17% % on 1897 Revenue of $109,815.96
Ditto 1898
= $19,217.79
14
·$113,152, 84 = $19.801.74
1899
- $126,155.78=$22,077.26
Water revenue was evidently an expanding
item, In 1895 the total was $80, 179.41.
(These figs. clearly refer to gross revenue).
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