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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

WATER WORKS.

   The Santa Rosa Water Works were incorporated in January, 1873, with $100,000
capital. On the 1st of May active operations were commenced. The water is taken
from the Santa Rosa creek, about five miles from Santa Rosa. It is led in
seven-inch pipe one and a-quarter miles to a reservoir. In the fall of the year
of organization the water was brought to the city and distributed through the town.

   In 1875 a majority of the stock of the company was purchased by Mark L.
McDonald, of San Francisco.

   In the latter part of 1876, Jackson R. Myers purchased an interest in the
company, and became the manager. It was determined to erect a new reservoir
about half a mile below the old one. The work was completed in the spring of
1877, and it is one of the best constructed and arranged reservoirs in the
State. It is about eighteen hundred feet long, and is six hundred feet wide, and
when full will have a depth of twenty-four feet, affording an abundant supply of
pure mountain water for the people of the city, and also a safeguard against
conflagration. To the capital and enterprise of Mark McDonald, and good judgment
of Mr. Myers, the people are indebted for that greatest of all blessings—a cheap
and bountiful supply of water. Mr. McDonald, by his public spirit, has
inseperably [sic] connected his name with the city of Santa Rosa.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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