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The expenditure is provided for in the estimates for the year.
An appropriation of $11,200, for roads and bridges, is recom- mended.
NEW ROADS.
CR.
By appropriation $208 41
appropriation 8,400 00
DR. $8,608 41
To balance from old account. $208 41
Widening Main Street, award paid County 8,000 00
Payments in 1887 232 50
8,440 91
Undrawn
$167 50
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The work on new roads has been confined to the working of Bartlett and Centennial streets for which $232.50 was ex- pended.
The sum of $8,000 was paid to the County as the amount assessed upon the Town for its proportion of awards for dam- ages occasioned by the widening of Main Street.
The County Commissioners, in 1886, changed the grade of Pleasant Street, and widened South Street, serving a notice on the Town to complete the work before Sept. 1, 1887. More pressing work elsewhere, prevented the working within the time ordered, and delayed action until the coming year. An order of notice has recently been served on the Town by the Commis- sioners, cutting down the grade of the hill beyond the house of Barnabas Hedge, reducing the grade six feet at the highest point, and extending north and south, until it comes to grade ; also widening the highway into the pond, involving in the change lengthening and construction of two stone bridges, taking up and relaying the water pipes for several hundred feet, same to be done to the satisfaction of the Commissioners before Sept. 1st of the present year.
No allowance has been made by the Commissioners towards reimbursing the Town for any portion of the expense, although the improvement, if any, accrues to the public, and as such should not be wholly borne by the Town.
The Selectmen have laid out the way leading from Allerton Street, through Highland Place to Davis Street, which is prac- tically an extension of Vernon Street. No claim is made for land damage, and the only expense will be in working, it being already partially graded ; same will be reported to the Town at the annual meeting.
It is difficult to estimate the cost making the road as ordered by the Commissioners at the north part of the Town, owing to the obstructions which may be found in widening the bridges,
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changing water pipes, etc. The Selectmen are of opinion that an appropriation of $2,000, at least, will be needed as an appro- priation for new roads in case the Town shall instruct them to complete the work the present year.
WATER WORKS.
CR.
Dec. 31, 1886. By balance from old account .. $2,773 11
Receipts from water rents, labor and materials for repairs . 15,455 04
$18,228 15
CONTRA, DR.
To payments in 1887
$14,128 24
Balance of income $4,099 91
To amount transferred to double service account
4,000 00
Undrawn balance $99 91
WATER WORKS, DOUBLE SERVICE. INCLUDING RESERVOIR. DR.
To payments in 1887 . ...
$35,983 42
To payments for reservoir, 1887 7,224 06
$43,207 48
CR.
By-
Transfer from water works $4,000 00
Sale of bonds.
39,000 00
Premium on bonds
780 00
Accrued interest
78 00
43,858 00
Undrawn
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To payments in 1887, double service $35,983 62
reservoir, 1887
7,224 06
reservoir, 1886
5,254 20
$48,461 88
LESS.
Credits as above
$43,858 00
Overdrawn balance $4,603 88
The net income from Water Works' for the year has been $3,826.80, being balance of Water Works account, viz. $4,099.91, less $273.11, which remained as an item of credit. After the sum of $2,500 had been paid over to the sinking fund, and charged against the balance of $2,773.11, which remained to the credit of the account when the books were closed Dec. 31, 1886.
The net expenditure for Water Works in 1887, has been $11,- 628.24, the difference between this sum and $14,128.24 in the preceding statement, being the sum of $2,500, drawn from and charged Water Works account.
The fixed charges will be increased the present year in the sum of $2,860, to provide for the interest and sinking fund re- quirements, on account of the new loan.
Taking as a basis, the receipts and expenditures of last year, with the additional charges to be incurred, will leave about $1,000 only as net income from the Works. Any unusual expenses will draw from this margin, and from present indications, not much dependence can be placed on any net income being avail- able the present year.
The vote of the Town to increase its supply of water, has been carried into effect by the Commissioners, and the result shows an expenditure of $48,461.88, which exceeds the esti- mates $9,461.88, the increased size of the main pipe from four- teen to sixteen inches from the pond to the Pumping Station, over what was originally intended, and the increased cost of the
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reservoir over estimates, account for the larger part of the in- creased cost of the system.
Under a vote of the Town, the Selectmen were authorized to negotiate a loan for $39,000, on a limit of thirty years, $1,300 becoming due, and payable annually as a sinking fund, to retire the loan at maturity.
The loan was awarded to the North Adams Savings Bank, as the highest bidder, at a premiun of 2 per cent., which with the accured interest between the date, and delivery of the bonds, amounting to $39,858.00, has been credited to the account. An additional sum of $4,000 from the balance standing to the credit of Water Works has been placed to the credit of the same ac. count, leaving a deficiency of $4,603.88, which the Selectmen recommended be provided for by including in the taxes the present year.
The sinking fund to provide for the loan becoming due in 1890, now amounts to $8,257.95, the amount due this fund from balance of Water Works account, it was deemed advisable to apply to the overdraft on the double service, and trust to the income from the fund and Water Works for the remaining time to supply the balance.
LIGHTING STREETS AND TOWN HOUSE.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account $292 99
Appropriation 1,800 00
Reimbursement 3 00
Appropriation . 700 00
$2,795 99
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CONTRA, DR.
To payment for electric lights $1,190 00
Gas lights
890 49
Kerosene oil and repairs
225 81
$2,306 30
Undrawn $489 69
The number of street lights has been increased by the addi- tion of seven electric lights from Aug. 1, and the addition of three gas lights over the number discontinued by the electric lights in the south part of the Town. The present number of electric lights is fourteen, costing $1,680 annually. Of gas lights, 43 costing $806 annually, and thirteen lights burning oil or illum- inating gas, costing $170 annually. Gas furnished the town house and repairs, about $150, making the whole cost for the year under the present method, about $2,800. An appropria- tion of $2,400, in addition to the balance to the credit of the account, will be required in case no change is made from the present method.
CONTINGENT.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account $129 28
3,000 00
Appropriation
Miscellaneous receipts 38 69
Sale of sewer rights 255 40
$3,423 37
CONTRA, DR.
To payments, viz :-
Services Town Clerk. $167 35
Coal bills for town house
115 37
Postage and stationery 66 47
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Janitor for town house $130 20
Expenses, Board of Health 371 89
Bills for printing 439 15
Bills for fires in the woods 322 10
Town Forester and labor triming trees 135 55
Grand Army, Memorial Day .
125 00
Services, Board of Registration
100 00
Legal services
87 00
Return of births
41 25
Return of deaths 40 00
C. G. Davis, rent of hall, two years
150 00
Odd Fellows, rent of hall 59 00
Tellers, etc., town meetings
13 20
Moderator, annual meeting
10 00
Guide boards and painting
31 26
Repairs, lock-up 12 64
Repairs in town house
91 06
Painting lamp-posts
17 70
Care town clock.
25 00
Weston's Express
5 70
Land rent for pound
1 00
Surveying for sewers, etc
10 00
Inland fisheries
3 00
Labor on stand-pipes
4 00
Carriage hire
6 00
Shutting off water from stand-pipes and repairs on same, and drinking fountains
9 50
Sundries 40 02
Services of Selectmen 730 00
$3,360 41
Undrawn
$62 96
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SCHOOLS.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account $239 78
appropriation 23,800 00
School fund from State Mass
82 85
appropriation, evening school
300 00
interest from Murdock fund
18 25
reimbursements.
24 68
sale of school-house lot, Summer Street. 100 00
$24,565 56
DR.
To payments in 1887 $23,677 61
Undrawn
$887 95
POOR.
To payments in 1887
$8,657 88
CR.
By appropriation $7,000 00
reinbursements. 1,494 63
interest from Murdock fund. 18 25
8,512 88
Overdrawn $145 00
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INSANE POOR.
Dec. 31, 1886. DR.
To balance from old account.
$31 00
payments.
3,200 86
$3,231 86
CR.
By appropriation
$2,000.00
reimbursements
827 04
2,827 04
Overdrawn
$404 82
The present number of insane in the hospitals is seventeen, most of which are wholly supported by the Town. To provide for the present number for the year will require an appropria- tion of $2,800, which is recommended.
VINE HILLS CEMETERY.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account
$459 93
sale of lots in 1887 253 35
$713 28
DR.
To payments in 1887
111 24
Undrawn $602 04
There have been sold during the year fifteen lots, from which has been received $253.35. There is due for three lots sold, but not paid for, $34.
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WATCH AND POLICE.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By appropriation
$1,250 00
balance from old account
41 18
reimbursement
100 00
$1,391 18
CONTRA, DR.
To payments in 1887
1,361 47
Undrawn.
$29 71
WARREN FUND
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account
$1,064 93
interest
50 00
$1,114 93
CONTRA, DR.
To payments in 1887
$100 00
Undrawn.
$1,014 93
BURIAL HILL.
DR.
To payments in 1887
. .. . $292 33
CR.
By appropriation
$150 00
reimbursement
100 00
250 00
Overdrawn
$42 33
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The overdraft in this department was owing to the necessity which arose after the estimates for the year were made, of con- structing a supporting wall and fence adjoining the land of Mr. Baumgartner, on the westerly side of the hill.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
DR.
To payments in 1887
$6,165 78
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account
$649 42
appropriation
2,400 00
appropriation
2,500 00
reimbursements
30 44
5,579 86
Overdrawn
$585 92
The overdraft in this department has been incurred in setting six additional hydrants on the new water pipes, re-lining two re- servoirs and repairs on the engine house, which were not con- templated when the appropriation was made, and equals the overdraft.
An appropriation of $3,200 for the expenses of the current year is recommended.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account $8 99
appropriation 500 00
$508 99
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To paid Collector, collecting $1,615.75,
taxes of 1885, $5,561.95, taxes of 1886-$7,177.70, at 1 per cent $71 78
Salary 500 00
$571 78
Less 1 per cent on $9,417.88, taxes of
1887, uncollected 94 17
$477 61
Undrawn
$31 38
TREASURER.
CR.
By appropriation
$600 00
DR.
To payments in 1887
$600 00
SEXTON.
CR.
By appropriation
$125 00
To payments in 1887
$125 00
ABATEMENTS.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account $766 49
overlay
1,173 59
DR.
$1,940 08
To tax Isaac B. White, refunded $264 96
abatements, 1887 1,047 98
1,312 94
Undrawn
$627 14
DR.
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ASSESSORS.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance of account
$139 60
appropriation
675 00
$814 60
DR.
To payments in 1387
736 36
Undrawn
$78 24
DUXBURY & COHASSET RAILROAD SINKING
FUND.
CR
By appropriation
$1,500 00
DR.
To payment on note at Plymouth Savings
Bank. $750 00
To payment on note at Plymouth Five
Cents Savings Bank
750 00
$1,500 00
TRAINING GREEN FUND.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account
$732 07
income
29 71
Undrawn $761 78
25 MURDOCK FUND.
CR.
By balance
$730 00
interest . . 36 50
$736 50
DR.
To payment to poor department .
$18 25
payment to school department. 18 25
36 50
Balance
$730 00
SUPPRESSION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
CR.
By appropriation
$1,000 00
DR.
To payments in 1887
219 50
Undrawn
$780 50
FRESH BROOK FISHERY.
Dec. 31, 1886. CR.
By balance from old account
$4 92
GUIDE BOARDS.
The guide boards of the Town are same as reported last year, with the additions as recommended, and are reported in good condition.
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APPROPRIATIONS.
Schools $22,000 00
School books and supplies 1,800 00
Town debt and interest
2,500 00
Roads and bridges
10,200 00
Improvement of sidewalks
1,000 00
Fire department 3,200 00
Watch and police. 1,425 00
Lighting streets and town house
2,400 00
Insane poor
2,800 00
New roads.
2,000 00
Contingent
4,000 00
Poor 7,000 00
Assessors
825 00
Collector of Taxes 500 00
Treasurer 600 00
Duxbury & Cohasset R. R. sinking fund
1,500 00
Sexton .
125 00
Burial Hill 250 00
$64,125 00
DEFICIENCIES.
Fire department
$585 92
Poor
145 00
Indigent aid
654 61
Insane poor
404 82
Copying town records 170 00
Water Works, double service 4,603 88
6,564 23
$70,689 23
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The revenue not otherwise appropriated is estimated as fol- lows :
Corporation taxes
$5,500 00
Bank taxes
2,000 00
Miscellaneous receipts
300 00
7,800 00
$62,889 20
Leaving the sum of sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-nine and 20-100 dollars, which it is recommended be raised by taxation for the expenses of the current year, being $251.78 in excess of last year.
WILLIAM H. NELSON,
L. T. ROBBINS, Selectmen
WINSLOW B. STANDISH, of Plymouth.
EVERETT F. SHERMAN,
JOHN CHURCHILL,
PLYMOUTH, February 11, 1888.
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VALUATION.
Real estate $3,395,801 64
Personal property . 1,763,154 60
Total valuation $5,158,956 24
Gain in real estate
$163,054 60
Gain in personal 80,176 64
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Number of polls, 2,005.
Number of horses, 642.
Number of cows, 442.
Number of sheep, 35.
Number of dwelling-houses, 1,337.
Number of acres of land taxed, 50,790.
Rate of taxation, $14.80 per $1,000.
Number of persons paying property tax, 1771. Number of persons paying poll tax only, 1120.
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REPORTS.
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
NATHANIEL MORTON-Term expires March, 1888. EVERETT F. SHERMAN-Term expires March, 1888. CHARLES S. DAVIS-Term expires March, 1889. SAMUEL H. DOTEN-Term expires March, 1890. HORACE P. BAILEY-Term expires March, 1890.
SUPERINTENDENT-Richard W. Bagnell. WATER REGISTRAR-William T. Hollis.
CHIEF ENGINEER AT PUMPING STATION-W. A. H. Jones.
Superintendent's office in rear of Engine House, Main Street. Rates payable at Town Treasurer's office, semi-annually, in advance, May 1 and November 1.
Meeting of the Commissioners to examine bills and claims against the Department, the first WEDNESDAY EVENING of each month.
Bills against the Department must be rendered on or before the first Wednesday of each month, or they will lie over until the following month.
Approved bills paid by the Town Treasurer at Town House.
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REPORT OF THE WATER COMMISSIONERS FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1887.
The receipts for the year have been-
$14,883 86
From water rates.
571 18
From labor and material sold.
$15,455 04
The payments have been for -
General expenses of maintenance and
stock on hand
$4,371 51
Extension of water pipes by the depart- ment.
369 76
280 15
Shed at yard
Expenses at the pump station 2,036 82
4,000 00
Interest on water loan
570 00
Interest on pump loan
3,826 80
Net income for the year.
- $15,455 04
Balance to credit of Water Works account Jan. 1,1887 $2,773 11 Paid Water Scrip Sinking fund 2,500 00
$273 11
3,826 80
Net earnings for 1887
Balance to credit of Water Works account $4,099 91
Received from sale on water bonds, premium and in-
terest
39,858 00
Amount carried forward . $43,957 91
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Amount brought forward
$43,957 91
Cost of new reservoir
$12,478 26
Cost of double service
35,983 42
$48,461 68
Amount overdrawn on all the accounts of the
department
4,503 77
$48,461 68
The sum of $4,000, premium on water bonds, which the Town voted last March to transfer to the Water Works account, has not been credited. With this credit, the balance overdrawn would be reduced to $503.77.
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REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR OF WATER RATES.
To-
Rates of 1886, brought forward $110 50
Labor and materials, brought forward. . .
25 35
Rates charged in 1887 14,798 38
Labor and material charged in 1887. 584 08
Water charged in 1887
337 09
$15,855 32
By amounts paid Town Treasurer -
Water rates collected
$14,883 86
Labor and material collected 571 18
Abatements 349 13
Uncollected rates
38 25
Uncollected labor and material
12 90
$15,855 32
Water is supplied to 1,452 families, 385 water closets, 122 bath tubs, 128 stables, 122 horses, 110 cows, 161 hose, 67 stores and offices, 7 boilers, 2 fish markets, 2 laundries, 1 bottling room, 1 motor for printing office, 1 motor for Hatch & Shaw, 4 churches, 5 saloons, 8 manufactories, 3 shops, 4 livery stables, 2 dentists, 6 barber shops, 3 hot-houses, 3 bakeries, I slaughter- house, 8 boarding-houses and hotels, county buildings, 10 uri- nals, 5 meat markets, 2 billiard-rooms, 2 engines, Old Colony Railroad, and 1 paint shop.
Very Respectfully,
W. T. HOLLIS,
Collector of Water Rates.
PLYMOUTH, January 2, 1888.
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GENERAL EXPENSES.
Superintendent
$700 00
Collector 461 00
Service pipe, plumbing, hardware and tools .. 363 83
Express bills
26 35
Canvas and cloth
50 57
Gate and faucet boxes and castings
133 37
Lumber
39 85
Printing
63 15
Stationery and postage
36 22
Fuel, gas and kerosene
50 25
Rubber goods
13 75
Blacksmith work
21 35
Teaming
36 77
Wagon hire of Superintendent
$83 00
Carriage hire
14 00
Telephone repairs and extensions
37 40
Telephone lease
40 00
Pump and diaphragm
60 40
Labor bills
1,367 97
Wrought-iron pipes, 4-inch
314 83
Wrought-iron pipes, 6, 12, 14, and 16-inch
75 48
Cement .
244 30
Gates
88 46
Railroad freights
42 97
Repairs on wall at Little South Pond.
76 00
New shed at yard, rear of fire engine-house. 280 15
$5,021 42
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PUMP STATION EXPENSES.
Salary of engineer and extra pumping.
$656 09
194 tons of coal 984 81
Wood. 2 50
Machine oil
43 75
Plumbing and hardware.
81 43
Alterations and repairs to boilers
69 14
Two gages and repairs
24 50
Hancock inspirator
19 50
Hartford boiler insurance and inspection. 37 50
Repairs to building 37 22
Fuel for house, and kerosene 50 38
Fire hydrant. 30 00
Interest on pump loan
570 00
$2,606 32
HIGH AND LOW SERVICE EXPENSES.
Paid-
Goodhue & Birnie, on contract $31,260 81
· Goodhue & Birnie for extra work.
$180 12
less our contra charges 167 00
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Paid for-
35 gates and one check valve. 1,058 53 E
One cast iron cross on Summer Street 19 80
One cast iron cross on Samoset Street. 7 75
Iron valve-boxes. 141 59
Paving, and town teams
49 20
Railroad freights 66 89
Frank Bartlett and Joseph Barnes for superin- tendence of lining and laying pipes 399 47
Walter H. Sears, Engineer 200 00
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Labor of Water Works department on connections,
service pipes, blow-offs, etc. $520 84
Wagon hire of Mr. Bagnell . 150 00
Plumbing, blacksmithing and carpentering 286 68
Carting .
50 80
Rights of way of Samuel W. Holmes
50 00
Searching title and expense on contract
13 75
American Bank Note Co., engraving bonds.
75 00
Well-room and head-house, stock and labor.
365 90
Labor of widening and grading the road on the line of the pipe. 1,253 29
Total
$35,983 42
NEW RESERVOIR EXPENSES.
Amount paid in the year 1887.
$7,224 06
Expenses for reservoir paid in 1886 5,254 20
Total cost of reservoir $12,478 26
Paid as follows-
Labor and teams
$7,182 33
David Clark, foreman
645 00
Cement and cartage
1,623 85
Land 300 00
Surveying for locations 9 50
Engineering
600 00
Hardware, tools and ice
226 16
Lumber and carpenter work. 127 82
Use of roller 50 00
Two-inch pipe from pump to reservoir. 109 54
Traveling, telegraph and sundry expenses 10 00
Brass and copper-pipe screens.
23 70
Carried forward $10,907 90
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Brought forward. $10,907 90
Cast iron pipe, connecting with pump 251 36 Three valves 161 04
Iron shell for cement pipe 466 20
Labor and materials on inlet and outlet pipes 691 76
$12,478 26
The cost of the reservoir and the new mains and extensions exceeded the appropriations by $8,603.68.
The cost of labor in the construction of the reservoir was much more than the estimates ; $1,500 of reservoir expenses was in the connecting pipes.
In the original estimates for the mains, the pipes from the pond to the pump station was to be fourteen inches in diameter ; the pipe laid is sixteen inches in diameter, at an added cost of $1,500. Widening and grading the road on the route of the pipe cost $1,250. A large part of this outlay was a needed im- provement to the road.
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Plymouth, Mass., Water Works.
Population by census of 1885 : 7,239.
Date of construction : 1855. By whom owned : Town.
Source of Supply : Great and Little South Ponds and Lout Pond.
Mode of Supply : Gravity for low service, and pumping for high service.
PUMPING.
1. Builders of pumping machinery : Worthington.
(b. Bituminous.
2. Coal : d. Brand, various. e. $5.07 per ton.
3. Coal for year : 496,510 pounds.
4. Total fuel : 496,510.
5. Total water, pumped : 214,809,418 gallons.
6. Average static head : 35 feet.
7. Average dynamic head : 90 feet.
8. Number of gallons pumped per pound of coal : 433.
9. Duty of pump : 32,474,061.
Cost of Pumping, figured on Pumping Station Expenses, viz. : $2,184.39.
10. Per million gallons against dynamic head into direct pipe : $10.17.
11. Per million gallons raised one foot high (dynamic) : $0.113%. Cost of Pumping, figured on Total Maintenance, viz .: $10,738.99.
12. Per million gallons raised against dynamic head into direct pipe, $49.99.
13. Per million gallons raised one foot high, (dynamic) : $0.55-5.4%.
FINANCIAL.
MAINTENANCE.
RECEIPTS.
EXPENDITURES.
FROM CONSUMERS:
A. Water rates, domestic,
$14,249 35
B. Water rates, manufacturing,
634 51
C. Receipts,
$14,883 86
D. Miscellaneous (repairs, etc.,)
331 84
E. Total, $15,215 70
F. No charge is made for water used by town.
$15,215 70
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Total,
$10,735 99
10,738 99
Profits of maintenance for year, Balance from last year
2,773 11
7,249 82
Carried to sinking fund · $2,500 00
Carried to construction account 4,749 82
7,249 82
Balance on hand, 0.
CONSTRUCTION.
S: From bonds issued,
$34,603 80
FF. Extension of mains,
$6,353 18
239 34
GG. Extension of services,
239 34
4,749 82
HH. Special (reservoir, buildings, etc.,)
7,504 21
Total,
$39,592 96
II. Total
$44,096 73
Balance overdrawn,
4,503 77
$44,096 73
X. Bonded debt, $20,000 at 6 per cent.
6,000 " 5 "
6,000 " 4 1-2 per cent.
109,000 " 4 per cent.
$141,000
Y. Sinking fund: $8,257.95.
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AA. Management and repairs, BB. Interest on bonds,
$6,168 99 4,570 00
K. Gross receipts from all sources, Gross expenditures,
$4,476 71
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CONSUMPTION.
1. Estimated total population at date : 7,500.
2. Estimated population on lines of pipe at date : 6,500.
3. Estimated population supplied at date : 6,400.
4. Total number of gallons consumed for year : 214,809,418.
7. Average daily consumption : 588,519.
8. Gallons per day to each inhabitant (1) : 78.
9. Gallons per day to each consumer (3) : 92.
10. Gallons per day to each tap (Distribution, 22) : 447.
DISTRIBUTION.
MAINS.
1. Kind of pipe used : wrought iron, cement-lined.
2. Sizes from 2-inch to 20-inch.
3. Extended 21,015 feet.
4. Discontinued 1,203.
5. Total now in use : 27§ mls.
6. Cost of repairs per mile, $13.35.
7. No. of leaks per mile : 1.82.
8. Small distribution pipes, less than four inches : to- tal length, 7§ miles.
9. Hydrants added : 8.
10. Number now in use: 75 public, and 8 private.
11. Stop gates added : 35.
12. Number now in use : 217.
13. Small stop gates-less than 4 inches : total, 90.
14. No. of blow-off gates : 21.
SERVICES.
16. Kind of pipe : lead and cement-lined.
17. From ¿ inch to 1 inch.
18. Extended 660 feet.
20. Total now in use : 5 miles.
21. Service taps added : 33.
22. Number now in use, 1,317.
23. Average length of service : 20 feet.
24. Average cost of service : $5.33.
27. Motors and elevators added, 0.
28. Number now in use : 2.
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WATER SUPPLY-PUMPING WORKS.
By the pumping record of Mr. W. A. H. Jones, the Engineer, the number of gallons of water pumped during the year was 214,809,418, which is 332,367 gallons more than was pumped in the year 1886. This small increase in the amount of water pumped was due in part to the fact that the woolen mill, in the latter part of the year used less water than before ; and further, that since the 20th of December only a small part of the water used by the Town was pumped.
Water is now pumped for the high service only.
A large reduction of pumping expenses for the year 1888, under the divided service, is already indicated.
The pumps now work at very uniform pressure, averaging about sixty-four feet forcing head, but not exceeding sixty-eight feet, and that when the reservoir is full. This is about fifteen feet less than the former average pressure, which varied from sixty to ninety-five feet. The water flows by gravity from Little South Pond to the pumps, avoiding the former suction- lift. The pumps run more steadily than before, and can be run much faster with less wear on the machinery.
The property under the care of the Engineer is kept in good condition.
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