MANCHESTER 



feature is associated. The quantity of refuse collected 

 and dealt with at the two stations in Manchester 

 amounted, in the year ending March 31, 1903, to about 

 270.000 tons, including about 80,000 tons of nightsoil 

 and 70,000 tons of street refuse. 



For dealing with this refuse there are 35 destructor 

 furnaces, 15 boilers, 16 mortar mills, 18 drying pant 



machines, and a correspondingly large number of other 

 pieces of apparatus. 



In addition, the city has works for repairing and 

 making rolling stock, stores, disinfecting ovens, ambu- 

 lance house, sawmill, brushmaking works, and stables, 

 beside numerous subsidiary depots. The total value of 

 the land and buildings belonging to the Cleansing Com- 

 mittee according to appraisals made by the City Sur- 

 veyor on March 31, 1906, was $2,733,093, and of rolling 

 stock, apparatus, etc., $305,271. The cost of the depart- 

 ment for the year was $677,066 without counting interest 

 on the investments in property or depreciation of plant. 

 Of this total, $588,000 were spent for wages and salaries. 



For the purpose of providing an outlet for the large 

 amount of refuse dealt with, the city has 



Municipal 



purchased two country estates, one at Car- country 

 rington, and the other at Chat Moss. 



The Carrington estate is about ten miles from Man- 

 chester, has been in the possession of the city about 

 twenty-one years and is valued at about $540,000. It 

 consisted, when purchased, of 1100 acres, largely un- 

 drained bog land. At the time of purchase, it was so 

 marshy that it was dangerous in places for a person to 

 walk across it. Its value has been trebled under the 

 city's management. 



The method of reclamation adapted at Carrington for 



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