WATER SUPPLY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

WATER SUPPLY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

The Tuolumne river has been officially reported as offering the best source of San Francisco’s proposed water supply. The present demand of the city does not exceed 30,000,000 gallons a day, and it is confidently asserted that from the Tuolumne 60,000.000 gallons a day can easily be obtained. The source of supply is lake Eleanor, on the Tuolumne river, with dams there and a Hetch-Hetchy, just below. A canal and a watershed are to carry the supply to where a forty-eight-inch water pipe runs through the San Joaquin valley to Altamont, with pumping stations at Bear gulch and Dry creek. The city distributing stations are put in the report as No. t. No. 2, Eighteenth street. Twenty-fourth street. Lone mountain. Holly Park, University street, and Ocean View. Their exact location is not named. The estimate of cost places the total expense of bringing 60,000,000 gallons of water per day to the city at $30,724,000. The distributing system is to cost $1,057,000. The city pumping stations can be erected for $5,318,560. The laying of pipes, building of gates, digging of tunnels, erection of repair shops, purchase of city real estate, and incidental items bring the total up to $39,531,000. The estimated cost of maintenance is $585,200, and the city is asked to vote $40,000,000 in three and a half per cent, bonds. If the Tuolumne source is adopted, certain properties of the Spring Valley Water company, now used in the supply of water, will thereby be rendered useless to that company, but may he incorporated in the new system to advantage. The established works, in part at least, may be retained in service, and the new works may supplement that part of the Spring Valiev system wEch can be so retained. This fact should not be lost sight of in negotiating for the established works, as required by law.

The following arc the newly elected officers of the Genesee and Wyoming County Volunteer Firemen’s association, which recently held its annual convention at Batavia. N. Y.: President, Thomas H. Donnelly. Perry; first viceprcsident, Lewis B. Stcuber. Le Roy; second vicepresident, F. J. Kearney. Warsaw; treasurer. Harry Robinson Bristol, Warsaw; secretary, Edward F. Short Batavia.