MILWAUKEE’S WATER WORKS.

MILWAUKEE’S WATER WORKS.

水在密尔沃基,威斯康星州。,东西保存g that goes with them, includingthe new intake tunnel, have necessitated, since they were started in 1871, a total net expenditure of $4,432,642. For the construction of these works the city from time to time issued bonds bearing four, five and seven per cent, interest. The total amount of bonds thus issued was $2,638,750, which, in addition to their face value, brought premiums aggregating $354,793. All these moneys went into the construction of the water works. The amount levied against private property in the form of water pipe as sessments, the proceeds of which went for the laying of water mains, has been since 1871, $1,215,188. The total expenditures for the laying of water mains over since then has been $2,683,861, so that the city at large has expended on the 276,008 miles of water mains which it contains the sum of $1,468,673, private property owners having contributed towards this improvement less than half the actual cost. This total expenditure of nearly $2,684,000 must also be figured in the cost of the water works.

The expenditures for the construction of the water works are distributed as follows: The reservoir has cost $152,989; the North Point Pumping works, buildings and grounds, $361,037; the machinery at these works, $360,963; the high service works on North avenue. $146,782; for both building and machinery; the old works on Chestnut street, now torn down, $51,418. The North avenue bridge had to be built by the water department, or rather from the funds of the water department, for a connection between the water works on the Lake and the reservoir had to be established. The bridge necessitated an additional outlay of $88,779; the sum of $78,689.67 went toward payment of the salaries of the engineers who planned and laid out the system, and quite recently the sum of over $508,000 has been expended on the new intake.