New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-24
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Trys,se IKos.-Tn has DO affinity fog esst iron,
although when wrought iron IL rendered. chemically
cean the In, adberes 10 80 teDociousy that tbs two
metals can ,Nerraro be separated in no other way
than bv melting the tin off, The afiaity Of tin for
opb, i,r il so remarkable 10 render the process
Of timing sheet iron comparatively easy one. Yet,
in the face Of this facility this country is wholly de-
pendent on England for it, supply Of timed iron fo-
,ofpc and domestic use. But in til ming iron
there "a che meal an,ag between the two metals
the Tin of-tinaely refusing to adhere 10 the icon
cept in q very imperfect manner A French artist,
| however has recently succeeded III overcoming this
antagoni.m by rendering the iTon malleabe, after the
manner Of the ordinary maIleabie iron of American
| fouud,,es Vessehs thus decarbohize1 are secured
clean with acid and other appliances used TO free the
| surface from all oxyd after which they plunged
into n tin bath the surface Of which IS covered with
taow by hs process Of preparing the iron, the tin
sdheres tenacously TO the thin plates Of wrought
iron. TbeIc is no good reason now why ali the pots
and kettles used in American kitchens should not be
| handsomely TINED and kept bright. Practice in the
art, moreover, may lead some operator further until
be accompshes the timing Of sheet ron and thus
ders our country independent Of the English article
| extensively consumed among There is vast
occupied field open in this business.
ARTEsrAN WELLs.-From paragraph copied into
TIE TRIBUNE the last week from The Louisville Jour
aal it appears that ateesn well has been sunk in
Louisville KY, 10 the depth Of 900 feet, and this is
regarded the deepest well not only in this country,
but in The world OF the existence OF this well have
before seen no notice, and inclined TO be
heve that the statement should have referred TO the
well lately completed AZ st. Louis No., which s the
deepest in the world Of which have authentic
count If there is one Of greater depth, it that
Munden in Hanover OF Of the Chinese wells. The
St. Louis well, being suik wholly at the expense Of
business firm, affords remarkable instance OF the
courage and perseverance with which enterprises in
volving so much hazard conducted in this country
that elsewhere commonly rely upon government pat
ronage alone. The famous well Of Grenele, near
Paris, was commenced by the French Government in
1882 and in 1884, after several Interruptions salts
factory supply OF water reached at the depth OF
SOC feet. Al 800 feet it would have been given up
a. hopeless enterprise but for the appeals made by
Arago TO continue IT, The scientific men Of Paris re-
garc ed il with great n:erest, and it's completion was
considered highly creditbe to the nation. The strata
assed through were not difficult 10 penetrate, bein
the mari beds clays sands and mestones Of the Paris
BASIN The 81. Louis well ives undertaken in 1919 by
the Messrs Belcher, sugar refners to supply their
refinery with water but with suspicion of what il
would finally become. The work continued with
several interruptions until its completion in March,
1854 when the depth reached Of l99 feet, and
more than $4,000 had been expended. The tine
actually occupied in the work 80 months. The
strata penetrated were beds of shae sate sandstones
some Of then Of hard texture, nestones and marh.
The water, which is discharged at the rate OF 10
gullons minute proves to be unit for other than
medicinal purposes s taste being salty, and its odor
that Of aulphurated hydrogen. Its temperature is734
L. The next deepest well IL that OF klssingen IN
Bavaria. which was sunk for the saline chslybeate
waters that are foundi the neghborhoOd. Its S1Ss
feet in depth and the water when struck at the bot
tom spouted forth Like fountain rising more than so
feet above the Srface At Charleston, S. Co. arte
rian well has been sunk by the city government
at great expense, for the purpose Of obtaining
supply of water for steamboats,, and for other
uses. II has been carried down $50 feet,
and Is 80 far successful that another well
is now in progress close by the first, which it in
tended shall be sunk to the depth, with diane
tor of six inches Great difficulties encountered
IL tie first well by reason Of the inflow of quicksand
which az different ley els upin the tube, 30 neimes
filing up 100 feet in O single night. They were finally
kent back b. wrought iron tubes, and their position
being now known they will be more easily guarded
AGAINST in the new we'll The water isnOw discharged at
the rate of 200 gallons hour but it contains some
salts of soda which while they do not impair its quali.
ties for washing and mechanical uses, make it dis
aoreebe 10 the taste The sale of the water to steam
boats it is found will pay large profit upon the ex-
penses, heavy they have been, OF these enterprises
| There are several wells of this kind in New-York
City but the rock formation is not of q nature to ex-
meet very favorable results from them Tue deepest
AZ the United States Hotel in Pearl street, 62G eet
| and the next that at the corner OF Broadway and
Blocker street. which is 44S feet deep. The proper
localities for artesan wells are in the region oil the
| sedmentary strata-where the sandstOnes, rlates,
lmestones &c. lie in sheets covering broad areas, ana
sopng al least in direction toward the spot where
the well is required. The sources OF supply ere IN the
| higher lands, il may be many miles distant. The
waters that find their way among the strata Percoa'e
| through them and down their slopes To greater and
greater depths. They in the condition OF "a'er
conveyed in sub;enancn pipes. Let one OF these De
tapped by an opening from the surface and the curen'
flows up the channel with fore proposlonate 10
| the hch. of the oumn behind A limestone REGION al
the surface with other strata beneath, presents aVor-
abls conditions for artesiau wells The limestone
ready lets the surface water through IT, and such tracts
are consequently subject to drouths. lhe strata De-
low hold the water, and from these it may De forced
inward through an unobstructed channel, ike that
presented by straight open tube These wells are
found to be- most valuable means of supplying water
to the dry limestone praes Of Alabama In the west
ern country they will be found equally valuable IN nu-
| merous localities They already successfully m
toduced in the Desert of Sahara and upon the dry
plains called the Iano Estacado, which intervene be-
tween New. Mexico aud the Mesilla Valley and when
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