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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...comp., coud.. high service pumps and new engine and boiler rooms and six new boilers were added; also 500,000 gall, stand-pipe. Year. Mains. Taps. Meters. Hyd'ts. Cons'pt'n. Cost. B'd'd d'bt. Int. ch's. Exp. Rev. 4,000,000 $125,000 $100, (;00" 4,500,000 350,000 100,000 6,000.000 500.000 100,000 6,000,000 500,000 100.000 6.000,000 500,000 100,000 6,000,000 sno.ooo 100,000 6,000,000 900,000 100,000 7,000,000 1,500.000 750,000 8,000.000 1,750.000 750,000 Financial.--Cap. Stock: authorized $750,000; all paid up; paid 82 div'd in 1890. Feb. 1, '91, authorized stock was increased to $1,000,000, all paid up. Bonded Debt, $750,000 at 52. Expenses, total, $137,500. Revenue, total, $160,000. Management.--Prest.. T. J. Latham, Secy., Lawrence Simpson. Treas., G. W. Macrae. 14. MURFREESBORO, Rutherford Co. (Pop., 3.800-3,739.) Built in'91 by Murfreesboro Water-Works Co. under 33-yrs. franchise. (In '88 a flre-protectiou system was built by town.) Supply.--Springs, pumping to stand-pipe and direct. Stand-Pipe.-Is 20 X 20 ft. Distribution.--Mains, 6-in. i. Hydrants, 20. Financial.--Cost, $7,000. Cap. Stock, $20,000. Revenue: consumers, not determined; city, $1,000. Hickman Weakley. Secy, and Supt., J. E. Thompson. Management.--Prest. Report by F. B. Selphi. 15. NASHVILLE, Davidson Co. (Pop., 43,350-76,168.) Built in '32 by city. Supply.-Cumberland River, pumping to stand-pipe and reservoir. Fiscal year closes Oct. 1. A 10,003,000-gall. Worthingtou pumping engine was added in 'flO or '91, and a new intake pipe was laid in the bed of the Cumberland River. The pipe is 48 ins. in diameter and 1,750 ft. long. At the river end it terminates in a crib 8 ft. inside diameter, about 60 ft. high. See note below. B'd'd d't. Cons'pt'n. 3.736.000 6,000,000 75,000 525,000 00.1.000 ...
