New and Improved Water-works.

New and Improved Water-works.

HAVERSTRAW, N. Y.—John Lockwood, president of the West Haverstraw Water Company, writes us as follows: “The company was organized in 1888, with a view of supplying the village of West Haverstraw and Grassy Point, in the town of Haverstraw, as well as supplying the village of Haverstraw all by gravity. The company agreed to build a dam on the Minnesing creek, which supplies the Garner print works at Gamerville in Rockland county, for the purpose of storing their water to be used during the dry periods in the summer season as compensation for taking the water from a stream which is supplied from what is known as Dorman springs. This dam has been built, is 250 feet in length and 20 feet high, and will contain some 600,000,000 gallons. Another dam was built on the Dorman stream 175 feet in length and 15 feet high, furnishing a storage capacity of about 2,000,000 gallons. This reservoir is three miles from the village of Haverstraw ; elevation, 265 feet. The Haverstraw Water Company has taken a lease of the West Haverstraw works for ninetynine years, and the whole territory is now supplied by gravity, the pumping machinery of the Haverstraw works being all abandoned. The cost of the new works amounted to some $60,000.

ONE of the most marvelous pieces of hydraulic machinery in the world has been placed in a rolling-mill at Sharon, Pa. It is the invention of Mr. Mattocks of Pittsburgh, and is designed for rolling pipe iron. Huge slabs of iron weighing hundreds of pounds are pulled from the furnace glowing at white heat, and placed on a long iron bed which moves forward, upward, downward and sideways, pushing the mass through rolls, back again, and stopping only when it has been reduced to proper size in the shape of pipe iron. The whole operation requires the attendence of only one or two employees, who control the machinery by a few simple levers.