New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-05
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CITY
WHY THEY ARE COMING INTO Use.
THEIR ADVANTAGES FOR BREW ERs-TALk WITH
IrssT BUTTON.


THEIR ADVANTAGES FOR BREW ERs-TALk WITH
JESSE BUTTON.
About forty artesian wells have been dnf I'D TINS
citv the greater number being used hy brewers
Baur & Betz have well 500 feet deep yielding
. 600 barrels daily. Peter Docgcrs well Is 5u2
feet deep. and yields 100 barrels. The wei ~
David .Jones's brewery is 662 feet deep and gives
I 900 barrels and the wells OF George klngler a
Co are 800 and 500 feet deep respectively yielding
about 1. 800 barrels each. Conrad STEM has wen
qoo foet deem. producing 800 barrels. and John
= Rottmann's well T. 800 feet deep, yielding 800
barrels The wells Of Clausen x Price arc $50
o,d eoo feet deem one well producing 200 barrels.
tbe other not being in use. A. Finck & Son also
hove two wells 800 and 40 feet deep respectively
rroducing alont 1900 barrels The well of Elias
4 Ectz is 600 feet deep aud yields 1.200 barrels
and the well of T. G. Lyman 4 Co. Is 900 feet deep
but is not flowing at present. symonds " haui-
mann have an artcsian wei at the foot Of West
Fortv-sevepth-st that yields 100 barrels an hour
aud has welded 200 barrels IN eleven hours. At
fine brevery Of Flanagan * Wallace Is q well sunk
800 feet. producing 1000 barrels daily Roe
Brothers. provision dealers, have a Wei IN West
Thirty -s,.veuth--t. 500 feet deep, yielding l,3uo
barrels dailv NcMliugcr Schmidt y Co. have IN
tiop Vel M fine foot of East Sixty -thiTd-st. that
ovcriows. The We'll Is 400 feet deep g., -.
t.eorrr Fhrrt. the brewer. has wei AZ Ninety
secnr,d- ST. between Second and llirl-aNts.. in
which seven holes were drilled IN dhcpui dfrc-
fous and al different angles only one being NriN-
cal The boring was carried to depth oil about
$50 feet ou the aNcr1gr the longest ai M ahb'
being 4J7 feet deep. Nntcr was struck 100 nH the
borinps and au abundant supply ms i"ri 'hidlu'h
,,,,tirncnslv Al fh. Fifth Avenue Hotel . boring
vas road, 10 o depth of 2.lon feet. where the wofk
was stopped. Some streams OF water were reached
a TRIrt-vr r'poricr recently asked Jesse Button,
An engineer and contractor for the horlnG ol arc
alan wells about the advantages of such wells Tor
and Itf
nm extensive experience 100 this kind of engineering
work and spoke 40 length 100 regard {" as inrIl~ 81,
have been engaged in boring arc-lan wells
since l~,Or he said some of those that ! sank
i'm Massachusetts between 1870 aud lNbI nave
not failed to yield good supply ana some "l 'l. i
have increased their weld. mere Wa- one W'lI
that bored IN 1901 that yielded 600 gallons
miuutc for seven Yeas AMI suddenly, hI"Ne iH'"
$50 gallons IN this city There u hardly any pa &c
beI,,, TWrutN thirl-st. 100 which artcsian wells
cannot be- bored that will yield large quantity OF
water A we'll might Ice dug in every block M NV
York without interfering with ITS nrighhor. ] De
average dcpth of su,h wells will hc 100 feet Above
Twenty third-st. there Is no WattrScd Inc cover
ing over the rock being slight. Inc wells are sup
piled from the surface COLLECTIONS az wafer, ana
great Part of 10 pctrolacs through the rock. gel.
into the Ledge and runs of. ON the north Hde OF
Manhattan Island there d. not sufficient oN"rhF-
ing Of earth To- retain the water u runs INTO the
sewer ana has no chance 10 get into the rock. ION
rec # the rock IT. oycraid with earth tho water
enters the earth and drains lni" The ro'k' inakns
IA ,vatrr-hrd- "a reservoir that holds u NJ that u
can pass un. I'm the centre Of the city Inc wafer
seldom rises higher than within eighteen or twrniy
feet of the surface and n becomes necessary J." Pn'
il, deem well pumps 90 raise the water. Pumps Tor
this purposes have % peculiar coh~l incil"n' 49, iH
pumping oil 100 mines from great depths.
V hat are -oiuc 81 the adv anitgcs OF afic'lah
wells p asked The reporter.
Artcsiau wells have am evcn trnIffainfe "l
Bib ar 80 the year round. Their yield oi water
confirms mo- vegetable matter having none OF me
impurities in surface streams. ne supply j. JAZZ
WAYS equal wear DO and year OUT ana in'I''~
rather than dimu,llra One we'll. The cost OF whi'h
is about $1,000 Will pas Tor itself iu year d a
man uses 1.OoO 20 1000 barrels oi water - ohF.
In regard To brewers, nrtrsian WriH are ""N anna
poems by reason of the colln.>s Of thr vutrf Beer
must be- kept 10 ib and when .rrN'g IL I' I'""'r'l
to that temperature. Now 10 taxes large phl'ht
Of ice to reduce Cruiou water from ITS iiu l1tufr
of 20 to iGl. hut not gTrat deal of lrc to hilng
sricsian well water from - to thc required irH-
perature. Arcsnn well water ~ Hi~o superior 10
CToton for domestic purposes on a'' ""Nt OH Us
purity II contains very httlr mineral, nlih"1th
som, times 10 has some iron lu 10. which - got "J.
touablc i0nk 80 The large. nouy mem OF Vermont,
for instance Tho water thcy drink contains car
donate Of lime. and to that ] attribute 300 Er 81
measure their si1c. lo only ".y''i'n w. lif II.
ence Of lime in wetrr - 300 thr runuiug of .D.Irf
hut with certain apparatus 30 can hc un With amy
kind Of water uu---. OF course. 90 should contain
a'trc sr,rsiau w,l, very mach cheaper than
Most decidedly. Croton consumer. paw -
CENTS % hundred ,ulic feet Large dcai"r. pay b.
! crurs for th. sam. quantity. ~nur dealers paF
80 600 10 year iu water taxes. and If thrt u-cl al
/ the vstrr thrg R4u.sd thry would pas from
/ $4,000 fo $40 900 The demands of ma lfi. 'ur-
ing interests Iro increasing -" rapidly in iI upper
/ part OF th" civ iltt il lr-- tltu itr ltIt-, !
/ think. the rofnu VIII uot supply onc. huu "i ih'
/ city. have olf.n iAuugaf tAat Wrrr acY1'.' d
With member. Of tlc tr"t"n l"Htf should .u.t- i
20 them tho ado,nt oi great quaint ir" 'l "uiti '"
the tr0tou supple, l} boring artcslau VOLS along
/ the main line of fhr Cruton. AT wells 900 thr
/ mountains up there would Boz ovcr.iow-Wris Ike
/ those BOO IaIrytown that produce zo'o 90 .tW"
barrels dly. OBS OBJ" selection of proper .ltU@-
/ ton 30 would Doe ro-..ul. 90 add Do, in'ausof "n.
vtl 100000 haT.i- 900 ttrrt t"fntt -i'ur h'uf- Pro-