The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-28

aooVe sea level, providing sufhcient faIl
to furnish water by gravity from the
proposed supply to Jersey City. The
water will be conveyed by means Of cast
iron pipe of large dimensions in as direct
line as possible to Belleville reservoir.
When the party left this place, there
was not one among them who was not
impressed with the superior facilities
which the spot offered for an intake re-
servoir. aud the impression was, that if all
the plan was as favorible as this. Jersey
| City would be fortunate to obtain such
| new water supply.
DIXoN's POND.
From here the party were driven
| through the town of Boonton, up over
| mountain and across a bleak level
stretch for three miles TO body of
water called Dixon's Pond. The
| journey had hardly commenced when the
entire party began towonder at certain
mysterious boxes which rode all alone
with Captain White in one of the car
riages The wonder was increased by a
spruce little darkey, who sat beside the
| driver of Captain Whites carriage. This
| three miles ride to Dixon's Pond was the
coldest part of the drive. Cape ulsters,
heavy oyercoats and ordinary gloves were
| of no avail against that still, biting cold
and some who had two blankets wrapped
the toes. When finally the
party alighted at the Pond the mystery
of Captain Whites boxes was explained.
The spruce young darkey had them
opened in iiffy and disclosed tempting
piles of sandwiches and hot tea, coffee
| and other invigorating refreshments. In
few minutes everyone was thawed out
and they proceeded to inspect the Pond.
| This is a natural lake. surrounded by
| high, rocky hills, covered with light
| forest growth, which can be very largely
augmented by the construction
| Of dam to a heighth Of
about forty feet, increasing the area of
\ the lake from IS to 230 acres. which will
! give storage capacity of about 800 GOO
| gallons.
The cold at this point was so great. at
least every one thought so that you could
| see the water CONCEAL and turn into ice
before your eyes.
BEACH GLEN.
A ride of some three miles more over
| hills brought the party to Beach Glen,
| the proposed site of the main and largest
| reservoir of the system. To the eye of
| the ordinary layman the piacs looks like
| a well kept farm, lying in a picturesque
| last place in the world one would think of
| building a lake. In fact, you wonder if
it could be possible TO build wall long
| enough aud high enough to keep the
| water from running away. This, how
ever. is the way it looks 10 the engineer.
The reservoir which it is proposed to
erect here will be "Y" shaped 81 miles
long by q a mile wide. The few farm
| houses which are located upon it will be
| removed. and dam will be placed at the
lower end about 30 feet high by 1000 feet
long. The Lake will be skirted by
dow lands forming this basin
are very level meandered by
Beaver Brook, aud So level that the
spring freshets cover it to depth of four
feet. This basin has water shed of 35
square miles, aud is fed from three or
four natural mountain lakes, the over
flow of which will be intercepted before
reaching the Kockaway River. This
reservoir will catch the overflow from
| Split Rock Poud, Hibernla Pond, Dem
| mark Lake and Hoglan's Pond. The
water IN this basin will be about thirty
feet in depth, and will hold about $780,
| 000 600 gallons. This basin is perfectly
clean meadow Land. affording no chance
| for deleterious growth, an ideal spot for
| a storage reservoir, and will be one of the
| largest artificial lakes in this part of the
country.
The party drove up ON high hill where
| a surveyors transit had been planted so
| that all who wished to look through
could get good view of the site. Each
| one took squint and said he saw lots.
| Mr.. Carr remarked that he thought it
was very cloudy and wondered much
| thereat until he discovered a wicked
reporter holding his hat in front of the
| instrument.
DENMARK LAKE.
From the Glen, the company proceeded
| over the hills through the seer brown
country to another large lake called Den
| mark Lake. The country was sparsely
settled, only one hamlet of any size being
encountered, and that was the mining
village OF Hibernia. As the carriages
wound through the one street of this
primitive place, fanked on each side with
low, forbiddlng looking huts. the inhab1t-
| ants rushed to the doors and windows
and wondered where the funeral came
| from.
Denmark Lake is a "V" shaped body of
| water nearly IA miles from end to end,
with an average of half a mile in width.
This lake not only seems to catch the
natural water shed of the surrounding
| country. but seems also TO be fed from an
underground supply of pure spring
water. The present area of this lake is
$50 acres, which could be increased if
necessary to 500 acres by erecting a dam
to height of 10 feet.
PICTURESQUE SCENES
The most picturesque part of the ride
came after leaving Denmark Lake. A
narrow road winding up the mountain
was followed for four or five miles. The
ROAD traversed a rocky gorge which had
been ploughed through the rock by
narrow stream which no obstacle could
stay. At times ir would widen out into a
good sized stream and bring up short
against huge boulder Then il would
be lost to view only to reappear a short
distance below broken into several tinv
streams which were pushing and squeez-
Ing their way between the great rocks.
Tall trees dressed in their winter garb of
russell sprang out of the rocks on all sides
while the narrow road was skirted with
a fringe of green, the long, narrow
leaves of the buck myrtle
GREEN POND.
This ride ended at Green Pond go
called from the green tint of the water.
which resembles the color of that which
pourS over the great cataract of Niagara.
1t is at an elevation of ]. .0S0 feet above sea
level, aud Is another feeder or the R6ck-
away River. This lake is seventy-lye
feet deep, the bottom of which can be
seen as clearly as though it were
but five. 1t is the largest