The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-13
DOWN OVER coo FEET.
The Artesien Well Flowing 2.324, 900
Gallons a Day.


Gallons Day.
The deep artesian we'll has now reached a
depth of about 500 feet, and the drill is still
in the rock, which is a limestone formation
of varying degrees Of hardness. Occasion
ally the drill strikes thin stratum of
granite formation.
Supt. James Manning of the water works
and City Surveyor Col W. J. Vim
made a measurement Of the flow
of the well at o'clock yester-
day afternoon by the Trautwine
system, and the calculation showed that the
well is flowing at the rate of 1924, 100 gal
Ions per day, about one-third as much
water going to waste as is being pumped
from the twenty-five artesian wells of the
water works. the highest claim being made
that Z, 100000 gallons are supplied daily by
the water works.
Supt Manning and Col. VIM both think
that the well is a $500, 000-gallon well, as
the flow increased materially after the
measurement, which was taken immedi-
ately after the drill had been lifted out, and
before the drillings had been pumped off.
The measurement of yesterday shows that
the daily flow has increa ed since last
Thursday about 100000 gallons.
As the flow OF water increases much in
terest is manifested in what will be the re-
suit when the drill gets through the rock.
IT is believed that much more powerful
vein will be struck, and it is confidently
asserted by many who have studied the
history of the deep artesian wells of the
Alta tic coast in Florida, that the we'll on
the Springfield plantation will be, when
completed, 100000 or 100000 gallon
we'll
1t required 29s minutes to bring up the
heavy .ools from the Bottom of the we'll,
although the drum, which wound up the
long cable to which the drilling tools are
attached, revolved at the rate of 200 reyo-
buttons to the minute.
The well is curiosity worth seeing, and
quite number of visitors, on foot and in
carriages, were at the we'll while the meas
urements were being made. On Sundays
hundreds visit the well, whose waters rise
nine inches above the surface of
the twelve-inch pipe under the enormous
Z pressure, and flow like cataract through
the ditch five feet wide toward the river.
The colored people come from great dis.
lance with buckets to carry off the water
for household and drinking purposes, and it
is blessing to them, as they have been
using surface water, which is unpalatable
and unhealthful. Every minute over 1000
gallons of water is wasted.
Supt Manning was asked by MORNING
NEWS reporter yesterday if the heavy flow
of the new well has tended to lessen the flow
of the twenty-five old wells from which the
water works are now pumping the city's
supply, and he said that there is no percepti-
bic diminution in the flow of the wells now
in operation, nor does he think they have
been affected by the new well.
1t is estimated that eight such wells as
that nearing completion will amply supply
the city for years to come, and if a heavier
vein is struck below the rock in which Con-
tractor Joyceis now drilling. less number
of wells will answer
Very good progress has been made the
last four days of last week. Contractor
Joyce estimated the depth of the we'll last
Tuesday night at $50 feet, and when drilling
was suspended yesterday he said that the
we'll is all of 800 feet deep, showing
that $50 feet have been drilled in four
days, and portion of the time the
drill was working in the fiint-like granite
formation, in which the progress was nee
essarily slow. AS the we'll becomes deeper
the friction is heavier The tools now have
to be lifted and dropped against the heavy
pressure of the water in well twelve inches
in diameter and 800 feet deep, making
resistance that needs only to be computed
to be appreciated.
The work of drilling will be resumed to-
morrow morning, and if no accident inter-
yenes by next Saturday night the depth
attained will be greater than 1000 feet.
if the pagress is as favorable as during the
past week