Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-20

PerS~csssa sf tn Pssss ef the spstsg
Htll Company for the supply 81 she
City Of seattle.
John Leary, Manager Of the Spring
Hill Water Company. has just returned
from San Francisco, where be has been
in the interest Of the company for sew
eral weeks, and 10 PosT-IsTEI.LIGEs-
cKK reporter has briefly gwen the results
Of his mission.
Tie first object was to raise more
money, which be succeeded IN dong,
aided by Messrs. Gaizert and Schwa-
5acher, who are largely interested with
him in the enterprise. The capital
stock Of ths company was raised from
$4,000 TO S250.0o0. and the increased
amount subscribed for and paid up. By
this meazs the company has xl5O,OO
mere money placed IN its hands with
watch TO extend its system and ope-
ra,ions, an amount quite sufficient fer
every purpose at present intended.
Ii was determined by tbs company to
at oace enter upon the introduction OF
water from Lake Washington. and an
engineer named Mcwilliams will be
sent here to superintead the work,
which will be pushed duriHg the next
four or five months with all the speed
men and money are capable of.
A stone and brick building forty feet
square will be erected on the west shore
OF Lake Washington, few hundred
yards south Of the Phinney saw mill.
In this will be the necessary engines,
pumps, etc. From this building heavy
iron pipe of fifteen inches diameter will
lead I.to the lake, extending out from
the shore hundred yards or as much
further as may be deemed advis sble,
and drawing its supply from depth OF
sixteen feet below the ssrfase. Ten
feet below was considered sufficient By
experts to secure pure water, but six
teen feet WAS determined upon to make
sure. The pumping capacity will be
10000 gallons daily. the water will
be forced from the Lake to reservoir oil
5000, 200 gallons capacity, built midway
between the Sound and Lake at an ele
walton above the sea Of BIB feet. This
reservoir will be high enough TO supply
every lot in the town site west OF Tenth
street, or ninety nine hundredths OF the
city's present population, bat the plan
of the company is 50 broad as TO take in
even the odd hundredth it will be IN
able To supply from the 3l5 feet reser
voir. To do this an engine will bs
placed at the reservoir and made Il
pump into another reservoir 425 fee
high, located on the Renton tract, wher.
the greatest altitude within the limits
Of the city il to be obtained. From thu
reservoir can and will come the suppl,
for all residents living at nights tot
great TO be reached from the reservoir
first mentioned.
| Il is the intention to supply every
body tn the city who wants to be sup
piled. The money spent last summe
and fall, some 5000, was pat in OIL
springs and reservoirs on the side hill
in the southern part OF town, and ii
six, eight, ten and twelve inch iroI
pipes leading to various parts of town
No sooner was this work finished thar
il was found TO be insufficient, and th,
company have been compelled, for lacl
of water, TO refrain from extending il
system and to refuse TO supply would b
patrons. With Lake Washington {,
draw from, however, they will have
supply sufficient for city more popu
lous than London, and of as pure waite
~ can be got anywhere.
| The Spring Hill Company's scope i
broader than that of any Of ITS prede
cessors. II not only aims to suppl
families, but docks, mills, railroads
water for elevators and water for tn
city. The only hydraulic power ele
vator in the Territory is now supple,
by this company. Hydrants will be pu
IN ON the street corners, having a pres
sure Of l60 pounds to the square inch
sufficient to throw stream of water a
great in volume and as long distanc
AZ n steam fire engine.
II In intended bv the Spring Hill
Company TO have the most complet
plant of its kind on this upper coast
and only the very best pipe and ma
ohinerv will be used. The present sup
ply Of the city is a small consideration
with the company, which ia looking for
ward to the time when its patronag
will be drawn from the people of tn
second city Of the Pacific slope, a tim
net very remote in the belief of tn
stockholders Of the Spring Hill waite
Company.