WATER SUPPLY —The Davenport (Ia.) Water Company will extend its supply pipe to the channel of the river. It will terminate in an elbow which will turn it down stream a few feet, so that all direct drift of objectionable matter into the inlet will be avoided. The expenses of the improvement will be about $10,000. —The Lawrence (Kan.) water-works are to be sold by the sheriff. —Santa Barbara, Cal., has voted against issuing $260,000 in bonds, as proposed, for a water supply system. Consequently, as a local paper remarks, “ Santa Barbara will have to haul water by rail from Ventura next summer.” —The question of having water-works is being agitated at Colden, N. Y. A prize fair is proposed to help secure the funds necessary. —At Bridgeton, N. J., a syndicate has proposed to purchase the water-works for $500,000, and promises to spend a like sum on improvements…
