Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-01
ARTESIAN WELLS.
FLOWING OF WATER AND GAS FROM
sUBFERRAEEAN SOURCES.
joaquin Valley-Depths, Tempera-
ture and Volume.

Written for the REC RD- UNION by C. E. Grunsky,
Assistant State Engineer. Data from personal re-
ports to the State Engineer.
During visit to that section on Dscem.
Der 9th, which day was cold and foggy,
gratefully accepted the kind invitation of
Cutler Salmon, who lives in San Joaquin
county, two miles southeast of French
Camp, to step in and sit down by the fire
while he told me about his well. l entered
the house, which, though plain and plainly
furnished, gave evidence of the desire of
its occupants to live comfortably. While
seated before an ordinary parlor stove, l
was requested to note the popularity of
the system of heating. Throwing open
the doors of the stove, the proprietor re-
vealed in the place of CRATE filled with
hot Goals and an ash pit beneath, simply
rectangle of gaspipe, with crosspipe, and
burning from small holes in the pipe large
number of small jets of gas.
sUBTERRAEEAN GAS AS FUEL.
"You see can regulate my fire, said Mr..
Salmon as he, without rising from his seat,
turned the throttle valve in supply pipe.
As he did so, the flames in the stove grew
until the stove was filed with fire, throw
ing out an abundance of heat. Having
turned down the gas again to moderate
flame, Mr.. Salmon continued 81 have
lust the same arrangement in the kitchen
we do all our cooking with gas, as we'll as
our heating and our lighting. Not stick
match. We never let our fires go out as
We have a great abundance OF gas. We
use no coal oil. Oar stove is ou- ventil.
ator, for you see we let all the products of
combustion escape through the chimney.
There is no smoke, no SCOT, no ashes ev-
erything is clean, as you see it now. The
gas is odoriess so are the products of
combustion. More wonderful, though,
than the gas itself and our utilization of
it, is
THE SOURCE WHENCE IT EAIANATES.
Come and see" MIR. Salmon led the way
out to small 10 by 10 structure, which
stood at the roadside about $50 feet west
OF his house. Entering we found a circular
cemented tank or receiver, the top of
which was level with the floor of the build
ing, and about three feet above ground. 1t
WIS full of water. In the center of the
reservoir was the gasometer, the lower
edge of which extended nearly down to the
bottom of the reservoir. 1t was made fast
to the bottom by means of iron rods.
From it's top gas pipes led off to the house.
Under the gasomtt9r which you see be.
Sol1
two pipes discharging water. One has
diameter of seven inches, and brings water
from depth OF S44 feet the other has a
diameter of four inches, and is sunk within
the first to depth of $50 feet. | was
boring for artesian water and at S44 feet |
struck it. The seven-inch pipe yielded
good supply of good water, but l wanted
TO INCREASE THE FLOW.
In order not to detract from the quality
Of the water already obtlined, in case
lower strata of poor quality should be
found, decided to go deeper with four
inch pipe, instead of covering the seven
inch pipe. At / $50 feet l was rewarded
by copious flow of water. 1t proves to
be unfit for use in the house, as you per.
ceive by its tlste. My well.borer to test
the pressure under which the water existed
in the lower stratum, extended the four
inch pipe above ground, and found that
water would rise in it % feet. 1t was aug-
gestsd to try if the gas that was rising IN
considerable quantity in bubbles would
burn. Touching a lighted match to the
top of the pipe above the water, the MKT
ure of gas and air in the pipe exploded,
nearly knocking the man who lit it off
from his uercb on tho ladder
TESTING THE GAS
Again, by means OF an inverted coal oil
can with an open top and holes in it's bot.
tom, it was found that the gas would burn
with a steady flame from these holes, and
I at once had the gasometer arranged as
yon see it to-day. The pressure of the
rater above the lower edge of the gasom-
ayer is sufficient to force it into the house.
Our supply is much greater than we have
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