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ONE more step has been taken towards the enlargement of Atlanta’s water supply system, the water-works committee, after a careful consideration of the different schemes proposed, having decided in favor of erecting the new pumping station on the Chattahoochee river and taking the additional supply from that stream. With that point settled, and the engines and other material contracted for, it only now remains to satisfactorily settle the question of the legality of the issue of bonds, and the citizens of the Georgia capital will at last be assured of a bountiful supply of water for years to come.
THE water-works agony at San Antonio, Tex., is over, at least for’the present. For a month or so past the chief topic of discussion in the local newspapers has been the proposition of the owners of the water-works to sell the whole plant, together with a tract of land, to the city for the sum of $2,000,000. The discussion of the question whether to accept this offer or not has been heated, and it was supposed that the vote upon it would be a close one, but at the election, which took place the other day, the advocates of the purchase of the works found themselves beaten by a vote of 1216 to 575. It is explained by the beaten party that their friends took more interest in the opening of the fair than in the water supply question; upon the face of it, however, the result of the election would seem to indicate that the idea of the municipal ownership and operation of water-works was not accepted kindly at San Antonio.
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