Mount Auburn Cemetery

Indexed

437

Cost of Waterworks in Report 1873.
$1361.29 10% for interest & repair &c.	$1136.13
Engineer's wages 7 months @ $70	490.00
Fireman "[wages] 160 days @ $1⁷⁵	280.00
Coal 33 tons	283.00
oil^$12 Waste ^$5. Fallow ^$2.50	19.50
Grate bars, glass gauge, & cleaning brushes.	11.40
Sundries, tools, & kindlings	42.00
Average annual expense	$2262.03

From May 9^th to Oct 31. it is estimated the fountains were run 150 days, using about one resevoir full pr. day,

Reservoir contains	69.719 Gallons.
8" cylinder, 18" stroke, 40 strokes
No minute, double pump in 4 hours	76,194 Gallons.
[Total water]	145,913 [Gallons]

| |Average no of. Gallons pr day.|

72,856 Galls pr day for 150 days = 10,928,400 Galls at a cost of about 21 cents pr thousand gallons.

Last edit over 2 years ago by Thom Burns