The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-09
GENERALlTIES.
The Chicago Water Works.

The present tunnel under the lake at Chicago
is capable of supplying the city with fifty mil
lion gallons of water per day, but Chicago wants
more water, and new tunnel larger than the
one in use is now projected, with other water
works and engines which will cost, as esti-
mated million and one-half dollars, The new
tunnel is to be six feet in diameter, and 1t is to
furnish the same supply to the city at an arti-
ficially produced head of eleven feet instead of
eighteen feet as now, and at a propOrtionately
reduced cost for pumping The new work will
occupy three years.
A Crimenn Railway.
railway is to be laid across the Crimea,
between Sebastapol and Losova, a station on the
Taganrog- Charkof Railway. The portion of
the line between Sebastopol and Rimpheropol is
to be constructed by the Russian Crown at its
own expense and the working companies of the
regiments on the spot are To be employed in
making the embellishments this month. The
other portion of the line between Simpheropol
and Losova is to be given to a private company.
The works undertaken by the Crown will be
very expensive, as the country through which
the line is to pass is hilly.
The BivaIves.
The approaching oyster season promises to be
one of the largest we have had and both the
catchers and packers have made extensive pre-
parations. New houses are being built, and
every vessel that can be put into service is
either ready, or will be in a few days. The
rumor that the drum fish had destroyed all that
were planted in the vicinity of New York will
somewhat increase the demand for small oysters
to plant and there is not dealer in this city
that has not very large orders to fill the coming
winter. On Monday we saw several boat loads
ready for shipment, and if the weather remains
cool, business will commence early this lall.-
Norfolk Herald.
The Florida Cotton Crop.
Florida paper says:-
Experience has shown that long cotton Is the
most profitable crop that can be grown in
Florida but not always a successful one because
of the caterpillar. The soil and climate seem
peculiarly fitted for it, and the statistics show
that il is grown to greater perfection here TN
the peninsula) than on the sea islands of Georgia
and Carolina. This year the great body OF our
farmers are engaged in its culture, and up to
this time it has sustained but little if any injury
IRON the caterpillar.
''Already reports are brought TO us of farmers
having picked out from ten TO twenty thousand
pounds, and it is yet early i'll the season. and
can hardly be said to have commenced to open
fairly The prospects ahead are that there will
be more cotton raised in this country than is
likely To be picked out. Good crops are some
Lhlng much needed by our farmers they having
had miserably poor ones since the year 1866"
Forests Burning in Maryland.
The Snow Hill Worcester county, Md Mes
senger, of Saturday, the 4th, says:-A fire broke
out in the forest, in the northern part of this
county, near the Delaware line, on last Monday,
and, IN consequence OF the dry weather, spread
very rapidly, burning through the swamp, and
in its progress destroying several fields of corn
All efforts to stay Its course were iruitless, anC
up to our last advices it was still burning, and
no prospects of its being eXtinguished unless
this section is blessed with rain, which, from
present indications, we have little ground Il
hope for.
Since the above was in type we have
received the following from Berln:-"The eX
tensiVe tract OF land, known as the Burn
swamp few miles north of here has been OF
fire for two weeks. Everything that can burr
is being consumed, dense clouds of smoke ar
waited into the town. filling the dwellings, an,
4 artfn fnnIa elx ttAftr
Colonel Jacobs and others are heavy sufferers b
the loss Of the cypress timber Nothing shoI
OF moderate flood viii be likely to arrest il
progress"