The daily gazette., 1879-10-23
ArtesfaM WeiIs.

lHE1 HAVE COME ~ DE
WITH LARGE CONSUMERS OF WATER. |
Daniel Barlet, of 429 Minor street, is !
In the employ Of Jesse Button, engineer
and contractor, and borer of artesian
wells. The following is from the New
York World of October nth:
Artesian wells have become to be a
method OF water supply at the
breweries in this city, where the question
Of supply is important. The CrOtOn
water has in many cases been found in
adequate in quantity, uncertain in sup
ply at times and liable TO change in tenn
perature. Hence 1t has been in many
instances discarded altogether. At Doef-
gers brewery In Fifty-fifth street, near
First avenue, yesterday afternoon,
well-boring machine was IN full opera
ton. A wooden platform some sixteen
feet square has been set up, and above it,
running up to height Of so feet, is an
open frame work, of iron piping SO put
together as to be at once light aud strong.
II reminds one somewhat of the reef
lighthouses common OH the Florida
coast. At the top of this frame work is
grooved pulley or wheel, over which
runs rope extending down to the drill
hole directly below. by this arrange
ment the drill can be lifted clear Of the
hole when necessary. The ordinary
work of the drill is done by attaching
the heavy rope to long lever arm con-
Meeting with large belt drum driven by
small steam engine. The drill is
shaft of steel sharpeued and tempered in
the ordinary way 10 cut a hole " inches
in diameter. The drilling at this well
was begun on August II.
The work is in charge of jesse But
ton, who for twenty-five years past has
been busy boring away into Mother
Earth. "The large brewe,s." Mr.. But.
Ton says, "are beginning to find out that
water is pretty dear commodity. The
commissioner Of public works is putting
me ers on the sapp!y pipes and some
houses pay as much as $1,000 year for
water. Then when they get the water ii
does not rise above the second story and
has to be pumped up. In summer the
temper atrre OF the water runs up to 70
degre, s, and for cooling the beer it has
to be reduced by ice nearly to the freez-
ing pO.nt. In one brewery, after the
artesian well had got 10 work, the ice
consumption went down from seven cart
loads to one cart load day, and in an
other there was saving Of SO day.
The water comes up from the rock at q
te mperature of 81 degrees and sticks al
that summer and winter. The beel
must be reduced to temperature o.
about AZ degrees and much less ice il
required with well water"
''ls the supply certain"
ayes, when q well is put down and
the pump is attached, 1t can be used righ
along without any more fixing of any
| kind The well needs no cleaning ont
| it never blocks up and is not interm't
tent. The only change is that an ole
well or one that is literally drawn from
acquires larger flow. Such we find t.
be the case"
"What wells of this character are ther'
in the city?"
| "rhere is one at the brewery of Ella
4 Betz, Fifiy-fourth street and First ave
nue. II has 81 inch bore and goe
down 425 feet. Clausen 4 Price, Of fiji
ty-ninth street and eleventh avenue
have one which goes dOwE 625 feet. Tn
Higgins carpet factory, at Forty-thil'
street and Eleventh avenue, have Oh
which goes down 1901 feet. They us
1t there for getting pure water tor dye
ing. The Croton does not serve them q
well. David Jones, the ale brewer, ;
Forty fourth street and First avenue, Ia
well 6G2 feet deep, from which Ii
draws only TOO barrels day."
"What is the capacity Of the wells ?
"They may be made of any capacity
The 81 inch bore brings up as much wa
ter as the largest pump will throw, sa
| 4 Ils, laa oil 10 I,Tl
be made a foot across if Necessary, bu
El as u Betz take 200 barrels day OH
of their well and it is not worked up Il
its capacity. The wells will flow froi
100 and 1000 barrels on an average a
round"
care there many wells going down ?
No. l am doing all | can. Gee
Ring er has well down to 800 feet a
Ninety-second street, and it will produc
now 500 barrels per day, but we are e
ing down for more. The Doelger wi
% down about 900 feet"
What is the character of the water ?
'.lt is hard-that is, holds carbonate {
lime in solution, but for beer-making
is very fine. 1t may be put directly il
to the beer, or may be us d only i
cooling or washing out the vats."
"Do ho.els use these wells at all ?"
"No, not that know of; thOug
some of the hotels use pipes or drive
wells. In these the pipe is driven by
hammer down to the ledge or hard rocl
The water f ON the ground runs dow
that far and stops until the pips we
sucks it up again. That fetches a Coo
soft water, but about its healthfulness
am not so sure. 1t is really surfat
drainage. l do not know of such well
up town-say about Thirtieth street.
because the rock comes too near the su
face"
"What is the cost of the bored well
1t varies from So to $40 foot. TT
bore is lined with pipe down to the roc
and beyond that the hard rock forms
natural channel. The water lies
veins. Sometimes the drill will pas
through ,soft spot which is an indies
ton of water. We go down until "
have gone through enough veins to Civ
us full supply"
"There are no spouting or fiowin
wells?"
"Not in this section. The watt
comes up 10 .kwithin fifteen to .twent
feet of the surface and then stop
From that point it is pumped out"
go what extent are such wells prof
ably to be used ?"
"a hotel or any place where 500 ba
rels of water are used in day coul
with profit sink an artesian we'll. Th
is, the saving iu the water-tax woul