The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-12
PURE AND PELLUCID.
That is the Kind of Water
Sedalians Will Here
after Drink.
The Hyatt Water Filter Com.
pieted and in Operation.

The last remaining objection to the
water Furnished by The Sedalia Water
works company has b. IN swept away
and our people may congratulate
themselves VI IN the fact thas that NO
city IN the west posses a better OF
more complete waterworks system
thsn does s dalia, in the suffi-
cheney of the supply but now, by
reason ofthe Improvements just added,
also in the quality of the water sup
piled. This great desideratum has
been reached by the addition to the
works of two o: Hyatt's Water FIJI
ter's which iwere put in operation
yesterday and which will hereafter
render the hydraut water IS clear
and sParEling as that If Il mountain
spring and chemically pure-much
purer than that obt1ined from any
well in the city of Sedalia.
Iu company with Mr.. S. F. Rose,
superintendent of the Seoalia Wafer
works company, BAzco re-
porter visited the waterM orks
Yesterday afternoon, and found
Mr.. G. II. Hendricks, who represents
the Hyatt Water Filter Company,
Newark, New Jersey, putting the
finishing touches on the two mann
moth filters, or tanks, which occupy
a brick building about three hundred
feet north of the pump house. and
about one hundred feet east of the
reservoir. There are two upright
closed tanks constructed of three
quarter inch steel, ten fee. in diameter
and niue feet high, each containing
about 400 bushels of fine sund with
layer of coke on Top of the slud
These tanks are connected with the
mains leading from the pump house 10
the city, the WAFER entering The tops
of the tanks and is forced through the
coke and sand and passing out at The
bottom into the main, through which
it is forced into the sand pipes 10 the
city. The secret OF the filtering pro.
cess lies in three small retorts contain
ing water, impregnated with alum in
The proportion of one pound 10 ten
thousand gallons of water, which
forces a small stream into the main
before it reaches the tanks.
The effects of this infinitessimal and
har nless infusion is to "set the color
in the water and the filter catcces
every particle of color, and leaves the
water perfectly pure and clear. Coke,
as is well known, is certain death to
all germs, and the result is. that the
wafer we now get is absolutely clear
sud chemically pure. Water can b.
forced through these filters, or either
of them, at the rate of l 600, COO gal
Ions per day. Since the city uses
only 100000 gallons per day, it will
be seen that the filters will be amply
sufficient for present needs, and may
be added to at any further time. The
cost Of the filters will approximate
$50, 900. The Hyatt company has
0een engaged in the manufacture of
these celebrat I'd water purifiers for
eight years and have erected them In
ali parts of the country, having re-
Gently put twelve tanks in at Atlanta,
Georgia. where thorough test was
made. The water was pumped out of
q muddy pond, being saturated with
r; d clay. After being forced through
the filter il was run inio a reservoir and
the water was twenty-five
feet deep, objects lying On the bottom
could be distinctly seen by moonlight.
The company bss also put filters iu at
Mt. Pleasant and Oskaloosa, Iowa,
Illinois, and many other
cities, beside supplying large num-
her of sugar. re6ueries aud paper
mills, where large supply of absc-
lutely pure and clear water is an Iu-
necessity.
'I'he s dalia waterworks are now in |
a fine condition in every respect. The
pump house has been Iemodeled, and |
the floor laid with hexagonal thing,
while the wiodows are stained glass
and the interior is handsomely fur
alshed. There is a battery of four
ste Il boilers eighteen feet long and
sixty fues. Two only are
used at one time, the other two being
Kept in reserve. There are two low |
'el vice Blake pumps with capacity !
Of 5,OOO,0 900 gallons per diem, and |
three high service compound duplex
Deane pumps with capacity of A.
500, 900 gallons per diem. The wa
Ter is first pumped from a large well
sunk in Fat Creek, into a
settling reservoir, from whence
i flows into second |
settling reservoir, and thence iuto the
Dig reservoir which contains Is acres
IF ground and holds go, 600, 900 eal.
nnc nr IN ell,