The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-02

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All In's rice-mll springs .................. 27 so
Axis rcemill springs O33
Puikan springs. Observation-Disclosures. 13 40
Mausoeun springs 925
.Waiawa ricemiH springs 7.S3
Walkee creek springs.
Total .............. Observation-Disclosures. 116 II
These springs all lie within a range of three miles
and before explained the volume here given repre-
sents only the larger streams that gathered in
such channels admitted of measurement, and such
as were not already appropriated and used for irrigation
of the extensive rice fields that fringe the bay below
them 1t represents too the natural flow forced out
against all mpedlments and that after eighteen months
of exceptional drouth.
We do not hesitate to say that a systematic develop
ment OF these springs would result in large increase
of the flow. Small drains in all direction through the
make unsafe footing would so facilitate the drainage
as to cut off the water that finds it's way to the sea
without entering the channels where the flow was
springs ceegas of frequent occurrence develop
ment by drain bitches, tiles and borings has not
commonly resulted in double and sometimes quadruple
the natural How. A definite plan for such work can
only be laid out after special survey and study each
the preceding page sufficient irrgate 1000 acres
of sugar cane, and have doubt that the supply
L 70 %op no ba o t.
matter to collect all the water into central pumping
station if it considered desirable to do So 1t would
probably be preferable however to establish two or
more pumping plants and deliver the water from each
to the plantation nearest to the supply -,
ARTEsIAN WELL SUPPLY
The discovery of the possibility of obtaining supply
of lowing water by deep artesan behring's around the
margin OF this island has been of ncalcuabe value to
all property interests, and has pensated in meas
ure for the loss occasoned by the perpetual robbery of
the waters that fall copiously upon the mountains
by the porous and thirsty earth and for the waters lost
during torrental storms by rapid drainage into the
On other island of the group has nature provided
Tor such compensation, and here the geological
formation is different from that of any other region
the world over where artesan water is obtained by
boring that no scientific would have risked his
reputation In predicting the possibility of securing
flowing wells by boring in the volcanic and coral for
the fact.
Mr.. James Campbell the present owner of Honouli-
having been bold enough to try the experiment which
resulted in the first flowing we'll in the kingdom This
we'll bored ten years ago on the lower slopes of
Honolulu rancho, and good flow obtained at depth
of 273feet 1t has been followed by so MANY successful
attempts in the same direction that the flowing wells
on the island number over 100 some of which
equal If they do not exceed, the flow of the largest
and most famous wells in California One of a group
of four wells bored by Judge McCully on King and
Beretania streets, Honolulu carefully measured
few days since by Messrs Alardt and Kl1ege and the
How was ascertaned to be 1893 cubic feet per second
or 2590OOO gallons in "a hours. The combined flow of
the four wells ascerained to be 1868 cubic feet
emit water supply of San Francisco city of more than
100000 inhabitants. Two of the smallest of them
flowing Al cubic feet per second are now made to
irrigate 100 acres of rice
marked popularity of this artesian belt is that it
IS c0nHneQ 20 marginal nm around the island from
sea level back to elevation of 81 to "a feet above
In and around the city of Honolulu or the Kona dis
trct, water will flow at the maximum height of ~ feet
In this district also the largest and strongest wells
obtained In the Eva district which includes all the
margins of Pearl Harbor and HONOLULU the limit of
rise 80 feet in the Waiaua district it is 81 feet and
the Koolau district the north side of the island
embracing the Kahuku rancho, the limit is 26 feet.
This data obtained from the last edition of Thrums
Almanac, in which is given list of all the wells and
their depths From this list it appears that the deepest
fo0Wng we'll is that Of Hon R. Bishop in this city,
l,UU depth. Of is a
alua on Dickson & Paty's ranch, 200 feet in depth
Five hundred feet thought to be about the average
depth record of one of Judge McCuy's wells shows
the following strata passed through
Surface soil
Coral.