100 HALIFAX WATER WORKS. — .JOHNSTON. 



be allowed tlw. ownei-s, and the niotliod l)v which said (iwantitv 

 should be measurod. 



The water was oi'iiiiiiallv hiouiilit from the Chain Lakes to 

 the city by a 12-iiu'h main to St. Andrew's Cross, laid in 1848, 

 and was assumed by Mr. -larvis to bo capable of delivering at 

 this point 800,000 oalloiis (huly. It was of cast iron, and was 

 ordered in Scothuid thi'onuli Messrs. Kidston »t Son, of Glas- 

 liow. and cost £7 ."is. per ton dtdivered, the freii>ht being 15/ per 

 ton. 2,550 feet of tliese pipes were to be f inch thick, to be 

 tested to withstand a pressure of IGO pounds to the square 

 inch, and 1.3,050 feet to be ^ inch thick tested to 11:5 pounds. 

 All ])i])es were to be !) feet long. 550 of these pipes were 

 ordered with spigots cast on them to iit a f-inch iron service 

 pipe. So that the wat^jr wouhl not have to be turned off in mak- 

 ing connections. The pii>es were uncoated a;nd w^ere laid with 

 lead joints. 



In January, 185(5, the water company ordered from 

 Kidston & Sons 284 lengths of 15-inch pipe, 9 feet long, | inch 

 thick, to be laid in the valley of the Xortb West Arm, and 1,341 

 leiiiith- ;' inch thick; the ]ii])('s to be tested to 1(!5 and 185 

 pounds res])e(*tiv(dy. These ])ipes were laid during that year 

 alongside the 12-inch. The estimated delivery of this pipe was 

 over 1,000,000 gallons per day at St. Andrew's Cross. Messrs. 

 Kidston wrote to the <lin'ct.ors recommending the use of a coat- 

 ing (Smith's ])at<'nt \'arnish) which was then just coming into 

 use, and th<; directors wrote sayi,ng that if this coating had the 

 approval of authorities in Great IJritain to ])ut it on the pi])es; 

 but subsequently, fearing it would reduce the ca])acitT of the 

 pipes, passed the f(dlowi'ag res(dution, a copy of which they 

 sent their agents : — 



Re.solved, — Tliat the directors having ordered a 15-inch 

 pipe, which was larger than was contem]>late(l for the \ei-y ])ur- 

 pose of preventing the pipes filling up, do not consider that the 



