Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-10
NEW WATER WORKS.
A Few Figures Giving an Idea of
 Expense.
What a System in Tucson Should
 Cost For Annual Maintenauce.

Ia conn nection with the question now agitatiug the minds Of the people of Tucson of cOns-ru- ting and the eX- PenFe of maintaining a system of water works, the following facts given by the Milwaukee City Council Journal should be interesting reading.
 The city council Of Dubuque, Iowa, has for some time been considering the purchase of it's local water works. A committee of fifty citizens were ap- pointed to study the subject. In get ting at the exact cost and also M hat should be the cost, the committee save:
 To know, therefore, what 1t has cost cities of approximate population, prob, able growth, sim lar situation, and gen eral needs, to secure an equal supply ot water, Is undoubtedly to ascertain what an equitable appraisement would fix as the valus of these works.
 ca thIs point your committee has made considerable inquiry, and looked up good deal of data. We have exam ined statements of all the water works engineers and manufacturers Of water supplying machinery. Estimates of the latter as 10 the cost of water plant sui ticient for the needs of a city similarly situated as Dubuque; with approximate population and prospects of increase; with similar probable expense for laying pipe; approximate number of miles of pipe; and generally with larger capacity of pipe; about the same number of hy- drauts, and greater capacity of mschin- ery-placed the costs of such plants, when new and efficient, at from S200,- 900 to S250,0O0. This estimate is borne out by the published reports as to other cities, few of which we will give.
 Jackson, Michigan, system direct, daily capacity of pumps. 6,OOOOOO.OOO gallons, twenty-one miles of mains, four to eightesn inches ia diameter, cost, S250,O00, owned by city, annual expense of S12,OO0.
 Madison, Wisconsin, direct pumping, daily capacity of pumps 100000 gal Ions, 123 hydrants, twenty-four miles of mains, three to sixteen inches diameter, cost, S220,0OO, owned by city, annual ex- pense of S9,500.
 La Crosse, Wisconsin, direct pumping, daily capacity of pumps, 6,5OO,OOO gal Ions, 184 hydrants. nineteen and one half miles of mains, six to twenty inches in diameter, cost 5l9l, l64, owned by city, aenual expense, S9,323.
 Burlington, Iowa, system direct, daily capacity of pumps, 6,500.0G0 gallons, DIS hydrants, pipe four to sixteen inches in diameter, nineteen miles of mains, cost, 5lS5,000, owned by company, annual ex- penses, Sl2y000.
 Sioux City, Iowa, system direct and reservoir of ,5OC, 900 gallons, daily ca pacity Of pumps, 100000 gallons, 14I hydrants, thirty miles cf mains, four to thirty inches in diameter. cost, S200,OOO, owned by city, annual expense po5 given.
 Lincoln, Nebraska, system direct and stand pipe. daily capacity of pumps- 4. 5O0,000 gallons, 240 hydTants, twenty eight miles of mains, from four 10 six teen leches in diameter, cost, 33,O5O, owned by the city, annual expense, Sl8,- 523.
 WiuOna. Minnesota, system direct and stand pipe, daily capacity of pumps, D. 060,000, 225 hyd0ants, twenty-two mics of mains, six to twelve inches in diane ter, cost, S22s. eco, owned by the city, an nual expenses, SS, 900
 Fort Wayne. Indiana system direct and reservoir of 3.000,OO0 gallons, caprc- ity of pumps, 9,000000, 317 hydrants, thirty five miles of mains, fouI to twen- ty-four inches diameter, cost, S2S0,0C0, owned by the city, annual expense of 5l5000.s
 Youngstown, Ohio, system direct, daily capacity of pumps, 8,000.000 gal Ions, POS hydrants, twenty-five miles of pipes, four to twenty inches diameter, cost, S2S0.000, owned by city, annual ex- pense of S12,O00.
 Aurora Illinois. DurnD to stand piDe 250.C0O gallons, daily capacity of pumps 100000 gallons, twenty-nine miles of main. four to sixteen inches diameter, PTS hydrants, cost, S217,764, owned by city, annual expense of 57, 7,742.
 Cairo, Illinois, pumping to stand pipe and direct, capacity of stand pipe 26O,- 900 gallons, 160 hydrants, sixteen miles of mains six to eighteen inches diame- ter, cost, SI50,000, owned by company, annual expense Sl0,0OO.