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Show WATER WORKS. The City and Canyon Trenches Being Rapidly Dug and the Pipe Laid. Work on the water system is progressing nicely. A Bl'olkii reporter re-porter took a run about town last evening and found men busily en- j gaged in digging trenches in all parts of town. The work is being vigorously prosecuted on Pleasant, Young, West, James, South and North streets. The biggest half of the trench work on Young street is completed already. The work on Main street is being postponed for the arrival of the iron pipe. A large torce ot men is at work in the canyon. Nearly a mile of trench, from the reservoir east, is dug and about 800 feet of the 8-inch sewer pipe laid. The hired men arc receiving $2 a day, wages. They dig from two to three rods per day. The city mains, covering three oi four miles, should be completed in . side of thirty days. I |