The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-15
DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE.
RECENT OCCURRENCES IN THE LAND
or FIOWERS
A New Orleans Man Improves His Well and
Makes Il Flow 700 Gallons n Minutc-An
Attempt TO Establish a Colony i'm Baldwin,
AIa.-Othcr Matters of Interest.

Aia.--Othcr Matters of Interest.
Many of the more extensive manufactures
in the city, where large quantities Of water
are necessary, have resorted TO the use of arte-
sian wells. and while the supply furnished has
in most cases proved adequate, and the water
satisfactory 10 taste and smell. in some In
stances larger quantities than could be sup
piled by the drove wells were wanted.
To increase the flow of water has been
sometimes difficult. if not altogether impossi-
BILE, but the question has been at last solved
in satisfactory manner, and flow Of water
from single well of 100000 gallons in twen-
ty-four hours is an accomplished fact.
Among the fallaces regarding artesian
water in this city was one that 1t could not
be used for the manufacture of Ice. ms was
dsproved by the management Of the Crescent
City Ice Manufacturing Company, who used
Il for that purpose from the first.
Two artesian wells, $40 feet deep each. were
driven in the yard of the factory, on Front.
between Lafayette and Poydras streets, the
first furnishing water at the rate OF sixty gal
hons per minute. and the other eighty gallons.
Recently the company added new thirty-ton
ice machine to their plant, and larger sup
ply of water was necessary. third drove
well was determined upon, but even with this
addition, should il flow at the rate Of eighty
gallons per minute. 1t would not prove suilic-
eDt for their purposes.
Captain S. j. Whitesidcs, of Savannah. Ga.
who is vice-president Of the New Orleans
company, determined to venture on an expert
Inent 20 increase the flow of water. and that
he was successful can be demonstrated by a
visit 10 the cOmpany's works. where the How
Of water will astonish all. Instead Of an out
pour of so gallons per minute at the surface
of the ground he has secured an unreInliting
of three
above the surface. and the water IL pure, clear
ond sparkling, for IL Is slightly impregnatcd
with carbonic acid gas and is devoid of taste.
Captain Wbitesides found in Savannah
that by cutting of the pipe twenty feet below
the surface and attaching 10 the end pump
the flow Of water greatly increased. lie con-
cluded to try the experiment here. About
month ago the pipe Zone inch in diamcter)
having been driven seven hundred and forty
feet and flow of eighty gallons per minute
having been obtained. he set TO work. First
he stopped the flow and commenced digging
q well about thirty-five feet in circumference
around the pipe. He bad dug down twenty
feet, and secured the sides with brick well.
A pump with cylinder 1Sx2i inches, with
plunger twenty feet long was placed upright
in the bottom of the well. and at the surface
steam sylinder 1sx34 inches was placed YER
tically. and connected with the boilers inside
the building. A sx-inch discharge pipe was
connected with the pump, and all was ready.
Again the knowing ones were disappointed.
They had told Captain Whitesidcs that if he
stopped tho flow of water from the draw pipe
a sediment would form in il and choke the
flow Of water. The pipe had been closed
month, yet when II was opened and the pump
set to work the flow not only as great,
but nearly ten times greater than IT was at
first. The six-inch discharge pipe appeared
10 be almost too small to allow the
column of water which jutted forth to
"a in he
were soon overlooking. For four hours
steadily the water flowed and there was no
apparent diminution in the supply, nor yet
were the two other drove wells, not twenty
feet distant, affected by the discharge of the
immense quantities of water.
Captain Whitesides says by this means a
supply of 1,000. 900 gallons every twenty-fOur
hours s attanablc, while, by lowering the
pump TO still greater depth, the supply
would be still larger, and could readily be in
creased 20 2.000000 gallons III twenty-fOur
hours.-New Orleans Picayune.
An Italian Colony I'm Baldwin, Alabama.
The effort now being made, with every pros
pect of success. to establish en- Italian colony
in Baldwin county. is deserving of more than
passing notice. We have already seen how a
German of foresight established a few years
ago in this State a colony of Germans at Gull
man and soon transformed that barren region
into populous and thrifty community The
lands and climate Of South Alabama are ~
well adapted TO an Italian colony as those
of North Alabama arc 10 German and
scandinavian settlers. There Is "a set
Element Of Italians at Nineland, New
Jersey where the soil is very similar to that of
our Baldwin county. The farms there aver
age twenty acres. Mr.. lands. who sold the
land to the colony, SAYS that they invariably
pay for their places and get along well. There
is not an Italian in the poorhouse and there
is not beggar among them The Italians are
chaste industrious and saving. They are
clean farmers. painstaking and they know
how TO make both ends meet They grow veg
etables and small fruits for the New York mar
ket. They do not seek 10 make the staple crops
which only the rich landowners with ample
means and improved machinery can afford TO
grow, but they content themselves with such
fruits ard vegetables as are needed TO supply
the table and are in demand for canning
They find far more profit in small farming
than the more ambitious Western farmers and
Southern planters find in the more bulky
crops. In Nineland the Italians manage to
save on an average from $3.50 To $500 a year
In Italy they worked far into the night and
lived upon crust, but here on these sandy
lands they have shorter hours of labor and
find plenty instead of hunger.
The Italian settlement III Baldwin will
mean much 10 Mobile, If it is properly man
aged and developed. Fortunately there are
many Italians already settled in Mobile who
uuNc pOSlllou uuN fortune, ana the
newcomers will find warm welcome Italy
is hardly larger than Alabama, and vet its
population is half as large ms that of the Uni
ted States The redundant population must
bad an exit. 1t is coming to this country in
large numbers, and very naturally it looks
toward the gulf coast. which is so similar in
climate and conditions TO the coast of the
MediterTanean.-Mobile Register.
AHopeful Spirit.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal
Avalanche thus writes TO that paper under re-
cent date: The Mississippi delta from Cairo to
the Gulf of Mexico presents most interest
Ing subject for study and reflection Within
Its area there are 10000 square miles. or H.
00O, 900 acres of land unsurpassed in fertility.
and with forests of hardwood timbers sufii-
Gent 10 make all the furniture that this great
country will need for years TO come The
mighty Mississippi river. the inland sea and
great national thoroughfare. trayerses this
delta for thousand miles. and bears upon its
bosom the commerce of $4,000. 900 of our peo-
pie
At this time Congress has bill before il 10
donate sl0, COG. 600 toward building new levees
and repairing the old ones. With this all a
complete line of embankment will be erected
throughout its entire length, and the whole of
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