TO CONTROL THE WATER SUPPLY OF MONMOUTH.

TO CONTROL THE WATER SUPPLY OF MONMOUTH.

A dispatch from Freehold., N. J., dated December 19, says that control of the water system of Monmouth, N. J., has been acquired by the recently organized Tintern Manor Water company, which has in process of construction a very large system of waterworks. The company is now erecting a big dam on Swimming river, which rises near Freehold and flows into the Shrewsbury. It is the largest fresh water stream in Monmouth county. The Tintern Manor Water company, it is reported, plans to buy up the water systems of all the seaside towns in Monmouth county—including Long Branch, Sea-bright, Red Bank, Elberon, Deal, Atlantic Highlands, Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and Spring Lake. The company was incorporated last year with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The incorporators are John L. Wentz and Joseph J. Jermyn, both reputed millionaires of Scranton, Pa.; Cecil C. Higgins, of Pound Ridge, N. Y.; Charles D. McGuire, of New York city, and William C. Hendrickson, of Belle Meade, Somerset county. The principal office of the company, is at Eatontown, and the agent is James Steen.

It is expected that the new plant at Swimming river will be in complete operation by next summer. The work of clearing the spot where the main reservoir will be located is under way. The dam is being built across Swimming river below the junction of Yellow and Hop brooks,about six miles east of Freehold. The main dam will be about 600 feet long, forty-one feet high, 235 feet wide at the bottom and fifteen feet wide at the top. At the east end of the dam will be built a spillway or overflow 155 feet long and beyond this will be a smaller dam about ten feet high and 600 feet long, extending into the high ground—making in all a dam 1,355 feet long. The two brooks have an average flow of 68,000,000 gallons daily—a sufficient quantity to supply over 1,000,000 people.