Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-02
9oRING FOR WATER
ELL At TEE CITY BANK BUILDING
y roVN ssVSNfY-OSE FEET.
.,-,,5 Journey Through Sand, Gravel and
pg,,,-snuek Tw'ng-Nia' Fss' Of Water.
Novel Operation Indoors

:, novel operation has been going on
he past few weeks in the City Bank
,,,.s on Market street, that OF
well indoors after the building
'''-o ,-rrcted. The idea was conceived
~ Nv penetrating the earth q sufi-
% =. distance much purer water could
- ,t,,ined. and in excellent quantities,
=. from an surface impurities.
,,,ordingly this plan has been car
q ont. and for the past three weeks
: ~ ,-,ey Bros, who are doing the work.
been busy in quest Of the aqua
l-'o With but one exception there
i-'. 10 otber indoor wells in the city,
~ ~ che operation Of boring this one
A5 u. roof has excited considerable in
~. This has been done quite con-
@.'l.,.rv. As the tackling IS attached to
''ll.-.n5ersicht Of the second story floor,
"a a. the rooms are high studded,
~ i considerable room to operate,
lJodinq the length Of the hrst story
20 through the sidewalk floor to the
,,.,om Of the cellar.
gsryey Bros. started about three
Is ago 10 drill this well, and ex-
800 IN finish about a week ago, but
~, had a fishing job on their hands,
- thew were delayed about ten days.
=. Starting to bore the well the first
..so,y feet was found to be nothing
AZ and. and then came about twenty
~. 80 nj sand and gravel. After getting
i,gn about forty feet the workmen en-
entered a bed of clay eight feet thick
shaved in the next ten feet
9TH a layer Of sand and
-.,vsl. A second layer Of clay was then
ned no, beiEg about seven feet thick,
s,clpding with six feet OF sand and
,,.yel. and then striking the bed rock,
mere the we'll now is, There are
,Tsnty-pine feet Of water In the well,
,,5 Yesterday the apparatus was en-
AGED In testing it as to quantity and
'rlllty. but had not fully decided be-
IRE they closed their laborS for the day.
Tbs well is now down seventy-One feat.
There is some question as 10 whether
he water will stand pumping to any
considerable degree, but IL will be de-
p,niped tomorrow. As the water in
,.s well when completed will be pumped
By steam regularly, il is necessary 10
nculate on the future supply.
Considering the nature of the strata
through which they have bored, Mr..
Hsrysy is Of the opinion that good pure
water can be obtained. As there are
tgo thick layers Of clay intervening, he
avs 10 would be impossible for polluted
water or surface impurities 70 percolate
through TO the well. The bottom OF
ne cellar is about fOrty-six feet from
ts bed Of the river, making the we'll
twenty-five feet below the bottom Of
he Ohio. A few believe, for this
reason, that the water obtained from
IBIS well will be practically river water.
A. present there is only difference Of
tra feet in the stage Of water in the
liver aud the we'll,
The only other indoor wells are at the
lee and Storage Co.'S buildings, where
here are three dry wells, Que being
about the same depth as the City Bank
veil, while the other two being sixty
sven aud sixty-fve respectively.
The well at the City Bank is some
shat larger than the ordinary well, be-
1g ten inches in diameter. The cost
Of constructing such a well, with cas-
Ing and all, is about "a a foot. Hervey
Bros. have had considerable experience
10 constructing wells, as they came
through this section of the country with
the first steam driller ever brought
here.