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Show The City Water Works. Engineer T. W. Elkrbeck.roturned on Sunday evening from a vUit to Louisville, Ky., where he has been to instruct the manufacturers of the city water pipes as to dimensions of the same, etc. He also went to other eastern cities to gain information in regard to the latest improvtments in constructing and operating water works. The corporation has secured the services of Mr. E. to superintend the construction and laying of the pipes, putting in hydrants and valves of the city water works. Between Be-tween GOO and 800 tons of pipes have been received and the work of laying them will be commenced this week, ! some of the trenches having already been dug. If the gentleman can make of the water works us great a success as he did of tho gas works and we do not doubt that lie can the corporation and citizens will be highly pleased and thoroughly satisfied. satis-fied. Our morning contemporary has assailed the corporati on for purchasing pur-chasing the pipe in the east, on the ground that it should have been manufactured here; and as uual the grumbler grumbles from force of habit, and without the slightest Icause. The pipe, laid down at the railroad depot in this city, coal a trifle lew than three and a half cents per pound. The subject of the mains being manufactured by our city foundries was thoroughly canvassed before the pipe was ordered from the east, and for this reason several months' delay was occaflionid. It was ascertained that the cost of procuring pro-curing the necessary machinery, building the pits, etc., to cast tho pipes in vertical moulds, would be , very heavy, approaching tho original , cost of tho pipes at the eastern foundries; further, after such a huavy outlay of meana, the mains could nut have been made here at a leos cusl than nearly doublo the price for which they have been procured. ' With an earnest desiro to aid Utah manufacturers, the council fuund that it would be impossible to get the pipes made here, except by exercising . an almost criminal disregard in tin.' expenditure of tho city's revenue. |