Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-04-29

over again IN repairs and II
tinkering and in losses sustained
through the unreliability of thei
equipment.
So far my personal acquaint
ance with the Estancia Valley il
largely confined to the distric
up and down the railroad ant
comparatively close to the track
| am informed by others of the
conditions existing back farther
| Judge this to be true: That ir
some places a thousand or even
fifteen hundred gallons of water
a minute may be developed from
the underfow and that in other
places one could not expect to
exceed four or five hundred gal.
Ions a minute.
| judge that almost always,
one can dig a pit below the per-
manent water level; that is to
say, that you can dig your pit
and when finally you enter the
strong strata, the water will be
artesian at some point between
the bottom of the pit and the
surface of the ground, rising
more or less in the pit when re-
leased.
| judge that the character of
the water in the lower strata is
frequently better than the sur
face water and likewise more
abundant. | am informed that
the ground stands up very we'll
and does not show much disposi-
tion to cave.
Under these conditions, if |
were making well, l would pro-
ceed upon the assumption that it
would be an average we'll, as to
capacity, until I knew better. |
would dig a pit down as far as |
could go without encountering
water and would cement it up as
| went down to prevent any pos
sibility Of its caving and cover
ing my pump | would begin at
the bottom Of the pit with the
best type of augur that can be
obtained, and bore a hole from
26 to 36 inches in diameter just
as far as could go with that
size. | would case the ground
that does not produce any water
with plain casing; but where
ever there was any water pro-
ducing gravel, would put in a
perforated casing with a world
Of holes in it. If necessary to
reduce the diameter of the hole
to get down as far as | want to
go, | would do so, but | never
would nave it smaller than 16
inches in diameter, and | would
have a perforated casing where
ever there was any chance to
get water. That is what you
are making the hole for, and you
don't want to drill a hole and
then shut the water out with
solid iron. | would make this
hole to whatever depth might be
necessary for the development of
all the water in that particular
spot. We have used what we
call a merry -go-round" as an
augur but | am informed that
there is a more satisfactory rig
built, altho | have never seen it
in operation. Our casing is
made Of sheet steel, sometimes
galvanized and sometimes of
black iron, 1t is slotted so that
about three -eights of the entire
surface is open for the admission
of water. This stuff is riveted
up. 1t is easy to handle and you
pat it in from time to time as
you go down. 1t does not follow
the drill.
Having completed my well |
would put in as large a vertical
centrifugal pump as l thought
the we'll would supply. This
pump | would hang on a steel
frame and not a wooden frame.
No matter how we'll wooden
frame may be made, it is bound
to warp, and shake to pieces.
Your shaft will get out of line
and all sorts OF trouble Will de-
velop. But with a steel frame,
if made right in the first place,
the thing stays right. 1t
should rest on a good cement
foundation at the top of the well
and be put in in a workman-like
manner. No matter what any
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