The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-11

Big Beaverkill sometimes called the Mink
Hollow stream, which flows through the
door yard Of Dan Sully (the Irish oomedian)
summer home, the Stony Glove Creek and
its branches. Forest Valley Creek. Birch
the Warner Kill. Most Of these streams
alone would furnish water enough for city
Of half million inhabitants and have some
to spare. The only one here mentioned
from which water is now taken above the
proposed dam is Birch Creek, on which
the Pine Hill watsrworks are situated. A
twenty-inch pipe line from near the head
waters OF the Mink Hollow stream. near
Sully's. to Cooper's Lake also leads to tho
reserve reservoir Of the Kingston water
works.
1t u calculated that this great reservoir
could furnish to New York city 800, 900 900
gallons Of water day and yet not lower the
water sufficient to stop the overflow OF the
waste gate. But, to provide against a
possible emergency when even this great
supply Of water might prove insufficient,
further pounds or reservoirs are under con-
sideration. These. as yet, have been only
specifically surveyed The sites lie further
where, at a small cost, can be built numerous
reservoirs. in which can be stored water
enough to supply New York city for six
months without drawing drop from any
ether source 1t is intended merely to
open the gates Of these upper water pounds
and let their contents run into the Esopus,
and thus down into the great Shokan reser-
yoir
There is also a greater scheme still, to
further increase the supply Of water in
the Esopus Valley. A tunnel thirteen
miles long, large enough to carry battery
of four-foot iron pipes. is projected to pierce
the Shandaken and Westkill ranges Of
mountains and by building great dams on
the Westkill and schoharie creeks. to
turn their waters through the tunnel under
the mountains and empty their volume
into the Esopus Creek in the eastern water
shed of the Catskills, 1t has not been de-
cided to be necessary to build this tunnel
In case it is built the water brought through
it would be from streams that flow both
southwark to the Delaware and north
ward to the Mohawk.
Should the city decide to go on with this
stupendous engineering project the ques-
ton Of damages and recompense will be a
long and serious one. Every inch of ground
condemned must be paid for. Many mill
ing interests would want enormous dam
ages 1t is believed that enough water
won d be diverted from It's natural channel
absolutely to ruin the great paper mills
at Saugerties. Operating there now are
the mills of the Martin Cantine Co., the
Old Sheffield Mills, the Saugerties Blank
Book Company and several other concerns
holding riparian rights The Saugerties
water power is one Of the fines t in the State,
and if the waters of the Esopiis and its
tributaries are diverted it will be ruined
At Glen Erie, five miles south of SAUCER
ties stand the great Battelle White Lead
Works, idle for more than a dozen years,
Here is another. fine water power, the
water descending in a series Of falls fully
fifty feet. Although this magnificent
water power does not at present turn a
wheel, the owners may be expected to de-
mand damages for all their property is
worth,
At Boiceville are the great wood pulp
mills Of the American Wood Pulp Company.
The reservoir wipes them out entirely.
There are a dozen other milling interes 8
which also must be reckoned with.
The Ulster and Delaware Railroad Com
pany, a wealthy and powerful corporation,
will have to be pacated. Their railroad
will be practically wiped out from West
Hurley to Mount Pleasant. Its line will
have to be changed so as TO run from the
present stopping place at Bristol Hill TO
Woods, ocls and thence to Bearsville and
Yankeet own, through the valley OF the Big
Beaverkil TO Mount Pleasant. Some OF its
best paying stations would be wiped out,
but it would bring the beautiful Woodstock
Valley within railway communication and