WATER PURIFYING PLANTS.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is making extensive improvements in connection with the supply of water for use in its locomotives. President Murray has recently authorised improvements on the line of the system between Connellsville and Pittsburg, which includes the establishing of water-treating plants at Emblem and Glenwood, Pa., to eliminate the acids, etc., from the river waters used. This work will cost in the neighborhood of $150,000. The recent annual droughts in the neighborhood of Columbus district have resulted in the river water becoming badly contaminated and polluted by the refuse from mines, mills and decaying of animal and vegetable matter, and this has resulted not only in the scarcity of supply, but in a water that is entirely unfit for locomotive purposes. The consequence has been an unlimited expense and delay in the handling and maintenance of power, and in the movement of traffic. A 50,000-gallon tank will also be installed at Bessemer, Pa., a gravity water supply established at Lodema, Pa., on the Cumberland division; a dam will be built across Higher river; and an additional water tank will be constructed at Cornwallis, W. Va.
The headquarters of the Isthmus Canal Commission will be moved from Washington, D. C , to the isthmus.
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