The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-01
Water Works for Middleburg
A. X. Gift Explains How We Can Sc
cure Water Work; Cheap.

cure Water Work; Cheap.
LINCOLN, NEB.. Jan. "a, 1900.
Mr.. ID. a. KERN,
MIDDLEBURGH, PA. =
DEAR FRIEND:-It is some
time now since | heard from yo,k
| will write hoping to receive an
answer. Mrs. Gift and are both
well and have enjoyed good health
ever since we came west. Nebraska
seems to have II healthy climate.
The air is clear and pure. This is
caused by the high altitude. Ne
braska is much higher than pcnna.
We have but very little tevers here
of any kind and not many eases Of
rheumatism.
Lincoln, the capital OF the state,
is Il fine little city, containing now
about 10000 people. The water is
very good and pure. 1t is all well
water, pumped by steam power into
stand pipes or standing reservoirs,
There are three or four such in the
city Of large capacity. The pres
sure is plenty heavy enough for all
purposes in case OF fire. There are
here very good and efficient fire COM
panies. One really ieels more Sc
cure here on account of fire than the
citizens do in Middleburgh, Pa. l
hold that a small town requires fire
protection of some kind as well as
a larger city only on smaller and
cheaper scale. Since l am west
l often think about the unprotected
state Middleburgh and Franklin
are in. There is no occasion for
this at all in towns like Middleburgh
and Franklin, for there is plenty of
water in an underfow under ground
which can be reached by putting
down wells, besides both towns are
partly surrounded by running
streams of water which could be
utilized and using "A stand pipe, by
pumping, but it seems to me the
most economical way to procure a
system of water works to supply
said towns, as fire protection and
for domestic use would he to utilize
the large spring south of the towns
near the green mountain distillery if
a right of way can be procured, by
using underground pipes ofsuiiicicnt
size to Franklin and Middleburgh.
The first step would be to test the
flow of said spring as to how much
per minute. If the supply seems
to be sufficient, the next step should
be to run a line of levels from the
spring to Franklin. thence TO Mid
lleburgh and further to a point
north or northwest from Middle
burgh, to point where the ground
is high enough where reservoir
should be built to procure force
enough that stream thrown would
reach over the town. in case the
spring would be used, it would re-
quire a storage reservoir either at
the spring orr high place north
or northwest Of Middleburg as al
ready noted.
IF the storage reservoir was at the
spring, it would require breast
walls of stone masonry perhaps on
three sides OF sufficient height and
strength to hold the water. This
would IN itself create heavy pres
sure which could be measured by a
competent civil or hydraulic en-
gineer.
If said storage reservoir was at a
point near Middleburgh, it would
merely be scooped outof the ground
and may only require one stone
breast wall on the lower side. This
reservoir would be continually ex-
posed to the sun and become un-
clean and unhealthy during the
summer season. The reservoir at
the spring would be preferable as it
would furnish cleaner, purer and
healthier water.
A water plant, something like
this, would be more economical than
the other plant noted above by
pumping process. 1t wouldrequire
no engine, no engineer to work it,