Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-15
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
A Correspondent Makes Good Suggestions
 Regarding the Water Supply.

A Correspondent Makes Good Suggestions
 Regarding the Water Supply.
 Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
 There was a very interesting enter tainment afforded the city fathers agd a few other visitors last night by the ex- hibition of scenery taken by the Water bury PhotogTaphic society along the the other interesting sights the location of the proposed reservoir or reservoirs. Great praise is due to the society and to our city engineer for their efforts in behalf of the city's in- terests. Mir Cairns explained the feasibility of making large and copious reservoirs at various points shown.
 Your correspondent in company with another travelled over the watershed from Reynolds Bridge on the south to near Litchfield on the north, and from Morris in the west to .Northfield in the east. It would seemed that nature had designed that vast tract of country for the purpose of supplying clear, clean, healthful water for man.
 It is rolling country consisting of meadow, grass and forest land. There were but three small patches of titled land seen not comprising three acres in all. There were no low-lying swamps visible. The "Branch" and it's many tributaries flow along gravel or pebbly beds; all trout streams, and fishermen know that the presence of trout indi- cates pure water. Besides the stream or river called the Branch" there are two other large tributaries, one from Morris to the west, another from the direction of Northfield to the east, besides large number or lesser brooks all uniting together above where the proposed reservoir or reservoirs may be made.
 If in the future further storage be re- quired there are many more feasible sites to be met with further up along the s'Branch" and on it's main tributaries. Besides if Waterbury should grow to be a very large city away in the far future there can be another supply as large again procured close at hand in the same direction and closely connected with the Branch" system. So that it may be said there will never be any need of looking in any other direction for an additional water supply if re- quired by the great growth of the city, nor of mourning the expense of laying another long line of pipe from any other point, nor paying. for privileges, land something worth considering as making amends for the outlay that may be at present required.
 One of the best views of the water shed can be obtained from Mount Guernsey, about four miles from North field on the Litchfield road. From there you can look down upon and over the entire area, and the eye has seldom rested upon a more beautiful landscape. From there, too, can be seen in the dis. tance Goshen hills and town, Mount Tom and the hills along the Connecticut river above Chicopee. A wide blue belt of Connections hills forms sur rounding circle, and it is said that the | sound is visible from there in clear weather. Altogether it is most in teresting part of the country and will well repay visit. To "Ward" off future possible pollu- tion of the Branch" and it's principal tributaries, it might be we'll to secure land to the extent of a thousand feet oI so back along the banks of these rivers Land can be got there cheap. The shade of the trees growing there now and those that would grow in the future | would greatly help to lessen evapora. tion, and the late thawing ice and snow along those wood shaded banks would serve to cool and freshen the water il the hot season.
 | As the whole nation is this year cele brating the discovery of this continent by Columbus, it would seem appropriate to call the new works the Columbis water works, and to name the frs reservoir built the Cairns reservoir, tt commemorate the discovery of oul modern De Soto.
 SPECTATOR.