Wilmington journal., 1876-02-04

While it cannot be denied that
Wilmington IS tolerably we'll supplied
with water for the ordinary household
purposes, and while the supply Of
water i'll ali the more elevated portions
of the city is of fair quality, yet in all
in those portions which are OF less
elevation, the water that is used is
anything else than pure. And this
impurity will increase in degree, as
the city continues to grow or increase
in population. The water which we
obtain by our present system, comes
from too near the surface of the earth,
and while it is compelled to pert olate
through the sand in order to find it's
way into the wells that are dug for its
reception, it must necessarily flow, in
which we do not care to mention, or
even to think about.
To remedy this, it Is necessary to
sink our wells deeper into the bowels
Of the earth, and get to supply of
water that does not come from near
tie surface. This whole country Is
underlaid with a stratum of rock,
which the geologists tell US at no very
great depth. A well that is sunk
down, ana through this stratum, would
doubtless overflow its mouth, and
would iii all probability force the water
to an elevation Of O hundred feet or
more.
We have been led to these remarks
by reaiing a circular of Messrs. J. L.
Bosom & Evans of this city, relative
to artasian wells, from which we make
the tOhowing extracts 4:
These wells, delivering water above
tn" surface lin some cases at over one
hundred feet elevatiOn,) have been
used In China hundreds of years, some
OF them being 3,0OG feet deep.
One at Artois, France. has been
flowing over 100 years, and another at
Lilers, France, IS claimed to have
flowed continuously since the year
1925.
The well in Grenelle, Paris, bored
III the year 1888, spontaneously deilv-
erN half million gallons daily at this
time, and 1t is said that one with a
dltmeter OF four feet is now being
suHk IL the same vicinity.
In the year 1856 well was bored in
the Desert Of Sahara, yielding water
above the surface. and within u few
years after, seventy-fve others we're
sunk, yielding daily twelve million
gallons
London had IN 1888, artesian wells
IN number sufficient to furnish six
million gallons daily, which yield was
DOUBLED by 1851; Others since pat
down, (sOme of them recently, } have
added to this supply very largely.
Illinois has hundreds IF Cverfowing
wells, and one of the many i'll Alabama
Is said to be the second largest in tie
world.
One at Louisville, Ky, 2,O66 feet
uetp, discharges water ut an elevation
VI 100 feet of the sssurface and when
tHe tl"vatiou is reduce | to so feet
Yields the amount of 330, 900 GALLONS
oaly; and is only three inches ID di
ameter.
hundreds of flowing wells have been
SUNK sunk within q few years, from / 0Ou to
9'ooO feet deep, AID gen, rally four
Iuc''es diameter. Nj sctiue:y ~ e9fu'
ior siLhtng Il Well costs about SIX
rourand dollars, ard tie proportion
Vi wells hat ooerJfO10 is est, mated as
ohe n six A deep we'll Invariably
oupPhes wafer nearer the surface than
SHALLOW one, and also in grenter
quahtlty, and cities can obtain an am
PIE supply on high ground, even If 1t
uses not overflow.
The MOore-Swespson Tragedy
Inc intense feeling. throughout tue
''a'e, which gathers AROUND all the
P"iHcuiars of this sad occurance, will
p0rhaps not be abated, until the final
InI'eStlgation is had in the Superior
Oonft of Alamance. when Mr.. swep-
'A Will be placed on trial. The fol-
ING n Geographic dispatch gives us
Sltuatlon, until that time:
RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. 2. 1876.
'"epson's examination concluded to-
., '' de was admitted to bail in the
Sum hi OF $4,000 aud has given bond for
appearance at next term of Ala
0e Superior Court.