The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-15
HUNTING FOR WATER
Mayor Wanser and Other
City Officials Inspect
the Sheds of Morris
County.
MANY NATURAL RESERVOIRS
Six Lakes Of Wonderful Purity
and Unstinted Alum
dance.
PELLUCID MOUNTAIN STREAMS
Narrow Escape Of Commissioners
Cone and kellers, George
Bouton and Joseph Totten.
PELLUClD MOUNTAIN STREAMS
special to the Jersey City Ncsrs.

BOONTON, April 10, lSSo--A nuiiiSe
of Jersey Citys officials started 1foh
this place Saturday morning to ihspec'
the sources of the new water supply
which the Jersey City Water Company
proposes tc furnish to Jersey City. Inc
marty arrived here about half past nine
O'Clock Friday night in special car
over the Delaware, Lackawanna ana
Western Railroad. There were in the
company Mayor Wanser, his Secretary
John ]. Nevin; Alderman-at-Larse hseu-
ben Simpson, Finance Commissioners
Detwiller. Jones. Hardenbersh ana
Bailey, Street and Water Commissioners
: . Macarthur. Cone, Kellers, Hooker ana
{ Harding; George T. Bouton, Clerk OF
/, the Board: Corporation Counsei b4alr'
! Corporation Attorney Weart and Joe
=. Totten. who came along to see that
Commissioners KelIers did not drink too
much water. and Sidell Tiighnlan. Presl-
dent; Fred B. Tilghman. Vice President;
Eric p. Swenson. Secretary and Treas
urer; owen a. Swenson and Edwln h
Dickinson. of Orange. Directors; cap,
tain William Henry White, Chief Ensl-
neer. and Henry Belden, Engineer Oh
tbe Jersey City Water Company, ana
Mr.. Anderson, of Anderson & Barr, en-
gineers and contractors of Jersey CITY
~ Carriages met the gentlemen at the
=. depot. and they were driven TO the Man
s;is sion House. where they spent the night
he 1t was rather discouraging when, upon
ID q Il -alening the next morning, the VISIT
rnuH found rain coming down IN steeoy
soy stermined sort of way, with the "iho
z blowing from the east. and ali the
.f weather sharas in the party predicting
:, that the rain would continue aurins lhe
I'd Nntire day. Nevertheless, as Commits
srlxoI
al sat they had come from Jersey Clty
a ) study. and they might as we'll take
an the rainfall the chief source OF all
90 Eater No one thought of backing out,
Nsnd while the carriages were getting
Lady for the long drive through the
country those who had not the foresight
of some of the party went to the VII
lage store to buy rubber goods. 1t was
the biggest boom that the local mer-
chant had experienced in some time, ana
he was not slow in taking advantage OF
it, In less than ten minutes after the
first purchaser appeared fifty cent rub
bers had advanced to eighty cents
pair and imitation Maakintoshes. which
the denizen of Boonton considered uedF
a5 s gpaRT gfa efnFgo FOR Relf Th e WATER SHE'D
Commissioners Simpson ana Detwltier
ana one or two others went to see ,ieog nov
plane is the method by which the boats
on the Morris Canal are carried up
the State abounds. The boat. is run
on to a cradle and securely fastened.
This cradle is then hauled up the i'- m
cline on a broad gauge railroad track
by means of g. cable. which is operated
by the water of the canal rushing down
It was about nine O'clock when the
gentlemen left the hotel on the tour OF
As eey r9de wa s9hg he ehe
pany proposed to do. 1t offered to sup
ply Jersey City with pure whoiesome
system with 0,000,oeO gallons DAY gusr-
anteed, for s44 per million gallons Win
.,one 9d4 PTfs Paay to supSy 81 per of Sn
gallons, the city to nave a twenty years
option to purchase the plant and works
in fee simple for $1,000, COO payable parity
This same water the company proposes
f from sss.75 per million gallons. 2o,O 600
gallons daily guaranteed, down to Sc
per million for 100000 gallons ID, daily Il,
supply, the city to have the same option
TO purcnaTTSH THE fae TfRsT FIST II IAfSE si2.'0'',
A three miles drive brought the party
to Dixon Lake a sheet OF water cover
ing .seyenty-five acres and nesting n
a depth of go feet and drains a water
shed of a little over four square miles
The water company proposes to build ld
an additional depth OF 40 feet and in
crease its acreage to 17o. 1t viii then
hola ofgIg1g o fulnh eJtos Jersey City With for
ty-two days supply OF 5o,000,000 gallons
per day.
down in torrents, the party, left the
carriages and carefully noted the ad-
vantage which the lake afforded as they
were pointed out by Engineer Van Dyne.
Three miles more were trayersed and
Spit Rock Lake was reached This is
being $40 feet above the sea. 1t drains
six square miles of water shed ana COW
gs o acres Sg aef6y By i' the dam M which hi p the
This wI giys the lake capacity p yns Of
a fi1ty-fve days supply OF 50,OO90oo gal
'oirs PEI THE aifs' MAIN RESERVOIR.
The carriages were entered, and after
another drive of four miles, Beach Glen,
the site CT the main reservoir. or was 2, reach, @
Village Of Rockaway. It booked as though
atu5e rsge6 had ae9wfd 9nd et It a sFa spfsSTH
carriages to view his site the e,s, rain
"What is the rainfall here, Mr.. Van
Dyne?" asked one Of the party;
piled Joe Totten, as he vainly strove to
stop the water from running down ms
MI Mr. Van Dyne9 led the. party TO an
elevation where magnificent view Of
the surrounding country could be had
He explained tnat In2I WCutq4 De ttIe
site of the main reservoir and from
that point would start the pipe line to
Jersey CITY, thirty miles, away. He
po;nted out the two high hills between
which could be built an immense dam,
80 feet high and 21oo feet long The he
acres and drain q territory of 34aa square
miles, through which there flows liunler-
Gus small streams OF pure mountain
water In addition to that, it would
catch and retain the surplus waters Of
the lakes. which form the system Of of
the Jersey City Company. It would
hold $500 Goo 900 gallons. or enough water
70 supply 50,000,o00 gallons daily Ter Icr
seventy-two days. At VIII pc FL 1lsel Iess
above the sea- 40 feet above the Eigh s
Service reservoir on Jersey city Heighas
and $3.50 feet above the stand pe at
-z PerSaic sa1rni,tg uate.. eyer reaches. Titus