Show THE waterworks WATER WORKS THE PRESENT PLAN OF THE CITY cn y 6 now that the upper system ol of th waterworks water works has ben been laid and drink lal water promised fox fot the ift dry benchers becchers ben chers but little is heard of f the system b which city creek water to ti distribute throughout the city though in in realia the upper portion on about one third of the improvement and extensions inaugurated last fal the labor of preparing the reservoirs reser voit vois in the large brick building in the cao which in 18 to be th e besu oi of the lowr system has been a steadily hie however wever and aBd the is i ur aw almo almost t completed the connecting will then be laid from the old eld waterworks water works and the much needed increased pressure and supply for the water mains be obtained A look at the ground at the head bead of the upper system which is also used to supply the lower is sufficient clent to convince the careful observer of the wisdom dom ol of mayor armstrong and the municipal authorities in ado adopting p ting the present preference to others that were strongly nily urged when the subject was bein being 9 agitated it will be sufficient to cite one proposition that bad many ganv supporters that of making a reservoir of little valley the estimated cost of this work was placed at today to day at the head of the waterworks water works system are two reservoirs substantially built and holding enough water to te provide each resident ot of the northeast bench ten gallons of water per day these reservoirs cost less than one twentieth of the sum above mentioned and are a portion of a plan that when completed as way may be necessary by the wants of the city will husband a greater quantity of of water than would have been possible in the little valley reservoir in equally as good it not better condition had and at far less expense besides avoiding the necessity of of expending so large a sum of money at the outset one of the principal ial feature fea turea si in addition to the dif difference ferenee in cost both of construction and repair of the present system getem over ever the large laree reservoir is the absolute safety from breaking away and precipitating a large body or of water IW the city it was asserted that the large basin could have been made perfectly safe that may be but the experience of other cities has created considerable doubt on this point 0 n t in t the a present plan no n such buell danger n g r ides need d be feared the small reservoirs la the series do not rely in the least leasty degree upon the others for astren strength h they are excavated in the bed 0 of the cation canon and ad the water would have to go up hill to get out even if one should by any possibility give way into the tha creek the others boulo not be affected only by the gradual emptying process and the amount of water thus liberate liberated dinto linto the channel of the stream would be insufficient to do any damage by the time it reached the city when the plan is carried out it will be easy to stori store the water ever the tae dry season as may be found necess necessary arT and keep the inhabitants well supplied |