History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. 235 revenue from water rates exceeds current expenses byat least two thousand dollars. There are now in useabout fifteen miles of pipes, varying from one and ahalf to six inches in diameter. The spring dischargeseach minute fourteen thousand six liundrcd gallonsof water, and since its utilization in 1807 has proba-bly scarcely varied from that quantity. Between theextremes of heat and cold, the temperature of thewater varies but two degrees, or from fifty-two tofifty degrees. The decline in power of the springfrom summe
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. 235 revenue from water rates exceeds current expenses byat least two thousand dollars. There are now in useabout fifteen miles of pipes, varying from one and ahalf to six inches in diameter. The spring dischargeseach minute fourteen thousand six liundrcd gallonsof water, and since its utilization in 1807 has proba-bly scarcely varied from that quantity. Between theextremes of heat and cold, the temperature of thewater varies but two degrees, or from fifty-two tofifty degrees. The decline in power of the springfrom summer to winter is equal to one revolution ofthe turbine-wheel per minute. The daily consump-tion of water in the borough during the summer isthree hundred thousand gallons; or about one hun-dred gallons to each inhabitant. The water is forcedto the reservoirs, to an altitude of one hundred andninety-six feet, through a six-inch raised pipe nine-teen hundred feet in length. Early Mercliants and Business Men.—AViDiamPetrikin was the first merchant in Be
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