Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-01-21

/ L GOSl DUI0 iltdIls IpI NDilGdtit tEdllS
on the lake for all purposes
Within the last yearthe town, under
sudden impulse OF modern energy
and the force of outside example. has
established a water plant admirably
adapted to local conditions and of IN
estimable value to the people.
The shore Of the lake at this point is
very fiat and but few feet above the
water. An artificial head. therefore,
had to be created to insure proper dis
trihution. a brick building directly
on the shore contains the boilers and
two powerful Worthington pumps for
alternative use. About two hundred
| yards inland is erected stand-pipe,
or water tower, ID feet high and 10
feet in diameter. This tower, kept
full by more or less daily pumping,
| distributes a pressure of about 80
pounds. which may be increased in
| definitely by direct connection be
tween the pump and mains. The
water is .taken-Hot from an unpro-
tected well located in the drainage of a
| livery stable which stands invitingly
near. but by a line of pipes extending
/ twelve hundred feet into the lake
where the water is about twenty feet
deep. With proper strainers covering
| the intake the soft water of the lake is
delivered to consumers in abundant
quantity and as pure as possible from
an uncovered reservoir.
The only drawback to this system is
/ the standing expense of machinery
and attendance, but this is accepted
as a necessity of the situation. With
out artificial power the plant could
not exist and the people would not dis
card the system for double its cost.
Adjoining the pump-house is large
building heated by steam from the
| boiler; the lower story is devoted to
the reels and other fine apparatus.
with racks over the steam coils for
! drying hose. The upper story is di-
vided by an archway and PortiereS into
! two splendid rooms with nice carpets
and furniture and papers and period
icals, etc, for use of the firemen. as
the town holds that men who volun-
tarily assume the arduous duties of
protecting their ow-ctizens, are
abundantlv worthy of proper recog
| milton. and a chance for social and IN
tellectual enjoyment seemed the most
useful and graceful form of acknowl-
ment.
| Desire to institute comparison be-
tween what has been done by intelli
gent energy in small town of two
thousand in ahitants and what may
and should be done in a town of more
| than twice the size. must be my apol-
ogv for loading your columns with
otherwise irrelevant matter.
In one case power and pressure have
l.. e.,
our case Nature provides the power,
and when water, abeody Hltered, is
once obtained by a cased artesian well,
| all expense of production ceases, and
we are fully provided with necessary
means of distribution.
But of what use is our expensive
| pant-of extra strength to meet extra
! pressure-wlth pipes sure to be more
or less empty every summer? The
spectacle of a superintendent of a
$47 900 water-plant going around the
town with monkey wrench and
| doing out quarter and half rations of
water to people who are entitled to
full pressure all the time. is certainly
more honored in the breach than in
| the observance" And such water "a
concentrated solution of trcclay, me
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