Show PROGRESS the tito ogden ca cov water arks year ing completion the ogden city water works company was incorporated oct ath 1880 and soon afterwards acquired a water right in ogden iziver of three million gallons per day work was be begun beun un in june last LAYING A LINI OF PIPE rire up fourth street E eight eglit thousand feet were laid reaching from theo 11 tank to the bench canal water wag was procured from individuals and a few of the most urgent consumers were I supplied up plied when tile water company turned the water out of oatlie the canal a stream from taylors canyon was substituted which is now being used tho tito water company are making rapid progress towards the completion of oatho the main line when the supply from front ogden river will be steady all and abundant upon invitation we paid A VISIT TO F WORKS KS on monday and were favorably impre impressed ased with the progress made and the early promise of completion beginning b at a point three fourths of a mile up tip the canyon we found a substantial dam constructed and under about six feet of water was the large funnel shaped screen at the head of the pipe E from rom there wo we lound a ten inch pipe had been aid laid in a trench on oil the north side of ilic the river for feet then comes A FLUME two feet square supported on trestle pillars and trestle work for feet the th pipe occupy occupies es the centre of the flume and is packed in sawdust then comes conics for feet in n which the pipe is laid and is being covered we arc are now at a point about feet above the wagon road bridge and the rou route te I lies along a perpendicular wall of solid rock with here berc and there a deep fissure and at their base the foaming waters of ogden river hero it was necessary TO BLAST OFF THE ROCK and form a shelf for the flume to rest on four miners have lave been constantly employed for two weeks upon it and the work Js is hearing nearing com completion e lenters TR the c c carpenters a r p arc are rapidly laying the tile stringers and building the flume and soon the pipe layers will be at work where a short time ago a mountain sheep would have declined to pass reaching Ke aching the bridge the pipe will past pass pas s under the wac wagon wacon on road and then for about feet continue in a flume built on trestle work on the north side of the river river at this point it is practicable to bury it and A lias has been prepared to the east cast bank of the river between the old and feet from the end of the tile pipe i p e lal here r ll 11 a flume for about feet will be built crossing the river on stone piers and then the trench is dug for nearly 2000 feet to the edge of the cream pot th through roual I which the route now lies until t the I e distance of feet is readied reached one pipe will there havo have a fall oi of feet and for the next 2000 feet will gradually rise until the brow of the bench is rea reached clied at a point of feet above the lowest point the capacity of this line is estimated at gallons per day 11 buring during the coldest weather it is the intention of the company to drain the pipes at the lowest point and thus avoid all ill danger ot its freezing THE TIM RESERVOIR will bo be located on the bench about feet above main st level and will consist of two reservoirs one for supplying tho the city and the other or waste reservoir will be used for irrigation from the reservoir the line will run south for about feet and then west along fourth st to the present terminus a distance of 2700 feet we found this last latt portion being rapidly a men under mr charles welch the entire length of the tile line now being laid will bo be feet makin making feet or a little over four ani and a half miles the total cost being about AB As soon as this line ia is completed the work of EXTENDING THE will be pushed until all till the principal al streets arc are supplied the city has as accepted seven fire hydrants on oil fourth street and an all it demand is made that one be p placed aced at each street intersection above stain main street and to east street the company are now supply supplying M in tile central pacific R IL co and tho the engines of barnard white H el gibson and the electric light besides a number of other cu customers storn inel including buding the tile HERALD publishing lishing company this journal being being printed by a motor from their tan tank |