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dollars, and may be used in streams, wells, or reser- 

 voirs. 



The Bucket Elevator. — This arrangement is 

 calculated to raise water from a stream by the force of 

 the current, but the writer does not accord to it all the 

 great things claimed by the inventor, Ira J. Paddock, 

 of Hemingford, Nebraska. The device is crudely 

 sketched in Fig. 95. According to this plan, two up- 

 right posts are to be driven a few rods apart on the 

 farther bank of the 

 stream, and two or 

 more on the nearer 

 side, at least one 

 being far enough up 

 the slope to be be- 

 yond the reservoir. 

 To the tops of the 

 posts are fastened, 

 by short ropes, pul- 

 ley-blocks, through 

 which is rove a taut 



endless rope belt. This should be two feet above 

 the ground, and should run quite a distance length- 

 wise over the stream, the latter adjustment being 

 effedled by giving enough length to the fastenings 

 of the pulleys to the two posts on the farther bank. 



The pulleys are so designed that drag-cords knotted 

 to and hanging from the moving belt-rope will pass 

 them without any trouble. Then to the rope are fas- 

 tened a lot of boxes, or buckets, which perform double 

 duty in carrying water and generating power. They 

 would be full going uphill, their weight being thensus- 



FIG. 95 — BUCKET ELEVATOR. 



