POSSIBILITIES OF TREATMENT OF NEWTON’S CREEK RESERVOIR. 
A large reservoir basin of lake-like dimensions, that will 
provide an abundance of water at each incoming tide to thorough- 
ly flush out all drainage matter at the ebbing of the tide, insur- 
ing a sanitary condition of this section and providing a sheet of 
water admirably adapted for Park ornamentation and greatly 
increasing the beauty of both Park and Boulevard planned to 
border the lake; and will enable the property owners to make 
valuable and marketable large areas of at present submerged 
land, and will add, when improved, not less than an additional 
three to four hundred thousand dollars to the taxable values of 
the city. The same shortage of funds that has prevented the 
completion of the improvement plans upon Smith’s Creek has 
operated in like manner for the commencement of the improve- 
ments upon Newton’s Creek, and the extension and completion of 
Jackson Park. It can be demonstrated without question, that 
these improvements will enhance the value of abutting property, 
and permit the filling in and improvement of lands now of no 
value, that the income from such improved property, in the 
shape of taxation, will more than doubly pay the interest upon 
the bonds necessary for such improvements, and also provide for 
the retirement of such bonds thirty years from their date of 
issue. 
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