GOTHAM’S THOUSAND WELLS.
“It is not generally known that there are over 1000 artesian wells on Manhattan Island,” said a gentleman who had made the subject a study to a Mail and Express reporter. “ Many establishments, such as breweries, malt houses and manufactories, which require a large supply of water, have found it to their advantage to sink wells so as to save paying the city water rate. The wells are not always successful, for the projectors cannot always tell the nature of the formation they are going to bore through until they get there. A contractor agrees to sink a well at from six to twelve dollars per foot, according to the hardness of the strata he has to go through ; then he goes to work with the same methods perfected in the oil regions, and boies at the rate of about twenty feet a day, and after going down about 400 feet he probably strikes water, though sometimes not until much deeper, and sometimes not at all.”
“ Which is the most successful well in the city?”
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