City's Case Almost In,
Important Progress Made
in the Water Arbitration.
CITY'S CASE ALMOST IN.
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IMPORTANT PROGRESS MADE IN
THE WATER ARBITRATION.
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A Report Upon the Value of the Company's
Plant Submitted by the City's Engineers--
Contents of the Report not Made Public--
Another Session This Afternoon.
The city has submitted the major part of its case in the trial of the water question before the board of arbitrators. A voluminous report from the city's engineers upon the value of the water company's plant was presented at yesterday's session of the board by City Attorney W. E. Dunn. Copies of the report were given to the attorneys on both sides, but the arbitrators were not willing that it should be made public. It is understood that in the estimate of the total value of the plant, the engineers have included all improvements made within the last two years, so that the estimate made by City Engineer Dockweiler in 1896 will probably be increased.
The report presented yesterday makes no allowances for depreciation, and further investigation will be made by the engineers upon this point. This will occasion some days delay.
The board of arbitrators are to meet at 2 p.m. today, when Wynkoop Kierstedt, an eastern engineer in the employ of the Kansas City water works, will file a report in behalf of the Los Angeles Water Company. The city's attorneys and engineers are to have opportunity to read this report this morning, so as to cross-examine Mr. Kierstedt in the afternoon.
Superintendent Mulholland of the water company was on the stand yesterday morning. He presented a series of tables, showing the size, character and quantity of pipe laid during the past twenty years, the time when each pipe was laid, and its location. The tables contained no information as to the company's flumes and ditches. The witness said that prior to 1885, the Buena Vista reservoir was supplied from the power ditch, but since that time the water had come from the Crystal Springs through a flume carrying about 120 miners' inches.
Some discussion arose between the attorneys as to the time to be allowed to the city's engineers for estimating the depreciation in the water company's plant. City Attorney Dunn desired ten days, but this met with objections from the water company's attorneys.
An adjournment was finally taken until this afternoon at 2 o'clock, when Mr. Kierstedt is to take the stand.
Source:
Unknown, "City's Case Almost In, Important Progress Made in the Water Arbitration," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Thursday, 8 December, 1898, p. 7.
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