Annual Water Reports.

Annual Water Reports.

From the annual report of the Lowell, Mass., water board, it appears that the total charges for the year were $236,135.85, of which $215,679.92 was for water. The total expenditures, including $88,825 interest and principal payments, were $211,901.86. This does not include expenditures from the driven well fund, except $10,000 annual payment on that loan. The net receipts credited water-works were $204,238.96. The balance to credit of water-works Jan. 1 is $21,347.60. Balance to credit of driven well account, Jan. 1, is $46,128.68. A comprehensive review of the work upon the driven wel's is given, from which it ap[>ears that the Cook Well Company is to receive in all $24,250 if it successfully supplies the city with 5,(XX?,000 gallons of water daily. Of this amount 25 per cent, is to be paid after temporary tests show a yield of 5,000,000 gallons every 24 hours. After wells are completed, reach the requirements and the water is good and equal to quantity test after 30 days’ pumping, 25 per cent. more. The third 25 per

cent, after three months’ satisfactory trial, and the balance at the end of a year’s trial. The totals in regard to the driven wells have been given. The maintenance account is as follows : Paid salaries, office and inspectors, $10,883.98 ; pumping station, $5,923.05; repairs of meters, $1,242.04; reservoir, $659.61 ; general maintenance and construction, $16,246.88. For construction—Paid for labor, $2,243.72 ; extensions and new construction, $8,634.84 ; for material output as per stock-