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Show "piiiMiBESS OF Tl.E WITH UiUikS. Ti:ri:.-vrini; aniiMjiiHtTnU-Jtrl and Ihf h-rial BrJm'd. This week. Mayor Jensen, David James. Surveyor Aim1its.hi and Kugineer Forlicr have been out on the mountain southeast of town locating lo-cating the site for the reservoir and slaking (lie lines for the mains to town. The water will be taken from the Mathias and Kvan's canyons, about two miles from town. This water is clear and cool in summer, Wing clashed with the most excellent in the county. Andlhat is saying a great deal. From the canyon, I ho stream will j be conducted through an inexpen- j sive pipe to the reservoir, i00 fl to the north. This reservoir is several hundred yards almost due cast of Hie old Jensen rock residence resi-dence south of town. Its capacity will be from 150,000 to 200,000 gallons. From the reservoir tr Jos. Mer-rell's Mer-rell's place, where the mains will strike Main street, is one mile. This will be laid with the best of, pipes, capable of sustaining a very high ressure. The reservoir is locuted on a bench 2.I5 feet above the base ol the Court House. This will give sullieient force from an ordinary nozzle h throw a good-sized stream over the opera house. Such a stream will prove a powerful instrument in-strument in knocking fires bottom side up in the twinkling of an eye. The material for the system has been ordered. It is expected thai it will arrive inside of two weeks. 1 wo mon ths, only, will be consumed con-sumed in completing the system I after spring breaks. When the snow vanishes and the j frost quits the earth, the digging of the trenches will begin. . |