The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-29

works under Capt. s. s. Leach, andi the
expense is betrayed from 81, 900 allotted by
the river commission. The total allotment
for the ensuing fiscal year amounts to
$405, 900 for the river improvement be-
tween Memphis and Plum Point, OF this
500, 900 is for Hopefield reach and $780,
600 for Plum Point The proposed survey
will extend from Bear bayou, in Mississip-
pi county and near the Missouri line, TO
the mouth of the St. Francis. Last year
thirty miles OF protection levee was built
by the river commission, and il extended
fifteen miles above us well as fifteen miles
below Plum Point. II caused the value OF
lands to enhance from $3.50 per acre TO as
much as $40 per acre in many cases. With
$500, 900 spent in levees on the st. Francis
river front what estimate can be placed
upon the value OF the 5000, 900 acres with
in the st. Francis basin?
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The big stand-pipe for the Artesian
Water company, now in course OF con-
struction at cost of $4,000, and located
at the head of Vance street, near the Val
ley Oil works, is making slow progress.
When completed it will hold $4,000 gal
Ions OF water will stand 100 feet high, and
NiiN vain ANU NbANi NblhbiHNh Will NNlEh
over 3, 500,0 goo pounds. Tho tank or stand
pipe is made OF steel plates, - feet long, 3
feet wide, II inches thick and weighing
$3.50 pounds each. 1t takes five plates 70
60 round the circle, and il will be thirty
two courses in hight. The rivcts or bolts
are driven red-hot by pneumatic machine
weighing about 3, 500 pounds and the pro.
cess OF working the colossal concern is in
tercsting. The work has been in progress
over two months. 1t is expected that the
water pressure ON the pipes throughout the
city when the stand is complete will he from
sixty to seventy pounds right along. The
water supply is now furnished, as has been
related heretofore, from thirty-two artesian
wells, sunk from $50 to 500 feet below
the carth's surface.
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In this connection il will be proper to
state that Mississippi county, Arb, will
vote ON the 10th OF November upon the
question OF appointing levco commission
eTs and an assessor to tax lands , cents
per acre annually for levce building pur-
poses. Crittenden county will vote on the
same question November 20. With the
aid of the government in making annual
appropriations the tax proposed would,
IN u lew years, supply all OF the lunu
needed to construct the levCcs required.
The owners OF land in the 81. Francis
basin are destined TO bc rich southern
nabobs at no distant day. Their 5000, 0OO
of acres will be made 10 blossom like the
rose ere the nineteenth century closes.
The people OF that section have the valua.
bile Yazoo basin and its splendid system ol
protection levecs before them as an cX-
ample, and they propose TO copy after the
style practiccd IN that rich section.
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The Women's exchange opened out with
cclat and the receptions held yesterday
and the day before were grand. The
ladies are laboriny in good cause aud de-
| serve the hearty support and good will oi
| all good people This was the generally
/ expressed verdict OF every member who
snt at tea last evening, MS they gazcd upon
/ an enormous bowl Of decorative flowers in.
| Guiding tive varieties Of lovely chrys1nihc-
nuns, incrslcrscl with tea roses, honey
sucklcs, lilacs. dahlias aud gcmniums, all
tIstily arranged, they thought kindly OF
the poor, expressed wish 10 extend aid
where it is.dcscrvcd and resolved amid the
gayolics OF the period to speed the work OF
the Women's Exchange club.