City of Seattle Records

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River proposition in connection with our permanent future water supply, and in the construction of a distributing system this source of supply should be kept in view I recommend now, however that a pump or pumps having a daily capacity of 10,000,000 gallons be ordered at once, that a brick pumping station be put in near the present works on Lake Washington, that the suction pipes be extended to where the water has greater depth: that a thirty inch main be extended from the pumping station to the reservior and that a committee be appointed consisting of these members of the council, Beuizette Williams and three citizens , and that said committee proceed at once to ascertainwhat portions of the City stand in the most pressing need of a better water supply; decide on the location and size of additional lines of pipe, and make any further recommendations which said committee may believe will contribute to the end in view. Your attention is also called to the condition of a portion of the streets in the burnt district. I places these streets are almost impassable and should at once be cleaned up and repaired. In places the sidewalks on these streets are in a very bad condition and many needed repairs should be made as soon as possible. the streets in front of new buildings should be cleaned off as soon as possible after work on them ceases. The condition of these streets is an injury to the public as well as to the persons occupying buildings and doing business on them. The attention of the council is also called to the fact that in the near future the city will need a yard in which to store sewer and water pipes and any other supplies. An impounding yard is also badly needed and I recommend that steps be taken to secure a suitable location for these yards on the tide flat and that yards of the kind indicated be filled up and that the competent person be places in charge of the same. That portion of the tide flats bounded by the Railroad Avenue "Y" would in my opinion be a suitable location for a yard of this character, if it can be secured. Owing to the rapid growth of the City since the present saloon limits were established and the many changes that have taken place, I recommend that these limits be re-established so as to divide as