Show QUESTION OF WATER FOR WESTERN PACIFIC when the surveys were made for hio pacific railroad around the south end of the lake the question of where pure water was to be obtained arose and the engineers thought that they had solved it when they drove artesian wells and found fairly fresh water in large quantities the water was somewhat salty but as horses drank of it freely it was thought that it would serve tho purposes 0 the camps to be established as well since the locating of the construction camps U has been found that the water supply was not satisfactory and the engineers at once took the matter in charge with a view ot remedying the condition after making several surveys the utah construction company decided to pipe water from brunt spring in skull valley along the line of the western pacific toab edge odthe great amer these pumping stations are to be built and operated in order that there may be no difficulty in delivering the water in the quantities desired the first pumping station will tae erected at the spring the second at hogs back to lift the water over the rise and the third at low pass with the completion of the temporary water system one of the greatest handicaps in the work will have been overcome as with puro water the sanitary condition of the camp can be kept in good order the charleston after her official arial trip in january will be sent to the specific station as a flagship of the asiatic fleet she Is lister vessel 0 the st louis and milwaukee now building |