Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-23
GIGANTIC WATER
SUPPLY SYSTEM
FOR GOTHAM
HUGE PLANT TO COST NEW
YORK Sf6t,000,0 900
viii Have Capacity of
900, 100000 Gallons a Day.
Plans for National Highway
to the Pacific,


to the Pacific,
Especial Correspondence Morning Journal
New York June ea- Mayor Mcclellan b.
thf simple expedient II sticking q spade int
the ground at peekHkltl this week and turn
ing over q sod. formally iuauRurated worl
coz the new water supply system for New
york Which VIII be the most tremendoul
over under taken. r viii exceed the saci
canal IN cost with q total OF si6t 600, 900
aud il 90 ultimately furnish the city witt
o mere trie pf 800. 600. 600 gallons Of watcl
daily. in addition 30 It's present supply. s.
great Is the -u1usumntlen ~ water here. that
one after another an the available stream'
and watershedH IN the Immediately Niclntts
huso been exhausted. aud the problem 0i
getting the necessary supply has assumed
more and more serious proportions. AZ a
result the greatest undertaking. ever at
tempted for such "a purpose Is now undei
way II involves nothing less than the
transfer nation - q whole countryside, To-
9ethor with tunnel aaueduct, ahd reservoir
constructions on % gigantic scale The
watcr wili now l80 miles from the farthest
limits u the supply a. the fountafu In city
HaIl park and The watersheds to be drained
have an area 81 more tbah BOO square miles
a filter plant so acres ina extent and two
reservoirs, enc ~ thcm having a capacity 81
1aa 0o0. 600. GEO gallons and the other f0.
600 01N 600 will be the features 81 The work
me larger reservoir when WIZ e'i's't tn'
water Supply from half a dozen smaller
ones viii he ~ miles Ions by g miles Wide,
while the smaller one VIII necessitate the
removal ~ the entire village of Keusico. In
Guiding many old homosteads whore families
huNe ifed Tor generations. The great adue
duel e9hFesins the wafer GO lhe CIV VIII
have "a bore larger than the subway and will
laHs under the Hudson river ai "a dtpth or
90 feet OF course New York does not ex-
peti o. drink az OF me water some 81 y
VIII ie used Tor bathing purposes. ana street
'leHhinE commissioner traNen is OF the
opinion mat tine Hifeais also shoHbd De
washed every das an operation demanding
the ennisntH oI a small lake.
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About the Fourth or july Ezra Meeker
who han come out ~ the farthest West In
4 prairie schooner drawn by oxen. expects
a. las before President Roosevelt at Ovste
Hay a plan FOR the oeerthraw Of Mr.. liar
rfnan and fhe salutfen ~ the arohtem 81
railroad monopoly in the United states
which deserves careful consideration The
plan coutempiates nothing less than the con.
Rtrurtieh ~ u great continental roadway
from the Missouri River 20 PUGET Sound
over The line 81 the old oregon TRAIT" and
possibly continuing east ward from the Mis-
sissippi. To- the Atlantic seaboard over the
Old Cumberland pike, a national road built
by The federal government 10 the early part
~ the niueteenih century Twice Mr.
Moeker has travelled the trait lr an OK
wagon The fret time was in 1851 when be
left Indianapolis and crossed TO- Puget
sound a Few years ago he conyoived tn
idea Of returning east over The same route
and interesting tine inhabitants ~ the J
towns along the way In erecting monuments F.
90 mnrk historic pointa along the old high-
way 10 set out WITH HIS as-team and the
original prairie schooner in January. 1895
After reaching his MID hNnta uF IudftpaU offH ]