Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-16
SAFE WATER SUPPLY.
The Best Cistern Filter aud ell-wall for
Farm Purposes.

Farm Purposes.
Properly made, the brick partition
wall is. ] believe. the best possible els
tern filter 1t should be thoroughly &C.
mented on both sides for a foot or more at
the bottom where the sediment will col
lect in the side of the cistern to which
the water is admitted, and above that
use the soft brick for the water to filter
through. Such filter is absolutely
perfect / would make the cistern
large, so that supply can be secured
in winter and early spring when the
rains are copious and cold and | would
have manhole 10 each side of it, |
recently learned new method of
walling wells, which is cheap, requires
no skill, and insures the water against
contamination from surface water.
Instead of using stone or brick, glazed
sewer-pipe is put in with joints ce-
mented. The joints can be made abso-
lutely watertight, and with a we'll from
fifteen to twenty-five feet deep, as is
usually the case, il the clay be talnped
around the tile. as it should be, it
would seem impossible for any leach
ing from the surface to reach the bot
tom. For economy, eight-inch tile is
generally used, and when these small
tile are pat in it is well to tlrn Il small
arch with briel1bats to make reser-
voir for water for the tile TO rest on.
When the well is to be used only
for house purposes it is better to
dip the water and draw it with a wind
lass than to pump it. Use u bucket
of six inches in diameter, made of
heavy tin, with conical bottom, and
arrange it with a piece of strong wire
attached to the valve and coming to
the top of the bucket so that you can
open the valve ana allow the water to
run into pail set under it, and there
will be no lifting or pouring of the
water from the well bucket.
In walling well with tile or other
material great pains should be taken
to lamp thoroughly, especially as you
near the top. The best clay should be
reserved to use at and near the surface,
eAAN IL otiCulo pC loloCd ~ iOoO VI WV
above the level and so graded that the
water will flow away at once from the
well. Another cheap and very salts
factory plan with wells, especially
those for stock, in localities where the
stone is near the surface, is not to wall
at all, but arch with brick. starting the
arch on the ledge. | have three wells
finished in this way, two of them stock
wells ten feet in diameter. In this, as
In many other localities, we strike a
regular ledge of limestone four to six
feet from the surface, and here we cut
a shoulder and start the arch. If the
ledge is so far from the surface as to
bring the top of the arch below ground,
neck of hard brick car. be built up to
to the surface, and the arch should al
ways be topped out with large sewer
pipe extending foot or eighteen
inches shove ground; fit the pipe to the
arch with cement so tight that not even
drop of water can enter and then fit
good cover of two-inoh boards to the
top of the sewer pipe, and you will Sc
cure your cistern from all sources.
There are wells by the thousand in the
country with old rickety wooden curbs,
rotten at the foundation, and when the
wells are cleaned there is usually found
IN the foot of sediment the skeletons OF
rats, dead toads and other things suf-
acient to turn the stomach of a hand
saw. | appoint each reader of this a
committee of one to make careful ex-
animation of the we'll curb and its con-
nection with the wall. = Waldo +.
BroWn, IN N. Y. Tribune.