The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18
ITS NEW SEWER SYSTEM
More Than 30 Per Cent. of the
City Now Cared For.
WHERE THE lATERALS ARE
A Brie: Summary of the Work That Has
Been Done on the Sewer System
During the Year Just
Passed.

One OF the greatest improvements
hat the city of Anaconda has made
during the past year. and one that
everybody will take the greatest pride
in. is it's newly established system Of
sewers Everybody knows the general
plan of the sewer system for Anaconda.
IL Is this: The sewers are in every case
20 run through the alleys and are to be
lateral lines or secondary feeders for
the main sewers. II the present plan
is kept up all of Anaconda's sewers VIII
be run through the alleys except the
main sewers. BY running the sewers
through h alleys people may connect
with them without digging up the street
and interfering with traffic.
The sewer system is now extend ID
over more than so per cent. OF the or
iginal town site of Anaconda. The nat
ural grade of the town is such rs to
reduce the expense to a minimum. and
the whole city will doubtless be pro-
vided with sewers within the next year.
The summary given below will give IN
idea OF the great amount of sewer
building that has been done during the
past year. IL is a most creditaole
and satisfactory showing for the city:
The total mount OF sewerage hat
has been built in Anaconda during the
past two years has been IS. 1s7 feet. or a
little more than seven miles. OF this
sewerage. 2.290 feet Is In kline pipe.
1881 feet Is in eight-inch pipe. $3.50
feet In l0-inch pipe and 5000 feet I'm ~
fp.k m. hsHt.- ska Dna fAnH
while the city has engaged In the lay
ing Of sewers. the footage above indi-
Gated has been laid. In addition there
have been 81 manways built and IL
iush tanks put i'm. These flush anK
flush the sewers once in every "a hours
and pour $50 gallons of water into the
pipes at each discharge.
Prior to 1896 there was about 5,150 feet
In sewerage. This lay IN Park avenue
from Main street eastward. In the
So me yea there was built by st. AIMS
hospital l.160 feet Of sewer. which was
then i'm the nature OF a private sewer.
In 1897 sewer building took a little
more of a boom. In that year 7.162 feet
of sewer. private and otherwise. was
built. In 1898 the people of Anaconda
and the city council began to awaken
TO the need OF sewerage. Thus far I'm
1898 %, us feet OF sewerage has been
laid. or n little more h four miles.
OF the sewers built in 1888 the follow
ing statement shows the number of
feet that was laid I'm the different sizes
of pipe: Six-inch. 26O feet: S-inch, H.
705 feet: 1O-inch. $500 feet; 12-inch. 1870
feet. OF this there was bull; by spa-
cial Improvement districts 16. 1876 feet Of
s-inch pipe and LEO feet OF 10-inch pipe.
and by the city 4.4i0 feet of 10-inch pipe
and 1870 feet Of 12-inch pipe. The pipe
laid by the city Is, as stated above, IN
main sewers.
The special improvement districts so
far established are as follows:
District No. Elm the alley between
Front street n Commercial avenue.
east of Main. TO Alder street. thence
south TO a connection with the Wash
ington street sewer. The length of the
sewer in district No. . is 3.142 feet.
District No. SIN the alley between
Park avenue and Third street, west of
Main. from Pin to the alley between
Main M Hickory. thence north to Park
ven main; length 1000 feet.
District No. 4-In the alley between
Third and Fourth streets. west Of Main.
from Walnut to Main street: length
2.3S0 feet.
District No. 5-In the alley between
Commercial avenue and Park avenue,
east Of Main. from Main street to Alder
street: 2.020 feet in length.
plrtIltl No Vii lnt dltN W
Park venue and Third street, east Of
Main. to junction with Washington
street sewer: 2.16O feet in length.
District No. I'm the alley between
Third and Fourth streets. east of Main.
beginning at the east side of oak street
and running to Ash street and Joining
the Fourth street main; length 2,l60
feet.
District No. SIN the alley between
Maple and Locust streets. from Sew
enth street to Fourth street; length
lose feet.
District No. 9-In the alley between
Maple and Elm streets. from Seventh
street to Fourth street; length 1850
feet.
District No. 10-In the alley between
Oak n Cherry streets. from Eighth
street to Fourth street: length l,i30
feet.
District No. ll-In the alley between