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FAILURE OF WATER BOND ELECTION
A GRAVE MISFORTUNE
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FUNERAL DIRECTORS
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The failure of the bond election „for town can be safely put at a tax of
increasing the water supply leaves the $20,000 a year. The cost to the town
people of Clinton face to fate "with an of interest on. $76,000 of bonds bear-
extremely serious problem—a proWfeni
which can only be solved by calling
another Election as soon as it is legally
possible, and putting it through after
the people have been fully informed
of the situation. The election would
haue^been unanimously for the bdttds
t the
had the people voting understood
ing five per cent would be $3,750.00
per year. It ought not to take the
average business man in Clinton very
long to figure out that there is only
one thing *to do, and that is to vote
the bonds.
The engineer with whom city coun
cil contracted, has just recently fin-
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situation. The following factors prop- ished very successfully a fine plant
erly understood would make the vote for Chester, of which the Chester peo-
unanimous^ in a second election. pie are very proud. His work here of
The first of these factors is the course is held up until there is-money
huge-cost, of pumping from the deep : wijluwhieh to proceed. J. E^Sirrine
wells, with the q£jft%intyr that their A*Company, the leading engineers of
declining water supply^ifTeventually this state, advise against any im-
i give out. The Southern Power Com- provements on Beard's fork, by reh-
•’ I pany invoice for current for Octoberof lack of water supply there, and
1927, was $1,606.88; the same month urge going to Duncan’s creek. The
in 1926 $1,245.00; the same month in
1925, $1,083.00.
plan proposed by the engineer, who
has been employed by council, is to
|* Mos? of the increased use of cur- a fifteen foot dam, .impounding
j rent is for pumping water from the," ater * n a which would back up
deep wells, due to failure of the water ^ rom the old Burnt, mill site, where
! supply on Beard’s fork, and that re
sulting from* two and- three-quarter
the dam would be located on the old
county road, up to the concrete bridge
years of extraordinarily small rainfall OI 2 ^he new highway to Sandy Springs
! fof this section. It is probable that a Qi s t am 'e °f about one mile, esti-
the increase in the- electric current ma ^ e< ^ ca P ac ^y sufficient to run the
monthly bill of the Southern Power ^ or one y ear * without any flow
Company, due wholly to pumping from i. stream; that i§^ once the lake
deep weds, e^eeeds $400.00 per month, ls filled. Such a' supply would be
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T HE money which telephone subscribers and the
public in South Carolina pay for telephone service is a
large sum in the aggregate but it by no means equals
the money spent in the state by the telephone company.
Last year, for instance, the telephone company spent more
money for taxes, wages and Similar operating expenses,
and for additions to the plant in South Carolii
lina than it
collected fee telephone service.
If the telephone company had depended solely on its
it could
operating revenue it could not have improved and en
larged the telephone system to the extent of $1,063,000.
Our ability to borrow money to make these additions and
replacements is due to the confidence of investors in the
management, and their belief that you are willing to pay
rates for service which will earn a reasonable return on
the investment. J
The cost of everything used in rendering telephone service
has increased enormously, but the rates have advanced so
slightly that your telephone dollar now buys more than-any
other dollar you spend.
The margin between revenue and expense
dwindling and the increased costs of furnishing telepl
service presents a problem in which every'telephone user
has a vital interest. •
is rapidly
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or $4,80(1.00 per annum, wdth the cost
increasing as the wells fall off in their
yield. It would be folly to expect them
to continue to last, since they arejle-
clining constantly in volume.
much cheaper to pump than the deep
well supply; would be ample; would
never stop the pump from lack of wa
ter, giving a constant supply; would
be much cleaner than the Beard’s fork
, * j u i su PPl.v by reason of having a large
The invoices for current used by the lak( . whk . h the wau . r w()u|d sedi _
of Clinton, October
people of Clinton, October 1925, . .. ... - ...
j 4. net. nr* n * u moc men t. the heavy silt falling in the up-
amounted to $3,766.2<; October 1926, nor .
$3,278.48; October 1927, $3,295.89. The
decline in invoicing is partially due to
the sale of the lighting system in the
Clinton Cotton mill section to; the Clin-
j ton (Cotton mills. Of course this re
duces the purchases from the South-
per part of the lake, while the pump
ing would be done ,at the dam, the
most distant point from the intake of
storm water.
In the meantime, there is increasing
instead of decreasing fire insurance
ern Power Comparty on the part of premiums, the possibility of cancella-
the town. However! the cheap cook-! iton of fire insurance, a grave and
ing rate has induced the installation growing risk to the very existence of
of a good many cooking outfits and-^h 0 t° w n, and an onerous burden of
refrigerating outfits, which has prob- cost, which the people ought not to be
ably made up for the loss of several expected to bear. \et the vote went
hundred monthly accounts in the mill; twenty-two majority ^gainst the
village. bonds. . .
The 'second factor of importance is This simply means that the people
that Beard’s fork water supply is so were not informed*of the above facts,
short that the pump stops very fre- or were so sure that the election would
quently by reason of sucking air from carry that no one worked to carry it,
a four-inch supply pipe. In other 1 "’bile a few did work to Jcill p
It is
words, the water is pumped down in ffo°d to be Conservative, andlBb6dy
' iff
, the well from which the pumping is wishes the town any further iff d^ebt
done, to a point where the pump sucks than >s absolutely necessary, but none
in air with water. That stops the of those who voted against the bonds
pump automatically, and cause? the "iould likely vote against them again
superintendent or one of his men to *1 ^b e y understand distinctly that it
visit the pumping station with great means a much more costly operation
frequency to start up the pump again. be without the water supply than
The reason for the shortage i^ first! to P a V it—costly to the individuals
that the stream is flowing little wa- anfl ^ town government as well,
ter; second, that the Clinton Cotton thereby the cost distributed to
mill has a supply dam above the city ever ybody.
-pumping plant, and when pumping, Mayor McMillan has done a very
takes practically all of the water of fine and patriotic thing in getting up
i the stream, so that the city plant is the petition for this election. The job
unaljUt. to pump at all. . - is a big one. It is to be hoped that he
Under these conditions it is impos-| will not be so discouraged that he will
sible to keep the standpipe full, and Rive up the project and leave the pub-
a proper supply in the groOnd level I be to suffer the results of the mistak-
tank. The city is equipped with two en v °tc- However, only two members
1000 gallon per minute pumps, with
j which it can elevate water from the
ground tank to the standpipe. The fil
ter—a double filter—will filter 15f)0
; gallons per minute—500 gallons less
than the elevating capacity of the
pumps at the power house in town.
The entire supply of standpipe, filter,
of council, including the mayor, regis
tered for the election. Only two oth
er city employees^fegistered. Out of
the four the writer is informed that
one voted and worked agains^ the
bonds. Under these conditions, the
fiist thing is to wake up the city gov
ernment. Public opinion ought to do
ground level tank and sedimentation (h a U an d i n doing it, ought to wake
* • ' -•—4. onn nnn. —i ! itself to a realization that we must
basin amounts to about 800,000 gal
lons when everything is full.
have water. Without it we have suf-
1 fered severely from mosquitoes and
The capacity of the pump at Beard’s i . . . . . .
^ ^ ft ! consequent malaria, causing sickness
fork is only about 350 gallons per : , ,
. • ‘ .. . land endangering life, for the reason
minute. The capacity of the pumper * * ’
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that there is not now enough water to
flush the sewers, thus breeding mos
quitoes, and hasn’t bebn for a long
time past. Yet our people vote for
mosquitoes and for malaria, and for
higher operating cost of the water
; engine recently purchased for fire-
1 fighting is 7-50 gallons per minute, so
1 that while the entire equipment is am
ple, except for one thing, it is all
brought to nought by reason of the
I lack of one thing, which is an ample . j c u- u
“ , : TV • • i 't system, and for higher insurance
I water supply at the original source of -r-u 4 • w * 4U • *
^ . .. rates. That is what the majority vote
rpw water. The town is wasting sev- * • u i i *•
. il , . t, . ® i meant in the bond election,
eral thousand dollars a year in pump-
t ing at extravagent cost the deep wells,! It might further be said that no en-
I but it is face to fate with a certain terpnse requiring a considerable vol-
j shortage of water at no very distant um « of water w<)u| d ever be located in
date, bv reason of the fact that the Clinton until the water supply is am
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well capacity, plus the Beard’s fork
capacity combined, are not equal to
the needs of the town, much less to
ample fire protection.
The Underwriters association” re
quires a pumping^tapacity equivalent
to 1500 gallons per minute. The fil
ters could take care of such a supply
if pumped into town. , The elevating
pump even more into-the standpipe or ’
pump even more int othe standpipe or
into the main, but the capacity of the
pump at the original supply is only
350 gallons per minute, even if there
was a great volume of water. As there
pie. A number of concerns «are now
considering Clinton^J^ut there isn’t
a chance that they will come here un
less they are assured that the water,
supply will be ample and constant, and
reasonable in cost.
' J. F. JACOBS. ,
Robber In Town!!
W. C. Merrell, who is doing the
plumbing at Clinton Mills for Mr. W r .
Bailey, has opened a plumbing shop
is not a volume of water, that pump on Wall street. He has a show room
can only operate when the Clinton 0 f mo dern' fixtures and can furnish
Cotton mills is not operating its pump- y 0U modern plumbing at rea-
ing plant, and{f is threatened with the SO n a bi e prices, and ' first-class work-
supply running_ so short that it will mans h$p. He can give good reference?
not Be able to operate then, for if the an( j j g a man s j ee p S we u a t night
i cotton mill should reduce the level of f or w h e n he installs a job of plumb-
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ing he doesn t rest uneasy about some
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its lake to such a point that it would
require the'flow of the stream to fill
the lake in a period equivalent to the
period when the mill pump is not run-
1 ring, then there would be no water
supply whatever from Beard’s fork for
the city.
< ►! The deep w'ells cannot supply half
of the needs of the town. 4n the mean-
one taking fever or Sonic other dis
ease from imperfect plumbing and
sewer gas coming in through the
house*.* Give him a chance and he will
give you a good job. No matter how
small or ,how large, he will take care
of your needs at the earliest hour. '
Let him look after your steam heat-
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limp the^eople pay horrible price in ing plant and te?t it out for the'fall
high pumping cost, high maintenance use. « - *
icost of the pumping plant at Beard’s i i*r ^ IVIT?!?!?!?! I
fork, and a still higher price in failure; '
; to get their insurance rates revised by 4 3Vall St. Phone' 91
lack of the pumper water supply for
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