The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-15
BIG WATER SYSTEM
NATIONS WONDER
New York'S Supply To Be Con-
veyed Ninety-TWo
Miles.
ENOUGH FOR TEN MILLION
AsHoKAN RESERVOIR TO HOLD
127,OOO,OOO,OOO GALLONS.

New YORK sept. IA hundred years
after the advent Of Christ The great
engineers OF Rome constructed an
Uuueduct 90 bring pure water into tho
Eternal city over mlEHty arches ~
masonry. which sim stand az monu-
luruts 60 tNrir genius and skill soon
Rome boastcd fourteen ~ those aerial
varFrU-aNs running miles and miles
THe Tmperiai CITY OF America is Dor
3uE .nt1 The earth for the same par
Posse tEat Rome built aloft 4 dozen
miles back Of thc sleepy Hudson valley
town q Kingston. the city Of New
prt has begun tu build tho greatest
o.. itIr. HI reservoir IN the world. TO
briUl its billions Of gallons OF water
Into tfo city. modern engineers are
diEriuf. out tunnel which viii cost
hall nH much as the Panama canal. and
which 10 VIII rival In mechanical COM
pliCafious.
New York is preparing 10 furnish
water to ten million city" To say
that the new Aruokan reservoir. when
completed. VIII hold 10000. 100000 sal
Ions of water means little % the
That thig single reservoir. when com
glrtc. viii Do n great lake among the
hills. twelve miles long and two miles
wide. That the nlling ~ it VII take
sou begin fo get "a measure or the task.
1000 LnhorrrS on Project.
And when you realize further that
tniE great body OF water. once coopcd
up iu this reservoir. is 60 be- brought
into fhn cIfv and fributcd. YOU
gather the FUN significance OF the job
the engineers have set FOR them
Today more than 900 Iaborcrs are
working on Che monster project.
Late I'm 1915 the water d. TO be- turned
into thc two basins % the reservoir.
Tho uiuety-two mile long auucduct.
under mountains AMI great rivers. viii
D. completed hy the same timc-and
rev York may fill her cup 90 over
In 1905 a commission was appointed
60 plan a water supply for a. ten mill
lion city. The water supply had 20
bc secured IN New York stutc-to get
water from another state would have
caused litigation. The CatEigills looked
best. It WAS found that "a total water
Fhed 81 200 square miles. capable OF
supplying 7so.eoo.0o0 gallons OF water
daily. was available. 10 was ninety
two miles fp New Nork's do0r-utucfy-
,tr -i.-. .'.,, , il,,. 80 ,,-.,t
river. But the cnginecrs said a. could
h. done. and 60 g. being done.
HiEE~r ThHn EEypt'~ pyrHmid--
Tire h~hokan reservoir viii De the
tenn. So inEcniously is o. planned that
The natural hills viii make up nine
zenith will be I'm tho form or great
dykes. save FOR the keystone OF the
Tntiro structure the Ashokan dam now
creek. Several good sized towns VIII
br covered hv 100 feet or water when
tbs monster dam holds back the water
if o. Co.. imurisDn. Thirty five Ccme-
tories had to So moved Between the
village were hundreds Of farm houses.
Evcrr one bad 90 go Even trees ana
uuderhru=h are 20 be cleared away, FOR
Gotham must have her mighty drink.
Tho great AEhOk1n dam starts at
Browne station. Tn "a few years mil
lions who never heard OF Brown sta
fi0u will come to see Americas great
ref engineering feat. Five thousand
men are building the dam. They have
their clubs. their bank. their homes.
their police force. their churches.
when you pass through Browns sta
zion YOU come 90 the edge OF the gorge
OF EsouuE creek and peer down the
sides. % Tho growing dam. n o. a
gorge. wide as well as dept ig
nearly q mile across The dam will
rise 200 feet above tho water level ~
the creek AZ its base it viii be 100
feet thick st ifg crest it viii carry
n J0-f1ot roadway. The engineers tell
you if contains eight shines more ma