The record-union., 1898-12-21


Quoting the tests of suburban wells
with a view to providing a clear and
pure water supply for the city, under
the direction of the Chamber Of Com
merce, yesterday made its report to
that body. The understanding has been
that if the report should be favorable
the City Trustees would be asked to
have the water supply taken from that
source. The report is Of exceeding in
terest to everybody in the city who de-
sires pure, clear, sweet water for do
mestic purposes. The committee con-
sisted of the President Of the Chamber,
D. A. Lindley; the Secretary, J. 0.
Coleman, and Director L. L. Lewis.
In addition to that Of the committee
Mr.. Lewis. presented a supplemental
report, which, while it agrees with the
committee, goes a great deal further
and directly recommends the adoption
of the we'll system for the city's water
supply and the purchase Of land under
which the underground stream flows.
Mr.. Lewis has made a. study of the
water question for the past thirty years,
and his report will be read with much
interest.
The report presented by the commit
tee and.signed by all the members, fol-
lows:
COMMITTEE REPORT.
To the Board of Directors, Sacra-
rento Chamber of Commerce-Gentle-
men: Since our report made al the last
regular meeting, we have completed
the 14-inch we'll on the Kellogg place
and tested it, first alone and then sim
ultaneOusly with a test of the old,
or 12-inch well reported on heretofore.
The test of the second we'll was more
satisfactory than that Of the first, in
asmuch as it showed itself TO be more
perfect well, the upper water being
cased off to a depth Of seventy five
feet without any apparent diminution
of the supply. This well was operated
continuously from Friday morning un-
til Sunday evening. Saturday noon a
1-inch centrifugal pump was started
pumping from the Pinch well, and
operated simultaneously with the pump
in the new we'll until operations We're
suspended Sunday evening.
The water stood in the wells about
thirteen and a half feet below the sur
face before pumping. Upon starting
the pumps it was lowered to about
thfrty-six feet in the new we'll and re-
mained at that point without apparent
diminution. The centrifugal pump was
set about twelve feet below the surface
of the ground. The suction pipe of the
centrifugal pump completely filed the
old we'll, so as to prohibit measuring
the hight of the water, but as the pump
is supplied by suction and operates sue
cessfully only at limited depth, ap-
proximately twenty-three feet, the fact
that there was a large, if not larger,
flow on Sunday evening than at Satur-
day noon, was conclusive evidence that
our test did not overtax the wells.
We have been more than pleased with
the demonstration of the fact that there
is enough water in a 12-inch we'll to
supply a pump with suction pipe as
large as the we'll from the first mo-
ment the pump was started and with
out diminution after pumping constant
ly for three days and two nights, and
without lowering the water in the
ground 200 yards from the we'll. We
feel that our tests demonstrate the ad-
visibility of more complete tests on a
scale that would admit of determining
various matters which could not be
touched upon in cur experiment. They
would require more numerous and more
perfect wells operated for a longer per
iod, and, if deemed advisable, in other
districts.
We. therefore, recommend that the
Board Of City Trustees be respectfully
petitioned to submit to the voters al
the prospective bond election a propo-
sition to appropriate $4,000 for the
purpose of making complete tests and
Of procuring necessary contracts or
from thirty to one hundred or more
acres of land for sufficient time to en-
able the city to adopt some plan fol
waterworks. The Chamber of Com
merce has an option on thirty acres OF
the Kellogg place at $3.50 an acre. and
it is estimated that tests could be made
and the land controlled for $4,000 OF
less. D. A. LINDLEY.
L. L. LEWIS.
J. o. COLEMAN.
Committee on Wells.
Before the discussion began. Mr.
Lewis supplemental report was read
as follows:
LEWIS SUPPLEMENTARY RE
PORT.
I am pleased to state our tests of the
water supply have proven a grand sue
cess.
After several days pumping we be.
came satisfied that We couldn't lower
the water with the pumps in use, anC
on Sunday, the 18th of December, We
made the following measurements:
From Well No. we arranged {
sluice with opening II inches wide
and the water ran through this to {
depth of six inches, with two-incf
pressure above the opening. Thi.
would give to the center of the open
ing 3 inches pressure. An opening
6x17 is 102 square inches, and this is
O. direct flow from the pump with G