Johnson City debate on water plant ownership and bonds
The article argues for city ownership of the water works over private control, detailing pressure needs, franchise terms, and financial implications. It discusses Watauga Water Company, possible 20 year franchises, and estimates costs for a new system to serve 12,000 residents and the Soldiers' Home, weighing value, fair compensation, and public interests.
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Sinking Creek
Jnlge Kirkpatrick
Watauga Water Company
Kirkpatrick
Watanra Water Company
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Piper
Yale
Comppany
Col. Burbage
Jin
Webster
Aquare
Boardman & Jeter
Alfred Sully
Camegie
Tte
Conti Cation
Johnson City
Jim Hieckett
Lund
Water system a mint for any city waterworks
Letter from Fayetteville official endorses town owned water plant. Details gravity source with 16 springs, 300 feet above square, 5.25 miles of 8 inch main, 63 public fire plugs, 86 pound pressure, and annual income rising from 2500 to over 6000 dollars. Bond repayment, sidewalks, high school, reduced insurance, and improved public health cited as outcomes.
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Fayetteville
Water plant profit plan for city growth and taxes
A local writer argues for city ownership of a new water plant, detailing projected revenues of over 60 000 annually, reduced taxes and water rates, and job creation. The piece urges voters to inform themselves and support the public ownership proposal over a franchise, citing conservatively estimated earnings and long term city wealth. KE O Reeves.
Bristol youth George Hopson seriously injured by train
George Hopson, a Bristol resident visiting Johnson City, was struck by trains on East Tennessee and Western North Carolina and Ohio and Western trains while onyard tracks. He fractured skull above the right eye and remains in critical condition after surgery by Dr. J West aided by Drs. A J Edwards and J A Dickey. He was brought to Bristol and later lapsed into consciousness then rested easier. He has a wife and has lived here several years.
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George Hopon
Bristol
Washington Street
Johnson City
Herald-Courier
J. West
CO & O
A.J. Edwards
J. A. Dickey
Hopson
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Johnson City Rights On Waterworks Construction
Johnson City supports building its own waterworks despite impact on private property. The piece argues property owners deserve compensation per law, but forego long term public benefit for individual profit should not block the public utility project.
Let the Law Speak for Itself Continued From Page One
The text urges strict and clearly defined duties under the statute for keeping and paying out the fund. It argues expenditures are safeguarded and that assumptions of citizen misappropriation are questions, not certainties, asserting eight local citizens may not violate the law.
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