The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

Dorchester, 27th Feb., 1860.

Another engineering blunder is Is gin fling
to be felt. It is this, the chambers or heath ugs are
eight to ten feet sleeper in the well than they sh ould
be, consequently the pumps are fixed so far (ruin the
bottom that it is quite impossible to pump out half
the water; the result of this is that after • .•orl :Mg
from two to three hours the machinery beeoin es Ilse-
less, and the coals are burning to waste; ui. I tiiere
is lei alternative but to wait till the water rises.
is really a laughable affair. l'here is plenty of water
in the well and powerful engines that a ould ft Ws it
froni a much greater depth, yet each is the did ici
that I have described. Surely, Mr. Editor. 1 n red
not make a long apology fur trespassing on y•sur
valuable space, for I sin sure you will see the fi illy
of digging a well and then fixing valuable mach in cry
so far from the bottom as to render it worse than
USETPAY.

Where were the brains of the engineer? Feally
some sensible school boy would manage thew ritfikire
better, and obviate such silly blundenugs.
Now it is proposed to lower the pumps five feet,
to do which another set of pumps will have to be
fixed in order to keep down the water while tl ds is
being done. Here will be a pretty expense. What
will the ratepayers say to all this? What will b the
erect when the pumps are lowered? Why, worse
than ever, for they will be five feet under water, and
quite out of reach when any part gets out of oi•der.
What a nice little sum for repairs will have to be icud
Now, Sir, I will just give the Boardone little plan I hat
will save the greater part of the proposed outlay : --it
is this, insert a lead shaft five feet in depth and five
in diameter, the bottom of which must be 4 kid. 6
inches below the water level; this being don.?, the
pumps can be fixed within the shaft, which wid limey
out the water so that they may be examined and re-
paired at any time. No subsidiary pumps will be
required fur this alteration, and a large. 111111 will be
saved, both in the first outlay and in repairs forever.
Wishing the ratepayers better success,
I have the honour to remain,
Sir,
Yours respectfully,
SORRY-TO-SEE-IT.

P.S.—There is still a considerahle leakage going
on in the tank-10,003 gallons every twenty-four
hours; in the pipm, the leakage is beyond calcula-
tion.

To the Editor of the Dorset Cram(' &prase aid
Agricultural Gazettc.

DEAR SIR,
I wish you would bring yonratien•
tion to bear upon the mass of ignorant pretension
and offensive egotism which is constantly found in
the "leading" columns of your contemporary, the
Dorset C'oidta y Chroaicle. Just for once take the
trouble (a very painful task I know to any in-
telligent man) to wade through the article in last
Thursday's paper, beaded "our deputation to Down.
tog-street.," Such a conglomeration of absurdity and
utter confusion of mind, I will venture to say, it is
impossible to find in any one of the 724 papers, large
and small, published within the confines of Great
Britain. Ido not exaggerate when I affirm that as an
exhibition of incoherency the production cannot be
equalled by any man out of Bedlam; while, for per-
sonal vanity, and affectation of greatness, it is ludi-
crous in the extreme. All you can make out of the
article is, that this remarkable " V e went to Lon-
don. and there met some three or four others, who,
together, ''sat three days in deep divan and double-
" distilled deliberation"—the object of the " double-
distilled" being to "solve the problem of the inten•
time" of the Chancellor of the Exchequer toward.