Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], August 9, 1860
We perceive in a recent issue of the Shreveport (La.) Gazette that the inhabitants of that place are experiencing great inconvenience and actual suffering from their inability to purchase water—the free gift of God to man—even for ordinary purposes.
Mr. Jones, the lessee of the spring which supplies the town with water, advertises to furnish it to families at the following rates:
Drinking water, by the bucket, from the 15th ult., to wit: 2 buckets, daily, for one month,
$3; do., $; 4 do, $5. Watter by the barrel of 40 gallons, 50 cents, on delivery.
He has a regular superintendent at the reservoir, who keeps the water clean, and execute orders for it. Mr. Jones says the advance is price is owing to the high price of corn, hay and other provisions.
The Gazette urges the corporate authorities to purchase this spring and prevent its monopoly at a time like the present.