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many such corporations will be enabled to furnish their citizens 

 with good, cool and pure water, in sufficient quantities, and at 

 far less expense than they can by any other plan or system 

 now known. Of course, whether it can be so utilized as to furnish 

 very large cities with sufficient supply is a problem hereafter to be 

 demonstrated ; but in our own state, (and without doubt in every 

 other state), there are hundreds of smaller cities and thickly pop- 

 ulated villages and hamlets, whose inhabitants are now suffering 

 great inconvenience, and incurring risks of sickness and death 

 from malarial and epidemic diseases, from insufficient supplies of 

 healthful and pure waters whose surroundings are such that, by 

 the reasonable application of your simple system for collection 

 and storage of water they could each, at much less cost than in 

 any other way, be furnished with a permanent and sufficient quan- 

 tity of the best of water for all the purposes for which it may be 

 required by them. Then too, the hills or mountains surrounding 

 or adjoining these places, often now utterly unproductive, and 

 sometimes even unsightly in appearance, can by this same plan 

 be transformed into productive and ornate terraced gardens, far 

 excelling in products and profit the ordinary agricultural lands of 

 the neighborhood and rivaling in beauty the most famous of the 

 ornamental gardens of the old world, presenting at all times " a 

 thing of beauty " to the eye, season by season affording more prof- 

 itable remuneration to their owners from the crops and fruits and 

 vegetables which shall spring from and adorn their slopes ; and at 

 the same time and always affording to the inhabitants of the popu- 

 lous places beneath their shades a bountiful supply of Heaven's 

 best and only beverage for man. 



I am confident that your system will grow in popularity with its 

 use ; and eventually a grateful people, thankful for the blessings 

 your invention has brought to their hands, will rank 3-011 as a ben- 



