PUMPING ENGINE NOTES At Waltham, Mass., the builders of the pumping machinery are Barr, Worthing and the Platt Iron Works. The coal used is bituminous and hard screenings; the average price per gross ton, delivered, being $4.45, and the percentage of ash, 12 per cent. During the past year 1,895.180 lb. of coal and 3 lb. of wood were consumed. The total pumpage for the year at both stations was 829.190,505 gal., without allowance for slip; average static head against which pump works, 190 fe.; average dynamic head against which pump works, 208 ft.; number of gallons pumped by all the pumps per pound of equivalent coal. 450; duty, 83,692,820—all the pumps; cost of pumping, figured on pumping station expenses—namely, $12,973.73; per 1,000,000 gal. pumped. $15.64; per 1,000,000 gal. raised 1 ft. (dynamic). $0,075. A Scranton. Pa., dispatch states that the work on the big pumping plant, recently constructed at…
