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Sulphate of Lime 829 grains. 



Bi-Carbonate of Lime 14-238 " 



Bi-Carbonate of Magnesia 305 " 



Bi-Carbonate of Iron 1.006 " 



Sulphate of Soda Trace. 



Silica 951 " 



Organic Matter 1.166 " 



Total Solids . ......... 109.132 " 



Sulphuretted Hydrogen Gas Trace. 



Carbonic Acid Gas Trace. 



Temperature of Water 6'j}4°- 



This may be classed as one of the sulpho-saline waters, containing borax and 

 lithium as rare ingredients. Comparing this water with that of other springs and 

 wells, we find it to be similar to the celebrated " Blue Lick " Spirng of Kentucky, 

 except that the Ft. Scott water is more dilute and the former does not contain 

 borax. From a consideration of the strata through which the well passes and 

 the composition of this water, it seems probable that it is a mixture of waters 

 from different depths. 



University of Kansas, Lawrence, December, 1884. 



ENGINEERING. 



THE STREET PAVEMENTS IN KANSAS CITY.i 



W. B. KNIGHT, C. E. 



There is nothing more characteristic of a city, and nothing which in such a 

 conspicuous manner marks the distinction between a city in fact and a city in 

 name, than the condition of its public thoroughfares. It is a sign more exten- 

 sive and obtrusive than any other kind of public improvements. The difference 

 between a clean, smooth, easy riding carriage-way and the rattle and jolt over a 

 rough roadway with varying conditions of mud and dust, must inevitably form 

 an important factor in any estimate or judgment of a city. It is, perhaps, a dif- 

 ference which may rank even with climatic influences in effecting the prosperity, 

 temperament and other characteristics of a population. 



Well paved streets in a city ^re at once the exponent of its commercial vital- 

 ity and a mark of the wise exercise of municipal power for the conservation of a 

 most important element of that vitality; an element as important to the health. 



1 Read before the Civil Engineers' Club of Kansas City, November 29, 1884. 



