贝灵汉湾供水系统。

贝灵汉湾供水系统。

Sehome and Whatcom, writes a correspondent at Seattle, Wash., are soon to enjoy the advantages of as fine a system of water-works as can be found in the country. Nature must have contemplated the building of a large city on Bellingham bay, for she could hardly have improved upon Lake Whatcom as a source of water supply. The lake is eleven miles long and two in breadth at the widest part. It is of great depth and its waters are of the purest. Steep, forest-clad hills and snowcovered mountains surround it. The elevation of the lake aliove Bellingham Bay is 312 1/2 feet at the lake’s lowest stage. With such a fall the water brought in pipes to the bay is given a tremendous gravity pressure; capable of throwing a stream over any building in either town. The Bellingham Bay Water Company was organized with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of utilizing these advantages, four-fifths of the stock being held hy stockholders of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad Company. The company have already expended some $80,000 on their system, which is designed to supply both Sehome and Whatcom, and now have it so far completed that water could be delivered in town within a day’s notice. A force of forty-five men are at work upon it, and in a few more weeks the "Bay Cities" will be using Lake Whatcom water. All that remains to be done is putting in the distribution service in town. The necessary piping, hydrants, etc., for this are already here. The water is taken from near the foot of the lake and seven feet below the surface. It is brought in an eight-inch steel pipe to the reservoir (to be completed next summer, but dispensed with for the present); thence it is brought to an eleven-inch steel pipe the remaining mile and a half into town. The reservoir will be 295 feet above tide water. The company are to supply water for all city purposes free of charge, and to private patrons on terms which shall be considered reasonable by the city councils.

Sehome and Whatcom, writes a correspondent at Seattle, Wash., are soon to enjoy the advantages of as fine a system of water-works as can be found in the country. Nature must have contemplated the building of a large city on Bellingham bay, for she could hardly have improved upon Lake Whatcom as a source of water supply. The lake is eleven miles long and two in breadth at the widest part. It is of great depth and its waters are of the purest. Steep, forest-clad hills and snowcovered mountains surround it. The elevation of the lake aliove Bellingham Bay is 312 1/2 feet at the lake’s lowest stage. With such a fall the water brought in pipes to the bay is given a tremendous gravity pressure; capable of throwing a stream over any building in either town. The Bellingham Bay Water Company was organized with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of utilizing these advantages, four-fifths of the stock being held hy stockholders of the Bellingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad Company. The company have already expended some $80,000 on their system, which is designed to supply both Sehome and Whatcom, and now have it so far completed that water could be delivered in town within a day’s notice. A force of forty-five men are at work upon it, and in a few more weeks the "Bay Cities" will be using Lake Whatcom water. All that remains to be done is putting in the distribution service in town. The necessary piping, hydrants, etc., for this are already here. The water is taken from near the foot of the lake and seven feet below the surface. It is brought in an eight-inch steel pipe to the reservoir (to be completed next summer, but dispensed with for the present); thence it is brought to an eleven-inch steel pipe the remaining mile and a half into town. The reservoir will be 295 feet above tide water. The company are to supply water for all city purposes free of charge, and to private patrons on terms which shall be considered reasonable by the city councils.