Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-01
THE WATER h

No city inthe United States is furnished
with II clearer or purer water than that sup
piled by the Omaha water works company.
The Water Works of Omaha are owned by II
company of Omaha capitalists, Incorporated
under the name of the City Water Works Co.
OF Omaha. It's officers are: samuel X. john
son, president Milton Rogers, vicc-prcsi-
dent j. II. Dumont, secretary and treasurer
d.. II. Goodrich, superintendent j. ID. Cook,
consulting engineer. Directors Samuel
X. johnson, Milton kogels, w V. Morse, G.
w hamilton and j IL. DumOnt.
The works of the company embrace II COM
binntion of the direct pressure and reservoir
system. TIL source of supply is the Missouri
river. The pumping machinery consists OF II
pump of 600 lnllUns daily capacity
Tor raising the water from the river to the
settling basins. One Gnskill pump OF > oOO,-
o gallons daily cnpncity, aud one Knowles
pump OF , 900, q gallons daily capacity for
raising the water from the setting basins to
the storage reservoirs, making an aggregate
capacity of 1000 OOO gallons in twenty
four hours. The present consumption aside
from that used for fire protection Is about
5000, 900 gallons daily. The engine and
boiler houses are brick structures, resting on
solid stone and concrete foundations, and
rooted with corrugated iron ON wrought iron
trusses. The stack is of brick one hundred
feet high, resting ON twenty feet OF so id
masonry with pile base. Water is drawn
FROM the river aud pumped into four settling
basins situated on river bottom back OF solid
stoLo r|ip-rnppinv, aud have n capacity of
i1,'oT,V"' Su,a1Hn; ,in' r"t' - = saw NV irS = t,r 20
~ n,a Tnl IL III ,yast md tbrao I'm, MA
and seven feet above the river, having IL ca
i"Gu y, a, h t"I ~ :" % ~, a." "m nftI tbromnT
fortv' six rniiCs Of nina me cornn,nv nisn
provides 100 tre hydrants, the ludicious dis
tribution of which, together with the large
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iesulNoltS ninptS Pro'1"'s y '"o wv pio'
The company's grounds Mt the site of the
nntIT,t%S' ~ Avn y 90 ~, tbo stor""o cmn,city tC
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,ba n", 'r - ~ o y was mIp,,ISS IN Nm%mst
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mla9oull wv Wv . 80 lotnt ,;1Ha. 80
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olIy "nlrt > o. futS 80" i""'iN y" $50
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MN u,ppEp ASpu,IT PAVING 20
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The Barber Asphalt Pnylhg company, oil
Washington, d. C.. established Il branch III
Omaha III lS92 Inc company WORKS are
located ON J"cKSoh stIeut, ptlMcoh geNcnen
asphaltum ready for paving Is Carried on IN
these works during the paving season, re,
tween May st ana October -oln 1854 tht
company lhld down 'o'o"o yarus OF sloot
asphalt pavement upon Il coheltte pnsc ol
broken stone ma hturuuLlu voilent ~
iuohes deep rms, win th' pavement tuuu
during the precealnB yehr hssteshteS loo,
600 yards, equH 10 nu1ut seven lhns7 ol
street inns 10 hun''S ulfeu-Iuuilms ol 'mo
eutls p"Nlhb arc" so 'h '"i"l'''" ~
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