Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-07-30
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standing one. The superintendent
| should be empowered to enforce it
every time the water in the reservoir
recedes, beginning with the'very hour,
| if possible, it ceases to overflow.
Messrs. Wittig and Lammert, of the
Water Committee Alfred Jeffries,
superintendent, James Aspinall and
the organ of the Frostburg Ledger
company went Thursday upon an ex
petition to Cranberry Swamp in quest
of the number and volume of accessi-
BILE sources of water supply. The con-
clusion was very satisfactory, the
party being satisfied there is enough
water available to amply supply the
town. Equipped with a metre, care
full measurements developed the fol-
lowing results:
Wolfe SDring-A flow of at least 10 gallons
per minute.
Warmers spring.-One half mile from
Wolfe's; two together furnish flow OF 10
gallons per minute; two smaller springs
near by not measured. According to the
survey recently made these springs are l5fcet
higher than Wolfe's.
The above are minimum figures
showing that at least 2S,S0O gallons
daily can be added to the present
supply. This outside of the discovery
by the committee that a vigorous
spring under the reservoir and several
others of less volume on the line can
also be made available.
The time for this survey could not
have been better chosen. The drought
is at its worst, and the spring that
flows now can be relied upon.
A Northumberland report from
uptown comes to the effect that the old
system has defaulted there-this when
1t has but about one third of the towns
patronage. Meanwhile, the stress on
the new system is telling one, but it
is bearing it nobly enough to show
that its supply will be still alive when
the other is dead.
The following letter will prove of
deep interest to all concerned, and the
JOURNAL begs that all will read it
carefully. 1t would seem to conclude
all discussion of what our water works
people ought to do. The figures in
dictate the number of degrees:
FRosTBURG, Mp, July 2S 1892.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Last week | furnished a partial analysis of
the water from the new water works and
promised to make the examination of the
same more complete and satisfactory this
week. notwithstanding the fact that have
been pressed for time, | herewith send you a
brief comparison of the waters from the old
and new works, which will prove sufficient,
| think, to convince any unpreiudiced mind
as to their merits.
Before giving you the result | will say that
in January or February, 1890, | tested the
waters as to their total hardness. AT that
time there were five springs supplying the
new works. The degree of total hardness
was, as we'll as | remember, of the new water
1870 of the old about 6o-quite differ
ence apparently in favor of the old. But
here is the point that occurred to me at the
time and which the present analysis proves
correct viz the first test was made at time
when the old works were fed by surface or
rain water; hence its low degree Of softness.
But an examination Of the following table
will show on the other hand the degree of
hardness of water from the new works to be
uniform the year round, and that at no time
does it become hard enough to condemn it as
drinking water whereas, the last analysis,
made during the present drought, shows the
water from the old works to be more than
four times as hard as the standard of purity
of drinking water:
February, 1890.
Ola Works. Ncm Works
Total hardness. 80 Total hardness. 100
July 81, 1892.
Total hardness. p 80 Total hardness. 60
Removable .I76o Removable " :. $50
Permanent " =. go Permanent " :. $50
The standard of purity of drinking water,
as given by Prof, II. Ogden Doremus and
others, is stated as follows
Total hardness. ........ ............-....12o
| Removable hardness. ....................1O 100
| Permanent hardness. ................... 20
| II MAY De stated IIldt HSct UT peTllld-
nent hardness, is much more injurious in a
drinking water than the removable, and that
90 of permanent hardness is the standard, or
maximum of hardness in healthy drinking
water; hence, the permanent hardness of the
old water being go, iustifies me in the state
ment that the water is more than four times
as hard as the standard of potable water.
do not think it necessary to give the en-
tire composition Of the two waters, as the
only ingredient found to be unhealthy was
in the cold water" viz: carbonate of lime.
| haye recently heard it stated that the old
water contained sulphur. | deem it fair to
say here that my analysis failed to develop
any of that substance.
/ present tins as the work of the Board of
Health, done purely in the interest of the
people of Frostburg. G. G. JACOBS,
Secretary.
In plain terms, the doctor says the
old water is, in a time of drought,
more than four times too unhealthy
for drinking water.
The Weather.
1t was hot here early this week
The mercury rose to the top and sought
to kick the skylights out of the Their