File:Durfee High School, Fall River, Massachusetts (1911) (14781046571).jpg

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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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upposed to besupplied chiefly from springs, although receiving the outflow fromseveral minor sheets of water. The comparatively small drainagearea, however, considered in connection with the great volume ofwater flowing to the bay, may be sufficient to justify the opinion ofsome that subterranean connection exists with another chainof lakes lying several miles northeasterly from this city. However this may be, the fact remains that Fall River possessesthe finest lakes of pure, fresh water of any city in the Union; whosebanks neer overflow in times of deluge, nor seemingly diminish intimes of drought—the North Watuppa, upon whose west banksthe city water works are built; and the South Watuppa, the fish-ing ground for followers of Isaac Walton, and whose west banksare sites for future factories. The flow of the Quequechan from these lakes to the bay is es-timated to be 12 1.5 cubic feet per second, or 9,000,000,000 gal-lons a year or more, of which fully 20,000,000 gallons daily go 36
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tumbling to Neptune;—pure, sparkling water, innocent of deposit,incapable of corrosion, unequalled for textiles, and unexcelled forchemical or medical purposes. The advantages of the Quequechan as a mill stream were in-creased by the building of dams at its outlet from the lakes andalong its banks. Over its waters great manufacturing plants havebeen erected, until this stream for much of its course is absolutelylost to view. This river for almost its entire length flows over abed of granite, its course is confined between walls of granite; andthe water-wheels of the older mills set in the bed of the streamwithout fear of injury or risk of loss. There is a uniform and con-stant supplv of water coming down from the lakes, yet an over-flow or a freshet has never been known. These old time water-wheels have long since given place to moremodern machinery,even in many of the earliest constructed mills;yet they are retained in the bed of the Quequechan, for use in caseof need. Our mills ha

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