COLUM BIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES in operation their corporate privileee, n am ely: that o f "introducing w ater into the borough by means o f pipes, trunks o r acquetlucts." A water main constructed o f good-sized logs, bored with a four-inch diam eter opening, fitted and coupled with iron bands, w as laid from the town out M arket street along the road to a stream near the little village o f Foundryville, the w ater from this stream entering B ria r creek, impounded and tapped ami thus con veyed into the town. F o r several y e ars this system o f supply w as kept in oiwration, but as the population increase<l it eventually proved inadequate, fo r according to the testi mony o f o ld er citizens who recall this pipe line the l o ^ would liccomc clogged or ob structed. T h e pipe itself became rotten, the different kin d s o f logs used at times m aking r^ n irs difficult and unsatisfactor)*. T h is con dition probably contributed to the need for securing w a te r elsewhere, fo r it is also a m at ter o f h isto ry that children o f that d ay were frequently sent to the springs in the river below the old dug road and carried the w ater therefrom to supply the fam ily needs. T he quality and quantity o f w ater in these springs being of the best, the use evidently w as very early suggested to the citizens o f that time, and they e arly became the property of the Berwick W a ter Com pany. T h e w ater w as pumped into the mains by means o f w ater power at the w aste-w eir at the locks at Bcr»-kk. " T h e W o rk s" were thus established prior to the ye ar If^ 8 . In 18 52 the I^egislature extended to the Berwick W a ter Compan)^ the right previously granted the H yd rau lic Com pany of the bor ough o f B e rw ick to use the w aterpow er at this waste-weir. T h is old metho<l o f pumping water by means o f an old-type turbine or water-wheel w as continued with m ore o r less change and improvement until the late sev enties : fo r "w a te r wheel and pumping ma chinery" appears in (he balance sheets o f that day as one of the valued assets of the company. .Some lim e p rior to the C ivil w ar, on land still owned by the com pany on Second and Chestnut streets, a reservoir w as constructed for storage. In 18 8 3 a seven an<l a h alf foot standpipe w as added to this reservoir, and its use w as continued until about 1890, when the reservoir at Glcn Brook w as completed. Following the era in which log pipe w as used the company constructed other conduits or pipe lines 01 cement, and in late y e ars these old 1(« and cement pipes have b e ^ at times e x cavated by the company's workmen. It is in teresting to know the manner o f construc
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tion o f this old cement p ip e : A 2-inch w rou ght pi|)C w as covered with a layer o f cement of the thickness o f two or m ore inches, and over this ccm eiu covering a layer o f sheet iron w as placed and secured by bands o f iron. When this cement had hardened sufficiently the 2-inch pipe w as withdraw n and the ce ment construction w as in condition fo r lay ing. C ast iron pipe in varyin g sizes, 2, 3, 4 and 6-inch, succeeded this old log and cement pipe. In 1883, when the late (ieorge Dcpew be came superintendent of the com pany, an in ventory subm ittol by him to the board o f man agers established the fact that the company had fo u r and three quarters miles o f pipe lines, all sizes. T h e car and m anufacturing business located in the Ixirough developed with great strides a fte r the C ivil w ar and with this grow th in business the dem ands upon the w ater com pany’s capacity 10 supply w ater became acute, and in turn the company w as put to the neces sity o f meeting the in c r e a s e dem ands fo r water. Som e time in 1884 and 1885 a standpi[)c w as erected at M arket and T h ird streets, prim arily to accommodate the Jackso n & Woorlin Com pany. In 1899 and 1900 a reser voir w as constructed on property located in B riarcreek and Salem townships, at the ju nc tion of the W olfinger and Cope creeks, which gave capacity fo r the storage o f 15.000,000 gallons o f w ater. T h is is now known a s the (jlcn Brook reservoir. TTic reservoirs at Glcn Brook w e re known as N o. i and No. 2. 'Iliis in turn w as follow ed by the construction o f another reservoir in Salem township, on the V'arner creek, in 1895, known a s t ic Salem reservoir. N o. 3, having a capacity o f some 3.000.000 gallons. T h e pumping equipment had alw ays been kept in proper condition lo operate in con junction with the storage .supply at Glcn Brook and Salem reservoirs, and fo r a period o f approxim ately fifteen y e ars h.” met the de id mands o f a grow in g population. In 1899, the large m anufacturing interests of the town having l>cen incoqioraterl in the .American C a r and Fou nd ry Com pany and a lioom in general business follow ing, B erw ick experienced a great increase in population. T h e new steel car plant, new foundries, m a chine shops and mil s provided w ork fo r from five thousand to six thousand men. with a de pendent fwpulation o f tw enty thousand to twenty-five thousand people in the boroughs o f Berw ick, W est B erw ick and N cscopcck. In 1908 and 1909 a very large addition to the storage capacity at Glcn Brook w as construct
