Sewer Statistics of the Principal Cities in the United States of America.
Of all the cities, New York takes the lead in proportion to her area. During the year of 1888 there were no less than 29,945 linial feet of street mains put down at a total cost of $459,694. The mileage of main sewers in all, at the end of that year, in that city, made up the grand total of 429 miles; or in length, the distance from New York to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The city of Chicago, however, comes in for the greatest sum for her drainage. The main sewers laid in 1888 measure twenty miles, and cost the city $228,567. The total length of main sewers make up a figure of 248 miles of vitrified stoneware sewers, or a grand total of 492 miles.
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