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unknown member writes:

I'm not too sure about the one with the pump. These didn't come along until the 1870s, with people fetching water from a stream or well before then. The pump would need to be connected to a well, and that can be a lot of work to dig out in the semi-arid American West. You might have a few of them around in town, but not all that common. Out in the countryside, poor farmers would have gotten pumps for their troughs later than wealthy landowners. Usually, a city official, like the marshal, would be responsible for keeping the water troughs filled. I suspect he would have his deputy take care of this or maybe hire a local kid to fill the troughs before or after school.

By way of a fun mini-diorama, folks bathed in horse troughs. Probably not the ones in town.

I probably wouldn't have bothered to comment, basically agreeing with 79thPA, but I just finished filling out my ballot for a possible ordinance to annex land to Colorado Springs, and availability of water is a big deal for any expansion of the city, even now. We have a couple nice looking streams in town that would otherwise be intermittent streams if they weren't kept flowing all year with water piped in from the western side of the Continental Divide, about 150-200 miles away.

Grelber


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The Miniature Building Authority writes:

Old West Water Troughs

Water troughs

Product ID MBAL-402 – $5.95 USD

28mm scale – two 3D-resin-printed items. Does not come painted. Produced under commercial license.

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