Iloilo waterworks system at last underway

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The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume 6 (No. 7) July 1926

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1926

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THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL July, 1‘>2G Iloilo Waterworks System At Last Underway Southern Port Will Have Service By 1928 Much as the Minikin may appreciate the erection one after another of great public buildings, such for example as the library building on Bagumbayan that will house the legislature in its halls and the library in its cellars, still he may do well to bear in mind that there remain in the provinces the most important towns, capitals and sea ports, without even the convenience of a modern water system. This is significant in the matter of public health, and relief of the appalling situation of three provin cial capitals and ports, Iloilo, Laoag and Bacolod, is at last on the public works pro gram of the insular government. The building of the Iloilo waterworks system is underway, the pipe, costing about Pl,250,000, has been purchased and bids on the dam and reservoir will be called for in September. The plans for these structures are now being drawn. Iloilo is expected to have the use of the new system by 1928, perhaps the latter part of that year. Several million pesos will be expended on the system. The systems for Bacolod, capital of Occidental Negros, and Laoag, capital of Ilocos Norte, are to fol low. Many Journal readers know the wretched state of sanitation in Iloilo; it is only necessary to say that conditions at Laoag, a city of almost equal population, are no better. They are probably worse. If one wishes even the semblance of house hold sanitation, he must resort to the force pump, the surface well and the septic vault in any of these towns; and each is a prin cipal town, while Iloilo is an important dis tributing point and seaport. Their common facilities in respect to wa ter are the semi-nude curgador and th? painted oil can, with sometimes the addi tion of a push cart. Every shower is a boon, for the rain water that may be caught and stored for a day or two in nondescript kitchen uten sils is preferable in every way to the limpid but polluted streams from which the or dinary supply comes in the manner just described. Prior to filling his cans, the faithful cargador will always bathe... usually upstream. Existence depends upon the faithful boiling of all drinking water. For the more susceptible, normal health is quite out of the question. Every phase of life is affected, from home con tentment to labor turnover. The Iloilo water system will serve other towns in Iloilo besides the city bearing the provincial name: Maasin with 10,000 popu lation, Cabatuan with 16,500, Santa Bar bara with 31,000, Jaro with 26,000, and (later, when the proposed extensions be yond Iloilo have been installed) Arevalo with 5,000 and Oton with 17,000. It will also serve the towns of Pavia, La Paz and IT IS A CAPITAL T YOUR LOGGING PROBLEM can be solved readily by some type of WASHINGTON LOGGING ENGINE The Washington Simplex Yarder shown above leads all Yarders in ease of operation and low cost of upkeep. Washington Iron Works, seattie, u. s. a. Agents for the Philippine Islands The Edward J. Nell Co., Ltd., — Manila. Connell Bros. Co. IMPORTERS WAS H I NG TO N ENGINES___ IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL July. 1926 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 19 Mandurriao, the population of which is not available in the 1918 census. The present population of Iloilo would appear to be ap proximately 55,000. It is worthwhile from the practical view point to encourage such projects: they materially extend trade in sanitary and plumbing supplies. During the period from 1918 to 1925 in clusive the United States has sold the Phil ippines sanitary supplies to the value of Pl,723,000, and iron pipes and fittings to the value of P9,777,245. Foreign countries had but seven per cent of the business under the first heading, and only 3'Z> per cent, approximately, of the business under the second heading. In the eight years covered, the sanitary supplies from foreign countries were valued at P117,843 and the duty collected was P19.7G2. (Except for the free trade with the territory the American supplies would have paid a duty of P288,668). In the same period the pipes and fittings from foreign countries were valued at P382.684 and the duty collected was P36.373. (At this rate the duty on the American supplies would have been P928.838. On the two classes of goods, sanitary supplies and pipes and fittings, free trade gave the homeland an advantage of Pl,217,506). Although the Philippines were much more able to buy in 1918 than in 1925, they actually did not buy nearly so much, which indicates that the trade grows with the installation of waterworks in the provinces: Philippine Imports of Iron Pipes and Fittings Manila to New York via Suez and Europe See the Old World on your trip home. Stops of several days in many ports. You can travel through Europe and catch our boat for New York via Southampton, England, at Bremen. “The Most Interesting Trip In The World.” NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD O. RANFT, Agent. Phone 247 368 Gandara (Corner Gandara and Pinpin.) Year From U. S. Foreign Duty 1925 Pl,194,892 P135.577 19,766 1924 1,209,638 79,980 9,411 1923 742,853 51,463 3,676 1922 605,097 51,300 2,223 1921 1,901,224 18,317 525 1920 1,576,119 26,265 582 1919 1,879,414 10,789 76 1918 668,008 8,993 114 Totals P9,777,245 P382.684 P36.373 For another comparison the weight in kilograms of pipes and fittings from the United States is given, from 1918 to 1925, in order: 2,244,312, 6,362,065, 4,345,667, 5,144,163, 2,274,777, 3,386,248, 4,979,272 and 5,548,412. Philippine Imports of Sanitary Supplies Year From U. S. Foreign Duty 1925 P220,033 P 26,178 P2.909 1924 221,053 14,439 1,926 1923 212,308 2,158 348 1922 170,085 4,577 606 1921 320,618 3,098 451 1920 225,643 1,592 277 1919 173,129 10,753 2,067 1918 180,517 55,048 11,178 Totals Pl,723,386 Pl 17,843 Pl 9,762 Iloilo and Bacolod are in the aristocratic sugar region of the Visayas, where men build palatial homes on their plantations and maintain residences in town for their children in school. Aside from considera tions of health, sanitation and decency and comfort, installation of waterworks at Iloilo and Bacolod should bring import bus iness in plumbing supplies from an average of 1’1,525,145 to well over 1’2,000,000. America’s share is 95.7 per cent. The dam for the Iloilo project will be built 3*-j kilometers above the town of Maasin, and the reservoir between Cabatuan and Santa Barbara. The dam will be 27 kilometers from Iloilo and the water will be conveyed by pipe line from town to town and finally into the city. The reservoir will impound 11,500,000 gallons of water. The watershed embraces 6,150 hectares on the Tigum river, above the mouth of the Salag. THE NEWEST EQUIPMENT IS ON THE NORTH COAST LIMITED SEATTLE TO CHICAGO (DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE EAST AND SOUTH) “NEWEST” means an Observation-Lounge Car surpassing all others heretofore designed. 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