Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-01-07
OUR WATER-WORkS.
The Test Successful in Every Sense OF
the WOrd.-MexicO Now a City.

Tue Oru.-MtNtcO NOW Il tlty.
The official trial of our system of
works made Monday demon
its complete success. The
trial began with throwing six streams
Of water through so feet of 2 IL
inch hose and one inch ring nozzle.
The contract required these streams
to he thrown to an elevation of eighty
feet. The position of the hydrants
used and the horizontal and vertical
distances reached were as follows:
At the corner of jefferson and Lib
erty streets, through a defective noz-
zle, 1873 feet horizontal, equal to los
feet vertical.
At the correr Of Jefferson and
Promenade streets, 100 feet horizon
tai, equal to 1870 feet vertical.
At the corner Of Jefferson and
Jackson streets, 147 feet horizontal,
equal to ITO feet vertical.
At the corner Of Monroe and JEFF
ferson streets, 1913 feet horizontal,
equal to 1870 feet vertical.
At the corner Of Jackson aud
Washington streets, ia feet hori-
zontaI, equal to 40 feet vertical.
At the corner of Monroe and Wash
ington streets. IA feet horizontal.
equal to 10 feet vertical.
Subsequent to this test a stream
was thrown at the end of the pipe
Zine on Monroe street 179 feet hori-
z~ontal, equal to l42 feet vertical.
And still subsequent to this two sim
liar streams were thrown-one at
Pollock's mill 200 feet horizontal.
equal to 165 feet vertical, and 9
double or Sianese stream at the cor
ner of jackson and Washington
streets ia feet horizontal, equal tC
40 feet vertical.
This being the case we congratu
late all parties, but our citizens first
on the let that we have a system o
water-works and a good one.
The machinery which accomplished
this result is composed Of two Blak'
duplex pumps; one for domestic ser
vice of the capacity of 100000 gal
Ions per twenty-four hours, and on
for fire service of 100000 gallon
per twenty-four hours, workin,
against a head of IS pounds and -
pounds respectively. The boilers
each Of 50-horse power, and all tn
other appliances were furnished b
the Pond Engineering Company o
st. Louis. and the whole plant is c
the latest and most improved styl
and character. The hydrants an
valves were furnished by the agent
of the Chapman Valve Company
Messrs. Ripley & kimball, st. Louis
and the cast iron mains by the Shicklt
Harrison & Howard Iron Compan
of St. Louis The reservoir, cor
tanning when full over 50,000,0 90
gallons of water, has been neari
filled by the recent slight rains, den
, onstrating the correctness of the fig
ures on which the water supply wa
based.
Mr.. Chas. II. Martien, recently {
St. Charles, has been appointed t
take charge OF the works and he wi
: in a day or two be ready to recels
applications fer the use of water.
!. Messrs. Morris Il. Locke & Co
D fresh from their successful oper;
: tons at Moberly, have outdone then
: selves here. The thorough and bu.
: iness-like manner in which Mr.. ".
/ Masten, the superintendent in charg
5 of the work here, has performed h
e duties has been a matter of gener.
g encomium. 1t seemed impossib.
that on the 9th day of October "
could look forward to tie full operi
ton of our water-works at this dat,
but 1T has been done and done tho
oughly. If any other towns or cite
want water-works we assure the
e that the firm of Morris r. Locke
Co. are the people with whom the
can best negotiate aud secure wha
s ever Is promised them.
n City Engineer Rodgers made a +
IS port to the council that he had e,
h ahmed and measured the entire sy
Il tenn of water-works and found tn
e the ordinance had been compile
3 with by the contractors in every pa
r ~ticulsr. The city council in sessis
'r Wednesday morning adopted Il
a above report of the engineer.
The ''heavy man. of the LEDGl
returns thanks to Mr.. c. +. PurneI
is of the Famous for courtesie
rs Mr.. C. Il. Purneli now conducts Fl