The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-02

Just exactly three months ago a
workman with an axe felled a tree
about four miles west of Anaconda
That was the beginning of the work
that has resulted in giving to Anacon-
ia a system of water works the equal
OIL which is not possessed by any city
IN the West and in fact by few cities
IN the entire United States
yesterday afternoon at Sis O'Clock
the WORD was given to open the valves
NJ Lake Hearst In 171 minutes water
burst INTO the new reservoir that will
henceforth distribute water to the con-
sumers in Anaconda. The conduit from
Lake Hearst to the new reservoir is a
l2-inch pipe, almost exactly four and
half miles in length The water
which started yesterday afternoon at
BIB O'Clock at Lake Hearst reached the
reservoir at 5;32:30, having travelled at
rate of speed of Is miles an hour.
me water was allowed to run into
the new reservoir all night, and from
the new reservoir was conveyed into
the Old reservoir and thence into the
mains leading to the city. This morn
ing the water from Lake Hearst will
De drank for the first time by the cit
liens of Anaconda, and henceforth this
system of water works in the West
and through this system will flow The
purest OF water, direct from the SHOWS
tnat cover grand Mount Haggin.
Without Ostentation.
Very few people in Anaconda knew |
tnat the water was to be let into the |
pipes yesterday. Had they known If |
the probabilities are that half the nom
ulatioh Oh the town would have been
OUT lhefe. The men who built the
WORKS, however, knew what nuisance
a crowd is, and they kept the matter
TO themselves. The engineers knew
tnat there would be delays and diff
cultles' that pipes would be clogged
up; that joints would break, and that
:, crowd were permitted to witness
tne tr1al there would be no end of crit
lclsm and suggestion. So the crowd
was left at home and the trial was
made in a quiet way, without any at
tempt at display. Several times Ches-
Ter b. Davis, the engineer in charge.
a a me Word TO open the valves at
Lake Hearst, and each time the snow
ana Ice would pack solidly in the pipe
ina the water refused to come throi,gh |
me pipe was filled with dirt. rocks
snow, Ice and sticks. and all this rub
Disn had 10 be blown out before the |
water could come through. The ire ,
nendous pressure of the water in Lake
iearst was sent into the pipe a num-
Der or times. Each time the rubbish |
vas forced little further At last /
ocks, stones, sticks, snow, ice and dirt
'egan coming out of the end of the $
'ipe, the joints creaked and the water ,
lowed peacefully into the reservoir. a
Ihe trial was far more successful /
nan had been anticipated. and the {
which the engineers had I
expected to encounter on this initial at +
empt fortunately proved to be of q I
sss serious nature than had been Il
cared. !,
The City's Supply.
The completion of the new reservoir
no the connection of it with Lake | n
learSt means much to Anaconda n I,
leans water supply that will be am fl
lie Tor this city for years To come !.
mere VIII be enough water To sI1nnl,, | :,
city OF population of 80 900 peo,je >.
O give an idea of the immense water ;,
ipply that the completion of the work =,
eans, the following summary of fig 4
res will be of interest: ~
Lake Hearst lies about nine miles ~
est or this city. II is a body of the n
lfest water. three-quartcrs of n mile ! ~
length and one-quarter of mile in | 7
10Th, which is fed by the melting of hi
e SHOWS which exist there during the y,
tire year. This lake lies up against a,
cunt Haggin, at an elevation of 8 200 "
ct above sea level or 1900 feet above M
e street in front of the Montana bo
]. The banks of the lake have been of
lSed about 20 feet which bac il, -