THE USE OF METERS.
Dabney H. Maury, Jr., superintendent of the Peoria, Ill., Water company, says in relation to the question of water meters:
I am strongly in favor of the general introduction of meters, as offering the only means by which the average pumping plant can keep up with the demand of its consumers, and I should not like to be understood as arguing against their use. But the matter costs somebody, either the water company, the water department, or the consumer, as the case may be, and according to who pays for it, a great deal of money; and it is well to know how much.
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