The original waterworks system of Dairen, or as it was then called, Dany, was Instltuled by the Rus. sions by sinking wells beside the Malinho and other Yocal rivulets, which are frequently dry. The population at that time was sparse and the supply was 1,100 tons dally. Since then more than Y. 14,000,000 have been spent in constructing huge ting {ng an extraordinary' dry" climate pnturel kes inthe vicinity and brooks or vives sung const There are six sources for Dalren's Woter supply all inthe same, aren assed by the highway j Whleb connects this township. with, Port Arthur. These, "together with what is trapped during" the rainy season, give a dally quantity of 36,- 00 tons, But even when this new sou ree is tapped there can be no well safe but very cold, would to be follow up the river in. mid-winter, when the sides are frozen over. many geologic ages ago, part of Dairen Bay. He says that his new. discovery will be found bee tween 60 and 70 feet underground, and that eighteen-inch pipes will be
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