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A PERMANENT PARAGRAPHIC ADVERTISEMENT.
[RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS.]
A miner’s inch of water is about twenty thousand gallons. The usual price for an inch of water in the mines is ten cents. The Spring Valley Company sells water in large quantities at seventy-five cents per thousand gallons, or at fifteen dollars seventy-five cents per inch—which is one hundred and fifty-seven times the price which miners pay. Furnished in small quantities to housekeepers, the Company charges from thirty to fifty dollars an inch—five hundred times the miners’ rates.
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