New York State Water News.
The greatest water famine that has been experienced in the Hudson and Walkill valleys and the Catskills in generations is that of today. At Cornwall-on-the-Hudson water is being retailed at 13 cents a gallon; at Middletown, in the centre of the Sullivan county dairy district, the dairymen are driving cows 6 and to miles to water; at New Paltz, Ulster county, the water department is supplying water only four hours a day, while at Highland Falls the inhabitants would be absolutely without water were it not for the United States government, which has allowed the citizens there to tap one of the big water mains that connects West Point with its mountain water supply.
The water at Highland Falls gave out about ten days ago when the water company notified its patrons that the reservoirs were dry, and the only chance of getting water for any purpose whatever thereabout depended on the generosity of the Government. Col. Scott, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was communicated with, and, as soon as the situation was made plain to him, he issued orders that one of the West Point mains was to be tapped. Col. Scott required a promise from the water company at Highland Falls that no charge would be made for water in that village so long as the Government supplied it.
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