New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-04-05

$500 gallons were used for extinguish-
ing fires and 8, 2,517,35O for street sprink-
ling, of this probably saving could be
made as the streets have been kept too
wet sometimes.
The following number and kinds of
meters are III operation at the end Of
this year: Buffalo 81, Worthington 78,
Thompson 4, Hersey 8, Grown 1, total
1873, against 1853 last year. OF these 1873
meters, 156 were in operation the full
year. The water running through all
meters was 9,s26,65S gallons and the
water running through those ! Sc meters
in operation the full Year was s,737,56O
gallons or an average of 5000 gal. per
meter, the hi ighest number of gallons of
water passing through one meter was
1,66O,0S6 and the lowest 1874 gallons.
I Iwould further respectfully call the
attention to the following facts and i'm
mediate careful investigation and con-
sideration by your Hon. Body.
The water works plant, which has been
in operation for nine years, has not at the
station itself, received any improve
ments except an additional we'll, while
the consumption of water was raised
from 7,ss4,00O gallons in 1892 to 2O,-
500,62O gallons the year just closed and
the income of the water rent has increased
from $1,l17.5O in 1892 to $2,933.65
this year and it will continue to increase
from year to year. 1t will therefore be
necessary that some improvements he
made.
The two deep we'll pumps now in op-
GRAFTON will not furnish enough water
for the coming year, therefore something
must be done to increase the pumping
capacity.
A new chimney has also to be provid-
ed for as the present oLe Is liable to
tumble down every moment and tie
building is also in such condition that it
doesn't meet the present wants.
Improvements in boilers and machin-
cry will also be necessary in the near
future so as to decrease the present OPP
Grating expenses.
The expense for pumping 100 gallons
of water in 1892 was cents which has
been reduced from year to year, so that
the cost is now II cents per 100 gallons.
This should be reduced to below 1 cent
pei 100 gallons, as the city furnishes
water to large consumers for l cent per
100 gallons and is therefore losing mon
ey, and this can only be done by new
machinery.
The present boilers have both to be
used for running the plant and if one of
them has to be cleaned, the plant is at a
standstill and IN case of fire there would
be no protection.
1t requires one pound Of coal to pump
194 gallons of water or at cost of
S5-10O cent for coal to pump 100 gal
Ions of water, while in 1892 we pumped
only 124 gallons of water with one
pound of coal, but this cannot be re-
duced anymore without new machinery.
A new anu larger reservoir will also
be necessary to have plenty of water Oh
hand IN case of large fire.
There should be no delay IN making
these improvements as the present con-
ditions would not allow the increase of
consumers and if anything should hap
pen in the station the whole community
will have to suffer.
The plant has worked satisfactory up
to this time but the increase in consum D.
tion demands the enlargement OF the
plant and must be considered as an in
digent need in the city.
During the past cold winter only two
hydrants froze up while in larger cities
many hydrants Were frozen depriving
large territory in those cities of fire pro-
lection for some time.
Woirhir1r Of r1o;l