The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
Pure and Abundant Supply of
Water From the Mountains.
A MAMMOTH UNDERTAKING
The Supply Comes From Source to
Which No Suspicion of Impurity
Can Attach-A Huge Magnif1-
cient Fountain.

extreme south end of it is a crescent
shaped lake, named Lake Hearst, about
three-auarters of a mile in length by
one-quarter of mile in width, which
is fed by the melting of the SHOWS
which exist there during the entire
year This lake lies up against Mount
Haggin, at an elevation OF S,20o feet
| above sea level, or 1900 feet above the
| street in front of the Montana motel.
| The plans contemplate raising the
| banks of the lake about 20 feet, Whlch
will increase its storage capacity to the
| amount of over 100000 600 gallons.
This with the other waters In the
| gulch, which will be tributary to It's
| works, will be equivalent to daliy
! flow of fully 100000 gallons IN audi-
| ton to the volume of over lO0O,oOo gal
/ Ions at present flowing into the reser-
voir from the old source of supply
! A pipe line, formed of steel PIPE about
six miles long, will be completed TINS
week to convey the above waters TO an
entirely new reservoir IN the sulca III
which the present one IS located Inns
reservoir. which will be termed the dis
| trimming reservoir, will have its water
surface, when filled, 800 feet higher than
| the street in front of the Montana hotel
and it will be 20 feet higher than the
water surface of the present reservoir
The shore lines of the distributing reser-
yoir are very irregular, and lying as It
does in the hills it will be very beauti-
| full sheet of water.
AS a further means of adding to the
beauty of the spot and also insurlng
the utmost purity and a supply OF the
best water possible, the plans contem-
| plate that the supply main from Lake
| Hearst should terminate in fountain
| in the center of the reservoir. only
! portion of the enormous pressure
which might be maintained there VIII
| Il fo,, hi
pected that a solid jet of water two
or three inches in diameter will be
| thrown from its central orltice fully
200 feet vertically into the air, While
around the base of the fountain VIII
be a fringe of spray consisting of rows
of lets rising to varying heights and
at VARYING angles. The fountain VIII
be. without exception, the largest in the
world.
The Work in the City.
There is at present 10-inch and a
six-inch pipe leading from the resef-
voir to the city. the larger extending TO
near Third and Main streets A new
main in addition to those IA inches in
diameter connected with both reser-
voirs, will be laid to Fourth street, and
along Fourth street it Will be j. inches
in diameter to the east end OF the city.
Crossing this each four or hNe
blocks will be main eight inches and
feed the main on streets parallel TO the
principal main. A large portion of the
pipe in the existing system viii be
taken up and will be replaced by pipe
of larger diameter The company has
bought a large amount of pipe and not
one foot of it is of less diameter than
eight inches. The pipe distribution
map provides for pipe on every street
in the city where pipe will be needed
and the sizes are computed on the
basis of making them ample for the
needs of a city of $4,000 people.
The two mains from the reservoir t.
the city give a capacity ample for the
needs of population of $4,000 and pro-
vides against any possible eXlgencS
which might deprive the city of
water supply for an instant. The engi
neer assures the company that there
will be no place within the limits of tbs
system where water will not be thrown
to height of 100 feet into the air anc
promises the company that at the ties
10 streams each to a height of 100 Zee
will be thrown direct from tn
hydrants through one length OF nose
He has completed a plan which he vii
submit to the company which contem
plates erecting a fire hydrant at eaci
street intersection which he hopes ma,
be accomplished at such a cost TO tn
city that the latter will be able to atfort
so as to authorize the company to pro
coed at once with the work.
In every particular this work will b
: ample and the best it is possible Z
build. The water supply Will com
from source to which no suspicion Q
, impurity can attach, one which canno
| ever become polluted, and one Whle
, will be ample for a population of NOR
than 80, 900 people. Every care has bee
, exercised to guard against possible IN
terruption in the flow of water
/ When the work was authorized instruc
tions We're given to purchase only IN
; very best materials, to employ the ees
L | mechanics and to build the best work
| possible. The materials needed haV
been ordered by telegraph, their dellN
cry is being fastened, every effort
being made to at least bring the ne'
supply to the city before winter set
;, in. 1t is hardly possible to complet
the entire work this year.
Authority to commence the work Wa
given Oct. IA and in spite of the cor
a siderable amount of bad weather whic
: has prevailed since then very lare
1 amount of work has been accomplished
Among the interesting and novel fea
lures which render these works uniqu
: are the great height Of the lake. whic
S is the source of supply, above the ell
e almost exactly 5000 feet, or more tina
e half a mile; the fact that the flow frol
: the lake to the reservoir is controlled b
y valves operated by electricity. whic
e permits the manager, at his office
I this city. to start and stop the flo
p from the lake, nearly eight miles di
e tant, and regulate the amount Of flo
at any desired amount, and the Vel
large and beautiful fountain. Not Il
least remarkable feature is the rapidit
4 with which the work Of constructic
il has been done. Less than so days fro
q the time orders were given 10 begin "
Y see the new supply delivered in t
e city.
= At the corner Of the Montana hot
d and al the Copper City Commerce
d company's corner there Will be set Il
s hydrants, each having six hose Quite
l. and from these there viii be thrown.
10 the test, six streams, each fully 100 fl
e into the air.
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= Preparing Registry Lists.
d County Clerk and Recorder Marin Il