | the relative cost of steam power and the | Agures agreed upon by the canal company and the county commissioners. This involye sots of conditions so different that r nd comparison Is possible, and certain use y the promptness of the eir payments for all supplies, have rapidly won the favor of the populace. noss has sprung up aj nd But a feeling of genuine friendli- especially among the middle class of Coreans along the line of march. The only evidence of active hos- tility are exhibited by the party of Togatukl, whose revolt in July last was the pretext for China interfering in Cor small disturbances hav rean affairs. e been Several fomented by the leaders of this association, but It Is sup- posed that thefr proce quire serious attention. The plans for politic in Corea, many of whiel tion under Japanese i after the dismissal of are mow part of the new govern aro again engaged in their struggles for supremacy th virtually suspended | dificulty of securing will socle sedings 1 and h were put nfluence imi he Ming inited ment. Rival contentions, B owing action not re 1 reform | in opera- mediately ministry, to the on the factions and in \ovement inaugurated by the Japanese is temporarily lost sight of. The mos! t.important improve- ments in national administration are secured and several Iniquitc for the plated d socia¥ a in Japanese amelioration s Echeme it us laws are abolished; but contem- may be necessary to wait unul throughout the king- dom order is thoroughly Donations of food am poor of Seoul wre continued Janese authorities in tigation has shown paupers were. ir wants being supplied at an outlay of | 000 yen French residents learn of the Villemonte and Robinet to the establishment of Pather Joseau dered by Chinese sold¥ two priests escaped to were djscovered in ex safety’ of restored o -money 10 that city. T that on S in utter de the east two who were re ors near As: the mounta treme destit the dis- by the *olice in ptember stitution jolee to missionaries tached mur The and by an ins, ution native Christlans a mouth after the destruc- tion of their mission the French gunboat The Chinese wrecked early T transpe in Septe 1,000 troops from Ching Kiang to Formosa. | Two hundred were dro soldiers murdered the reaching shore in rev ment of the ship. Although the Japanese government refused | nge for th They nstant t, the Che mber while wned The tain and were safoly to Chemulpo and there taken on board | guided ean, was carrying surviving crew on smanage to disclose any damaging facts against Brit ish Admiral Fremantle his actions are be ginning to be sharply ecriticized throughout Japan, even by British engagement at Yashan, crew of the Chinese mal rosidents. in July ot-war, Kw n After the last, the ang Yel abandoned their ship and tock refuge on a Corean island. It emantle sent 1 and caused them has Ch that they Javan. would not been discove to be taken again serve sred to back after exacting from them a promise | against that | one of hix vessels for these { | | (exoemt lot street, 50 per cent of ard allowed by the Property adjoining, amour on the west sid both sides of 19th street to Bancroft street, and fr to Castellar streef, at th nt foot, according 1 s in depth from the street, street lots Where lots fr of one lot ot exceeding alley. To cover the cost of gr Half ioward strect in gradin district ing 1o the sum of $5,960.8 I8 proposed, by a eity council, to assess on t both sides of Half Howal worth street pro r Aepth from street district created ing back pro To cover th street from Poppl averue, amounting to which sum it is proposed, adopted by the city coun: the real estate on both si from Poppleton avenue to nue, pro rata per foot fre to the usunl from the str $0 3882 cost ot two lots To cover the half cost of grading Woolworth Gth which sum adopted by al estate from )ro rata per front Tom strect back p ent mou it is p the clty council on both sides of Woolwo 2nd street to 6th street foot frontage, in depth according to the usual sc cess. Rate per foot, $0.39 To cov in sewer district No sum of $1,128.34, by a report dufy cil, to assess on aistrict adjoining foot frontage, ace ng bick process in as per district created ner lots having a sew shall be assessed for on Rate per foot To cover the cost of str improvement and 584, which cost rt_duly adopted wssess on {he prop were m N from 2nd to the by a re to street ort 201 which sun dopte th idd ling t it by rty is i the ections 2 District Lot 6, bl District No. Lot 16, block Lot 1T block Lot 18] block 15, Lot 2, bloek 16, Lot 9, block 16 oot 11, block 16, Lot 12, block 16 District No. 584 Lot 1, block 8, Crescent ¥ Lot 5, block 8§ Lot 7, block 8, © o Shull's Shull's clty, o82 Shull's Shull's Shull's the appr; of 19th stre tellar street to Bancroft street . of $1.00 per front fool; on the real estate on Elm street Mer of per the sum of $342.84, by Bewer the us the that « fron frontage ping t, from m ¢ o rate ) the i nt and ading o No. 14 which eport duly adopted by h. mount isers to fr at 1 th where parallel with street to the depth of two 34th of on the 1al scal amount real estate on 1 street to Le foot fr as p rding to the usual s foot, of grading on avenue to Wool of §: a report to assess on | ith st olworth according sealing back process in depth ate sum by oil i W g of duiy ssess on the r rth ayv saling 9443, r the cost of constructing m it th 1 esta nger ropo city « which llows na addition nd additon, Shull's 2nd additio Shull's 2nd addition, $9 85 addit nd addit nd addit nue city grading al $0.300745 1uly rof ’t str [ sew ar the ¢ 8986, $9.86 . $10.44. n,' $10.44 m, $10.44 n, $10.4 the $1,725.00; $0.42088 street Leavenwarth it the ELECTION PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR Proclamation and notice to the electors and legal voters of the city of Omaha of a general city election” of the city of hia to be held on Tuesday, the sixth of November, 1891, for the purpose of cting one city ‘clerk to serve from the ay in"January, 189, to fill uncx pired term, ‘and one city’ councilman from each ward' of the city; also proclamation notice of submission to the electors and legal voters of the city of Omaha of the question of Issuing thé bonds of the ity of Omaha in the sum of seventy-fi thousand dollars (375,000 to pay for th cost of paving, repaving or macadamizing the intersections of streets and spaces op posite alleys in sald city and to pay the ith th lot ro- | amounting to the is proposed, coun- sald cost of paving in front of real estate not | subject to ssment of special taxes for paving pur, ) the Electors City of Omaha I, George P. Bemis, may Omaha, do issue this, my ¢ vested In o and Legal Voters of t * of the city of clamation, and 18 such mayor, do notice to the electors and of the city of Omaha that a general election will be held in said city on Tuesday, the sixth day of November, 1894, for the purpose of electing one city clerk t serve from the first Tuesday in January, 1895, to fill unexpire and one ¢ man from each ward of the purpose of sul and legal voters the question and tion following, to-wi “Shall bonds of the sum of seventy-fiy 000) be issued for the purpe cost of paving, repaving the intersections of street opposite alleys In said city, cost of paving in front of subject to assessment of paving purposes, satd bonds to run not mor than twenty (20) years, and to bear intercat | payable semi-annually at a rate not exceed- | ing five (5) per cent per annum, with pons attached, to be called ‘Paving Bonds,' | and not to bé sold for than par | proceeds of which shall be used for no other purpose than paying the cost of paving, re- | paving or macadamizing the intersections of | treets and spaces opposite alleys in said ¥, or In front of real estate not subject to ‘assessment of special taxes for paving purposes 7 | pr »f Omaha i lollars (§75, of paying tie macadamizing and the spaces or paying the real estate no peclal taxes fi city thousand or the The sald question and proposition shall be submitte proper for to sald electors 1 provided by lots, with the words “Yes thereon. Al of said ballots having an mark following the word “Yes” shall counted In favor of issuing sald bonds, and all of & ing an “X'" mark fol lowing " “shall be counted and considere aguinst the issuing of sald entire in the w far official bal ' No," printed shall be open on th t elght o'clock In the morning Ad shall continue open until six o'clock in the evening of the day, at the respective | voting p! es following, to-wit FIRST WARD. ct—Northeast corner lay of said | First Pacific. Dist 12th and 81 n M an |n an W n n n m th mi P L n pencer Sixth District 1o and Corby venth District ker ghth District urdette inth District iklin ith Southwest corner 28th ave- Northeast corner 334 and T 27th and Northwest eorner 2ith and Northeast cc District—Northeast corner 224 and District—Southeast corner 2ith SEVENTH WARD. IPirst District—Southwest wson ¢ District—Northe ue 1 Poppleton av hird Distriet—North side of Jth street irth Distrie nd Arbor, Fifth Distriet jckory ixth T id Popp! corner 28th and th Center, oppo- 2th 20th and st corner —~Northwest corner Northeast corner Yortheast e ue EIGHTH WARD. Tirst District—Southwest corner 2ith and milton ond District Awell hird District ifornia Fourth District -Northwest enne and Cuming. 17ifth District—N uming Sixth District Uifornia nth District uming th District roer 20th street orthwest corner 27th and Northeast corner 26th and 2th and corner rtheast corner 21st Southwest corner 21st and 15th Southwest corner 17th and NINTH WARD t District—Southwest corner 1ming cond District ning Third District arth _District and Davenport Fifth District—Northeast corner je and Farnam Sixth District 1e and Jackson. In witniess whereof T y hand as mayor of said city of Omaha \is 17th day of October, 1894 BEMIS, GO, Mayor, Northeast corner 1 and Northwest corner 40th and Northwest corner 40th and Northwest corner 324 ave- flst ave- Southwest corner 2th ave. have hereunto set P, Attest JOHN T. EVANS, City Clerk. Oct17020&8 Stockholders' Meeting. Notice 13 hereby given that eeting of the stockholders of latte Land compsny will be held fice of sald company, in Lincoln, i the 16th day of November, 1884, for urpose of considering and acting upc atter of extending or renewing the f Incorporation of said wDany. order of the hoard of directors, R. O. PHILLIPS, Secretary, Lincoln, Neb., ¢ 16, 154, 016 Osn the the artls