Deseret Evening News | 1907-07-01 | Page 5 | Water for New York

WATER FOR NEW YORK Pueblo Chieftain Nen NI York City has hll entered upon ono 1110 of nr the most rooSt stupendous engineering works over IIer undertaken for the Ihl pur 1111 purpose pose of or the metropolis with an lilt adequate supply ti ppl of or wholesome v wa i a iter ter tr It Jl IK Is 8 planned pI 1 1111 I to construct an tin elaborate system of waterworks In lii tho the Catskill mountains turning the t Esi tho Iho Hudson Hudsoll Into it great lake by h means nf tho huge lIue Ashokan Thin darn From this luke lake an nit aqueduct with It u channel 27 1 feet deep will wilt pass under the tite Hudson nod and extend to the Croton system It Jl ItIs Is IR estimated I that hint the work will Im have progressed 88 1 HO 10 0 far tal within nix years that the tic New York water supply I will cIhi be he In Increased creased by hy gallons gA lions a it day and hod when the entire nUre system in Is completed which will bo be In III about twenty years tIlt the supply will be he Increased by gallons a it day Tho Tue cost of ot tho lie Im hot Improvement provement Is lit estimated at nt The beginning of or work on this Immense project Is the result ot of o years of or agitation than tion and ind earnest arnst endeavor I