The La Cygne Weekly Journal Linn County Saturday January 20, 1883 The city will soon have money enough in its treaury to buy fire extinguishing apparatus, and it could not be expended to better advantage then in purchasing a good hand water engine. Such a one as is needed here will throw up streams 140 feet, can be worked by twenty men, and will cost only $775 in St. Louis. Had it been here the morning of the sixth of last month the burned district would have been much smaller than now. The Journal understands that the city government favors the purchase of an engine and hopes that a trade for one may be consummated at an early date.