Show SOLVING A GREAT CITY'S WATER PROBLEM Away up on Esopus creek In tho the rugged Catskills back of thu time city of or Kingston ston and antI along a C nine nub down site just over toul route leading to 0 a sie the N Now New w YOI York City line lne a n. force orce o or of nearl nearly engineers and und contractors conti workmen are ate engaged today on in the bl biggest est task of or Its Is kind ever undertaken under under- unter- unter taken the taken n the task lasle of constructing th the gigantic I new water supply system which New York City Is creating fo for itself at a cost o of th the system which in eight years ears or 3 a lit littie littie lit lit- lt- lt tie te lon longer t will vill wl be delivering Into Inlo th the city gallons of oC water vater dall dalland daily daly i and which will wi avert lert it is hoped permanent per tier manent the impending threat o of water famine from our Ou greatest et city When hen finished hec the Cat Catskill aqueduct will wi ihl b be able abl to carr carry not nol only tho tue 50 gallons of or water vater laitY dally which the time Ashokan res reservoirS reservoir will wi furnish but out also alRo tho the additional quantity which it Is proposed later Inter on to lo draw drav from other water watersheds of the Catskills B By 1915 it is calculated calculate New York wi bo he using gallons of water e every day and anti to meet met the time needs need o oa of ofa a time when ever Ashokan will vill wi not beable beable be bo able to supply the city's great thirst plans havo have alread already been made to utilize util ize further urther the iho resources of oC the Ii hills his ills when n needed e e The A Ashokan reservoir Itself will wil wi cover eJ an area areo of acres or square miles mies divided b by a dyke ke Into two tuti basins It I wi willbe be twelve miles lon long bug nearly three miles mies wide wide- willa at Its Is widest point ant and will havo o ha a shoreline of oC forty Cort miles mies Its Is stor storage stem e capacity will wi be gallons The max depth of water vater will wi be 1 50 foot feet the er a average e depth fifty feet From the little tte ln village e of or orest West Vest est Hurley eight miles mies we west vest t o of the Hudson river rivet to lo its is upper end emmil beyond West est Shokan this Immense Immen storage e basin will wi bury burl under un un- der del Its Is waters an area of or country having hay hav hu In log ing at nt the pr present nt time a permanent population of or about 1900 1901 and a sumin sum- sum in mN iner or population o of at least 2900 Seven Sc villages villaRes will vill wi be wiped from Crom the map mlp two thirty cemeteries will wi bo be submerged submerged sub sub- merged and 2 2400 2100 00 bodies burled In them will have havo to be removed ron to other resting places Sixty four our miles mies of or public nubile highways will wi bo be be Included within wih- wih with in the I reservoir er or discontinued be because because he- he cause cuse of Us Its N building and twenty five fi e miles of f new highways will have hl to be bl built buil The rhe Ulster and anel Delaware railroad railroad rail rail- 11 roa road which runs through h tho the Esopus valley aie will 1 be he submerged for Cor eleven miles anti and to carr carry the road around the gap ap thus Ihus made maele fourteen miles mies of or new track will vIll wi have to be located anti and built American Industries for Jul July |