Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1911 — City Will Pipe Water Long Distance [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

City Will Pipe Water Long Distance

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—With the Kansas and Missouri rivers'combining to furnish water for Kansas City and aometlmeß supplying more of it than can be taken care of, it is somewhat surprising that local capitalists should be negotiating for the purchase of water 150 miles away for the city supply. — ; Efforts have recently been made -by them to purchase the Bennett Spring to Dallas county, Mo., with a view to piping the water here to supply residences with drinking water. Reports made to the intending purchasers by an expert sent to the spring show a daily output of 104,000,000 gallons. Since the spring was discovered, which dates back to Indian times before the advent of white settlers, the spring has been pouring forth the same volume of crystal pure water of the same temperature whethor it was July or January. The term spring is misleading for

the water supply iq. really an under ground river which comes to the sur face at this point, forms a surface river of its own for a mile and a quarter to jump farther down from s bed 23 feet above into the Little Nlan gua river. The ‘spring flow reachei the river with such force that 11 shoots half way over the stream be fore itß waters fall to mingle with those of the Little Niangua and fiov away to the northward. * The only practical use made of th< water from this spring is at Brice near where it jumps into the river There onc-seventh of the supply ii turned, into a mill race to furnish pow er for a mill. The water from the spring, in addi tion to being pure, is said to possess medicinal qualities for which it has some local reputation. The plan of utilizing the big supply in Kansas City includes building s pipe line from the spring to the city This line would cross nearly all or Dallas county, for the spring is on iti eastern border, and all of Jackson county, for the city is on its western border. The counties between are Johnson. Henry, St. Clair and Hick ory. The pipe line would probably extend over 150 miles.