The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-12

ried through the heart of the big noun
tain by a tunnel into the Beach Glen
| Reservoir ON the other side.
| LOCATION OF MAIN DAM.
| Upon setting out from Boonton the
| party drove three miles through the
| country, more beautiful than ever in its
| summer garb, to Dixon Lake, which,
| when the company has increased the
| depth by a forty feet dam will contain
! 2,230, sos, 900 gallons of water or a forty
| five days supply. From Dixon the party
| drove to Beach Glen, where the main
| reservoir will be located. This is an
| immense hollow between high hills
about one mile from the village of Rock
| away. A massive dam, thirty feet nigh
| and two thousand one hundred feet
long, will be built here, which would
hold enough water to cover $50 acres.
Its capacity is 4.235. ~, ,0e0, or enough to
supply Jersey City with So days sup
ply. From here will start at an eleva-
ton of 541 feet above the sea and 410
feet above the High Service Reservoir on
Jersey City Heights. .the pipe Hue which
will convey by gravity the water to
Jersey City.
The western edge of this Glen is start
ed by the branch railroad paralleled by
the wagon road, which runs from Rock
away to the mining village of Hibernia.
These roads the company will have to
divert behind one of the hills, as the
road beds viii be under many feet of
water when the reservoir is built.
1t is also proposed to entirely wipe out
Hibernia, which has scarcely 800 souls
now, and thus remove what the COM
pany claim is the only real danger of
pollution in their entire system. This
is not such a gigantic undertaking as
at first appears, as the mines upon
which the village depends are practical
ly abandoned, as they cannot be oper-
ated in paying competition to the cheap
er worked mines of the west.
ADVENTURES OF HEAVYWEIGHTS
Denmark was reached without mis-
hap about five miles away, much to the
satisfaction of all the visitors, whose
aEpetites had been quickened by their
drive through the pure country air. This
is V-shaped body of water covering $50
acres, the waters of which will be held
back by a dam ten feet high. That will
give 2,378, ,551, 700 gallons or AZ days sup
ply. While luncheon was being pre-
pared Captain Hooker took Reuben
Simpson out il boat to fish for pond
lilies. Alec Dusenbery and John Nevin
thought they would try their luck, too,
but when the proprietor of the toats
saw Alec's breadth of beam and Johns
equatorial circumference. he shook his
head obviously and said he didn't think
there was a whale boat on the lake.
Alec's persuasive manner finally over
came the mans scruples, and they
started off something like fifty strokes
to the minute. Alec walked back along
the lakes brink, and Johnny came back
in Captain Hooker's boat. They, how
ever. got a magnificent bunch of lilies,
but the tribulations they had in getting
them would fill a book.
MAYOR WANsER RETURNS SICK.
From Denmark Lake the inspectors
drove up the mountain to Green Lake.
This was the most picturesque section
of the entire trip. The carriages fol-
lowed a narrow road which wound
around up a steep mountain for four
miles. At times it skirted so near the
precipice, higher than the tall trees.
which grew up from the rocky gorge be-
low. that all held their breaths But
they soon forgot their apprehension in
their admiration for the picturesque little
cascades and water falls which the
stream plowing its way through the
gorge was constantly forming. Green
Lake is 1,050 feet above the sea, 10 feet
higher than Trinity steeple After the
company has raised the water by a dam
the lake will contain 1,48S, 1856 S72 gallons
or twenty-nine days supply of pure and
sweet water as can be obtained any
where as all the officials declared who
tasted it, From Green Lake the party
drove to Long Wood and from there TO
Port Dram where the train was taken for
Boonton. Mayor Wanser who had not
been feeling well all day continued on
the train and went to his home in Jer-
sey City.
The entire supply which the company
can have at hand in its various reser-
voirs and lakes at all times mounts to
q, ,234, ,205,272 gallons, or 1923 days supply
of $4,000, 900 gallons daily All this comes
from practically uninhabitable country,
and the nature of the soil is such that it
cannot be titled, and the danger from pol
luton is reduced to a minimum.
The system will have three intakes,
one at Stony Brook, one at Dixon Lake,
and one at Beach GleM All these will
join at point about mile and half
above Boonton, where the pipe line will
start in Jersey City.