Daily Republican., 1886-07-19

Hart & Bro, pork butchers and pack |
ers at Fifth and Poplar streets, give
evidence In the great improvement
they are making that business Is good
with them. Last winter they butchered
about ten thousand hogs. but during
this summer they are dealing In Chi
oago pork. With the Improvements
they are m Aking they will double their
capacity for business, and next fall and
winter will butcher about twenty thou
sand hogs. They find ready sale for all
their hogs without the aid of branch
stores outside of Wilmington.
The firm is now sinking an artesian
we'll at the rear of the lot of one of their
new purchases adjoining the old Reli-
lance engine house. The contractor,
Samuel Melvin, Of Philadelphia, has
been at work at the well some three
weeks.
The we'll Is now about 40 feet deep
After going down about 2S feet solid
lrock was reached, and though Mr.. Mel
vim has worked almost day and night he
has only gone down about IL feet dur
ling the last two weeks. How much far
Ither he will have to go down In solid
rock Is one Of the things nobody seems
TO know anything aht ut The opening
lin the ground about inches in diane
> ter, into which water pipe with 3
aix-inch diameter opening is inserted
a and in this the heavy chisel stamps III
J way. A small portable engine work
= the machinery. 1t is a mistake to sup
a pose that Hart 81 Brother are SINKING
this well to evade the payment Of til
\ city water rent. They are sinking II 7
:. get clear, cold water, which IN muol
Il dad IN hu tp nnaFAflnnu.
tthey expect to keep on using city waite
as usual.
II Mr. A. j Hart does not think a cN
like Wilmington can be supplied wit
water by artesians wells. 1t would tax
. a large number of them TO supply th
city, and before the water could be use
;, it would be as warm as the Brandywin
=. water, An artesian well he though
y would do for a small village If streal
4 jcould be struck by the well digger'
:" The Messrs. Hart have no surety wha
i, lever that they will strike good vein I
- water hut they must go on at randoi
!, Iuntil vein is struck. These wells al
:, often sunk 800 or o Thousand feet befol
- vein of water Ia struck. Messrs. Hal
:, are hopeful to have this cold, fres
|. water for their fall butchering.
Another improvement under way
u ttbe erection Of an 1s.ton ice refrigeri
~ tor by the De Lavergne Rsfrigerat
n Manufacturing Company of New Yor
IA The old Reliance engine house purchase
,olby Messrs. Hart will be used for the I
10 frigerator, the ground floor to hold
u, new fifty horse power engine. Th
so so when com pleted willincrease the engi
90 power to 100 horses, and will in pI
IA portion double the capacity OF the bus
~ ness. This will be the eighty first !
trigerator Of this kind that the
~ lLavergne Company has erected. Sol
;" lof them take 10 tons of ice every
", hours, and they run down az low
iii four tons.
VI, When this refrie orator is compile!
,o and put in operation there will b'
OIL decidedly cool air through this lal
ia mandatory in the warmest wealth
.S, Messrs. Hart have recently comple
large four story brick building O.
~ lone hundred feet long, fronting on P
@ I'M lar street, for the accommodation
their increasing business, and will 81
commence the erection Of simi
,o. building adjoining the old engine no
~ . fronting on Fifth street.