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CONSTRUCTION WORK IN AND AROUND CIEN- 



FUEGOS ; WATER WORKS, SEWERS AND A 



NEW CITY MARKET. 



It has been decided by Governor Magoon 

 that the contract between the city of Cien- 

 fuegos and H. J. Reilly, providing for the 

 construction of water works and sewers is 

 legal and binding and must be observed by 

 the municipality. 1 his decision sustains 

 the previous action of the governor of 

 Santa Clara Province and overrules the 

 Ayuntamiento, which body has since the 

 second intervention refused to recognize 

 the contract. Work has been continued un- 

 der the contract, however, principally on 

 the sewers, and more than $1,000,000 wor.h 

 of material has been contracted for and is 

 being shipped. The municipality is now in- 

 debted to the contractor in a large amount. 

 The decision will enable the work to be 

 vigorously prosecuted. It is of the great- 

 est importance to the city that an ample' 

 supply of pure water from the Hanabanilla 

 shall be provided in the near future and 

 also that the town shall be provided with 

 sewers and the present cess-pr;o]s abolished. 



The city has issued $3,080,000 of 5 per 

 cent, bonds to provide funds for the water 

 works and sewers and market house. These 

 were sold to the Havana Bond & Trust Co. 

 at 90. The contract for the water works 

 amounts to $1,652,092 and for the sewers 

 $724,065. The sewage will be pumped to a 

 septic tank and purified before being al- 

 lowed to flow into the harbor. Pumping 

 will be done by hydriulic motors, the water 

 being furnished frrni the wTter works. The 

 Rio Hanabanilla wi'ers will be :aken from 

 a point about twenty-six miles east of Cien- 

 fuegos and conducted to a reinforced con- 

 crete distributing nservoir near Cacnao and 



from that jxiinl di.^tributed t<i the city. 

 Pressure will be about 60 pounds, and the 

 main leading to the city will be 24 mclies 

 in diameter. .Xbout 15,000 tons of cast iron 

 ])ipe. 16,000 barrels of cement and large 

 quantities nf other material will be used 

 in the work. The construction is under the 

 immediate charge of Mr. C. C, X'ermeule, 

 of 203 Broadway, New York, who also 

 designed the works. 



Another important public improvement 

 on which work will begin at an early .date 

 is the Cienfuegos, Palmira & Cruces Elec- 

 tric Power and Railway Co., a system of 

 railways running from Cienfuegos to Santa 

 Clara, with a branch from Cienfuegos to 

 .Manicaragua. i he plans of this company 

 called for ultimate extension from Caiba- 

 rien on the north coast and to Sanclu 

 Spiritus. where it will connect with the 

 Cuba Railroad. '!"he hydro electric power 

 plant to operate this system and which is 

 intended also to furnish electric light and 

 power to the cities and plantations of Santa 

 Clara Province will be situated on the falls 

 of the Hanabanilla. about 35 miles east of 

 Cienfuegos. The fall at this point is 470 

 feet, and the company controls just below 

 f-n the same stream 220 feet additional 

 fall. The surveys have also developed the in- 

 teresting fact that tile volume cf water can be 

 largely increased by closing the Sumidero 

 of the Sibacoa, north of Trinidad, thereby 

 forcing the waters of the Sibacoa over a 

 low divide into the Hanabanilla. 



Cienfuegos is already a rich and impor- 

 tant seaport situated in the midst of the 

 most fertile portion of Cuba, and these 

 important public works will do much to 

 quicken and increase its growth and pros- 

 perity. 



