The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-11
SEARCH FOR WATER.
Jersey City0fficials Inspect
ing the Watersheds for
a New Supply.
RoCKAWAY'S WILD BEAUTY
Description of Proposed Dam
Entertained With Quaint
Boonton's Sights.
spseia1 to The jersey CITY Ns,rs.

BOoNTON, July Ii, 1S95.-The three
days inspection of the watersheds OF the
northern part of the State, from wnicn
the companies which want to furnlsh
Jersey City with a new water p
expect to get the water, was begun py
the city officials yesterday afternoon.
A special car was attached to the tram
which left Hoboken at Alb O'CLOCK ana
in the party were Mayor Wanser, Cor
poration Counsel Blair. John J. NeVln,
Alderman-at-Large Simpson, Finance
Commissioner Detwiller, street anu
Water Commissioners Brown, Kaiser,
Harding, Hooker and Patterson Elk
Alderman Dusenbery, and ChleI. Ehsin-
eer Ruggles of Jersey City, Henry bei-
den and Sidell Tilghman of New hofA
and Maurice Fitzgibbons OF Boontoh'
representing the Jersey CITY water
Company.
A run of an hour brought the party
to Boonton, where it was met py Eli
gineer Van Dyke, the eompanys local
engineer. No time was lost anu a
offeials went to work at once upon aeav-
ing the train. Walking across the rail-
road company's track they stood upon
rhe banks Of a deep gorge, through the
bottom of which a wild mountain stream
WAS III ONSA
forming innumerable miniature water
fails. This Engineer Van Dyke saiu
was the Rockaway RIVER, which lhe
companyHdesignated in its informal Dig
as the stream from which it would take
a sunplemental supply. After the party
had en1oyed the wild beauty of the scene
carriages were entered and after a drive
of a mile Fftzgibbons'.4 Mills at olu
noonton was reached. Aside from It's
interest to the Jersey City people from
dis connection with the new "a.ei
supply. this spot has another atlractioh'
Hera is an old stone building Whlcn was
hup1t before the Revolution ana IN "hiel
all the horse shoes and shoe mans USE
nv the American army, when II was III
this vicinity. were made.
PROPOSE TO BUILD "A DAM
uera fine engineers explained the COM
many according to its informal plo pio-
nosed to build adam LOCO feet IN lenssh
ooross the gorge and ninety feet hlgh'
which will form an intake reservoir d
nable of storing 500, 900, 900 gallons OF wa
- From this point a steel pipe iIhe
iii he constructed to the High Service
pasarvoir on Jersey City Heights, a dis
+anca If twenty-one miles. This line WIN
mass through the Watching Mountains
Nv a tunnel four and a half miles long.
TO PREVENT POLLUTION
Mavor Wanser listened to the engln-
GERS, description of the works to pc puit
at this spot, and the description OF the
nlan for getting the water to Jersey
CITY. and then said that the Rockawas
River was the natural sewer of Boonton'
Dover. Port Dram, R~ockaway. DenVliie
and Powersville.
The engineers said that was SO, put
that the company would undertake 10
build sewers which would divert an Inc
sewage of those towns from the river
From this point the inspectors were
driven to the Mansion House, where sup
per was awaiting them. After the appetite
which the wholesome mountain air OF
this region bestowed upon eacn nlennuer
of the party had been satisfied, the vlsl-
tors strolled about the village. Mayor
Meyers Joined the party ana polnleu oue
the points of interest.
Like every other section of the coun-
try oonto is feeling the revival of BUSH
ness and many of the FORCES and mills
which were cold and deserted when the
officials visited this place on a similar
mission in the spring were aglow and
full of life. These mills are all in a deep
valley through which the Rockaway
plunges and the Morris Canal slowly
creeps.
SIGHTS IN BOONTON.
The main street in Boonton runs along
the edge of the east bank of the valley
accompanied by an iron failing wnlcn
keeps the belated inhabitants OF "olo
P-eduannoek,rs as ;qthe old settlers can
Boonton, from falling off and breaking
their bones. From out of the gloom OF
this valley last night many vivid names
from the mills and FORCES shot up INTO
the sky, making pyrotechnic display
which proved a great attraction to the
Jersey City people
At half past seven o'clock this morning
the party took carriages and started on
an all day drive through the hills OF
this region, among which lie the many
lakes of water which form the company's
main supply.