St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-30
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
Abstracts Of the Annual Reports o.
the Several Departments Ofthe
Suofnr1l


A meeting of the board of water commits
sion was TO have been held yesterday but
there was no quorum, and consequently no
meeting was held. Below will be found an
abstract of the different departments: .l.h
SUPERINTENDENT ESTIMATE.
The following is an estimate of the pipe
recommended to be laid on st. Anthony hill:
4 inch pipe, 4,s75 feet; inch, 43.755; u
inch 6,300; 10 inch 6,1OO, or total of
3 miles and 1850 feet.
The following is an estimate of the pipe
recommended To be laid on DAYTON Bluff:
inch 600 feet; inch $3.50; II inch 4, 700;
16 inch $500, or total 3 miles and 4,5l0
feet
The following is an estimate of pipe rec
commended to be laid in low service: inch
pipe $500: 6 inch 12,O7s; IL inch 4,430;
16 inch, l. 700; 20 inch 3, AGO. OF a total Of
miles and 3,7s5 feet.
The total amount Of pipe recommended to
be laid is as follows:
Miles. Feet
On st. Anthony Hill .............l1 1850
On Dayton blum. Observation-Disclosures. 8 1910
On low service. .......... 1874
Total. ....................... 8S5
hydrants and valves, $1s1, 2O1.66
The following is the number OF miles of
mains laid from December 1st, 1888, to De-
cember 1st, 1884.
On low service inch, 1920 feet; inch,
II, 405 feet; IL inch, 122 feet; 10 inch, |, 1894
feet; 20 inch, GO feet; "a inch, l,7l6 feet:
80 inch, 1880 feet; So inch, Is feet, or a
total of miles and 1925 feeI.
On st. Anthony hill: 6 inch, 1904 feet:
IL inch, 9,07S feet; 10 inch, 6,2s5 feet; 20
inch, 10,907 feet; "a inch, 1901 feet; or a
total Of 9 miles and 3,S75 feet
or grand total of 16 miles and ,220 feet.
Total amount of pipe laid TO date in the
city, As miles and 442 feet.
The following is the number of fire nv
drants in the city on the LIST of December
3l5, OF which 101 are Holly and 214 Math-
ews.
The number Of new hydrants set during
the year is seventy mine. OF which twenty
six are on low service and fifty-three on high
service.
ENIGNEER's REPORT
The amount of the contracts made in 1854
for conduit pumping station, s4Is, 4O6. SO.
The conduit is %, 800 feet, built of brick
516x6 feet. The gate chamber is built $50
feet from the shore in tie lake. The gate
chamber is 21x32 feet built on piles, solid
masonary, with the exception of 400 feet and
was excavated below the water line of the
country. OF this conduit 629 feet was built
in a tunnel; 675 feet were on
piling; the end of the 20 conduit
terminates in distributing chamber 4Ox3O
feet which is provided with seven water
gates for distributing the water to the reser-
voir and city mains. The pumping station
is situated LOCO feet from this CHAMBER. The
pumping station cost $1,000 II is fire
proof, and is built Of sufficient size for any
future wants The present plant consists OF
two pumping engines, with capacity OF one
and half and three million gallons respec-
lively. The cost of the engines is S2S, 900,
including two steel boilers OF sixty horse
power.
SECRETARY's REPORT.
Secretary Caulfeld's third annual report is
very complete, but q little too lengthy for
publication. The main points of interest are.
as follows: sffL
REVENUE n-gs
Amount received for the year. 1898 gS5 go
On hand Dec. /, lSsS. 1886 As
Iota! receipts ................$9 1l,4 ss 30