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Title: Valentine's manual of old New York
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Valentine's Manual Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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OF OLD NEW YORK man again considered securing water from the samesource, without result. The next proposition was to con-struct an open canal from the Housatonic River, and an-other scheme suggested a canal from the Oblong Riverat Sharon, Conn., to New York, a distance of fifty miles.In 1825 the New York Water Works Company was in-corporated to carry out the plan of Mr. Canvass Whitewho was selected in 1822, as engineer to make investiga-tions concerning the Bronx River supply on which hehad reported favorably. This company dissolved in 1827as its charter conflicted with those of the Sharon CanalCompany and of the Manhattan Company. In 1827 theNew York Wells Company was incorporated to borewells, but soon abandoned the task realizing that sufficientwater could not be obtained from that source. Severalwells were bored by Levi Disbrow who had invented andpatented improved tools for the work, but it was estimatedthat two hundred wells would be necessary to obtain asufficient supply of wa

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