| Show water Is cheap in the old days when water was car ried around on carts the price per barrel was nine cents that price did not seem exorbitant waa thought cheap now the cost to the consumer is about one third of a cent per barrel thirty barrels for ten cents and at that rate the city makes large profits out of these profits ia paid the cost of extensions and renewals and of various other matters and still thera remains untouched revenue amounting to nearly the rate of profit will rapidly increase in the future inasmuch as a great deal of piping has been done in advance of population ula tion vacant spaces will henceforth be filled in with improvements improve menta and people rather than new acquired extensions of the water service in many directions and fo extreme distances are therefore nearly complete and permanent chicago herald |
