NEW WATER SUPPLY FOR HELENA
Helena, Mont., is determined on having a new water supply, and apparently the company charged with the work will be the Congress Construction company, of Chicago, whose bid was $579,000. The new supply will be by gravity through a pipe line some twenty-four miles long, composed of wood stave and vitrified pipe, and $6,800 feet of twenty-fourinch steel pipe. There will be about forty miles of pipe within the city. Mr. Charles W. Helmick is city engineer of Helena, and Mr. Jas. D. Schuyler, of Los Angeles, has been consulting engineer. Sixteen years ago a water supply was introduced in Helena by private companies which consolidated in 1889. Between these companies and the city authorities there has been constant litigation for several years past.
Charlotte. N. C.. can now go ahead with the necessary improvements on its waterworks system. That it has been enabled to do so is the outcome of a decision in a friendly suit in the Superior Court of North Carolina to determine the legality of the issuance of bonds by the board of water commissioners without a vote of the people, pledging the receipts of the plant to pay interest and provide for a sinking fund.
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