The distance of these two lines will be about 12,000 feet, or 2 miles and the aggregate expense of tubes, laying down, and ;

$500 for plugs or hydrants, will amount to $24,500. The expense of a wooden reservoir containing 2000 hogsheads, (equal to twenty cisterns,) it is estimated would not exceed $1500, making in all $26,000. -It is believed that the power of a single horse will be sufficient to pump the water into the reservoir, and the annual expense of a horse and a man ought not to exceed $700.

The Committee did not omit to urge as an additional motive for laying down iron pipes, that whenever the long desired object of supplying the city with water for domestic

purposes, should be carried into effect, these same pipes would serve. A reluctant assent was wrung from the Common Council to these recommendations, and a Committee was empowered to provide the necessary site for the reservoir, and to contract for the iron pipes.

From this feeble and economical beginning, sprang our noble Croton Aqueduct ;

for theimmense and immediate advantages in cases of fire derived from this reservoir, impressed more vividly upon the public mind the far greater advantages that would result from having a river at command.

Early in 1830, we find a motion made in the Common Council, to apply to the Legislature for all needful power to supply^he city with water, and to create two millions of stock to defray the cost thereof; this did not prevail but attention was earnestly aroused to the subject, and all sorts of schemes were suggested.