Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-08-29
THER WELLS

Some of these wells were sunk years ago
and because of mineral and other impurities
were closed up: but within few years were
cased or plugged so as to cut of the obJec-
tionable waters.
The Hoopeston well went Chinaward years
ago; but now is plugged al 300 feet
The RuShyille well. sunk $500 feet. is now
| L 3ed at .6lS feet, at a cost of $500
The McComb well. sunk 4S5 feet and aban-
doned is now cleaned out and cased tight
about 1900 feet. at an expense of 81 900.
Ottawa last year abandoned her other
source of supply and put down deep we'll
wards plugged il at 900 feet.
Ipaya cased 070 feet to cut OFF salt water
Clinton. Iowa. cut off surface and mineral
impurities at $50 feet. and went on down.
AT Jacksonville and Streator alone of all
those reported deep wells were sunk that are
classed as failures and because no effort
was made to case off mineral impurities. At
Jacksonville another well is down about 1000
feet, and all objectionable water is being
cased off with a reasonable prospect of sue
cess, as Mr.. Greenleaf writes me.
And 50 we tind that these and many other
cities stumbled along for several years be-
fore they discovered that there was an
abundance of good water at hand. With
these many wells around US furnishing
wholesome. pure and good water from the
st, Peters and the upper POtsdam. have we
not good reason to believe that we can get
good water heres The United States Geol0-
gist advises that we ought to get good sup
way to the Potsdam. w H. Gray s Bros, of
Chicago in response to inquiries Tor the To-
cation OF deep wells sunk near here. also
wrote me on the 22nd inst. IF your council
Is in earnest and wants to put in a good
water-works system we viii come 10 your
city and make you proposition to drill
we'll of the proper size and give you all the
water YOU need for your city. and we will
also guarantee the quality OF the water and
II we fail to get what we guarantee either in
quantity or quality then it won't cost your
city single dollar" l do not know these
gentlemen. The correspondence with them
arose from a communication to them from
il n hey n =
confidence both in the quality aud quantity
OF the water attainable. What reason have
we to believe that the Griswold spring if
pure now VIII be SO in seasons OF freshets or
great dr0uth or remain 50 long: The gravel
ana sand where the spring is now located is
not less than twelve feet deep and possibly
acres of land covered with manure and re-
Iuse, sewerage ana occasionally dead AMI
mails. and being impounded in the GriSwold
dam II cannot long be pure. The day cannot
be far distant when expert chemists Will de-
monstrate TO you that the water is more tit
Tor fertlllzlng purposes than Tor human con-
sumption. 1t win not answer to say that
you mad the water analyzed, for if on a Sec
ond analysis or a third Il should prove 70 be
corrupt anu very unwholesome 1t viii not be
the first instance in Southwestern Wiscon-
sin, and If your plant then has 10 be torn out
my erring friends don't complain Ii inn
pur1tles can go through fifty feet of clay
why not through fifteen feet of sand and
loamt / am informed that after several
conflicting analyses il was demonstrated
= ~
miles OF Monroe that was fit for domestic
use.
In my article objected to putting in s-inch
pipe as light as Y pounds per foot tas hrst
propOsed) where there was TO be from $50 to
40Ofeet head. By the engineers tables com
puted that it should weigh 52.2 pounds per
foot. and cited several cities that used pipe
weighing from 30 to 50 pounds per foot with
much less head than we have. 1t is now pro-
posed TO put in 44-pound pipe and it is said
that the heavy pipe of those cities was put in
to guard against accidents and Jars from
outside pressure. To my letters the follow
ing answers have been received from the
chief engineers OF various cities.
Providence, r. /. Head $50 feet. Il have
your favor of the 18th instant and will say
that an s-inch pipe to be used under head
| of 400 feet ought not to weigh less than So
pounds per foot. There is rarely a case
where pipe is used to convey water that a
checking of the flow. even a slight one. is not
| likely to bring water hammer that requires
an extra thickness to resist it. The stan
| dard weight for our S-inch pipe for $50 feet
| head is AZ 81 pounds. should not be willing
to use lighter pipe under that head for city
distribution
Boston Mass. Head 1870 feet. The s-inch
| pipe in use here weighs Gncluding 1-twelfth
| of the weight of belD 80 pounds to the foot.
| This weight is not specially for the purpose
| OF resisting the external pressure, but is sup
posed to be absolutely safe for the pressures
we carry.
Chicago HI. Head 125 feet. using 5O-pound
| pipe. In answer to your of 18th instant /
| wish to state that l consider the thickness of
the material in the s-inch proposed to be laid
at your place. under the circumstances en-
tirely too small. as can be seen by the follow
| ing figureS:" Then follows an algebraical
demonstration, showing that the pipe should
weigh 50 pounds per foot.
Lowell, Mass Head 200 using 49-pou nd pipe
in answer to yours of the 18th relating TO
S-inch water pipe we are still using the
heavy pipe such as you mention on our
works and consider il necessary as we carry
pressure of about 81 pounds per square inch,
and there is the back pressure and liability
of water hammer forming which will send
the pressure higher.
Milwaukee, Wis. 200 feet head using so
pound pipe. Your letter with reference to
the weights of 5-inch cast-iron water pipe
used in this city has been duly received, and
in reply would state that we use s-inch pipe
weighing so pounds to the foot. because we
think II absolutely necessary to resist the in
tprnai nreSSurP nine a I times III