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Show CANADIAN WATER WORKS. Ottawa Getting- Ready to Take a Good Hath. Ottowa, Ont., Juue 6. ISpeclal.l A new system of waterworks has been completed In tiie town of Niujiera Falls, and will be put In operation In a few days. The work Is interest -tug from the fact that the greater part of It was done near tho blink of the Horseshoe falls. A tunnel 1S feet long. 8x7 feet lu size, the mouth of which is thlrty-Mve feet below the brink of the precipice and which was worked through solid limestone rock serves as a tall race from the whealhouse to the pumphouse. The necessary neces-sary water to operate the works cornea to tho wheelhouse through a wooden tube about six hundred feet long. At the upper end of the wooden tube is au open cut t'?lvd feet wide aud eleven feet deep, extending about one hundred feet outward to the northern end of Cedar island where the water is deep. Outside tho woo.leu tube is placed a fourleeu-lnch pipe, the end ot which extends some few feet beyond the mouth of the open cut near Cedar island, aud through tilts pipe fiJines the water furnished in the town for general use The completion of the works is bsiug celebrated today In a demonstrative manner. |