WELLS

WELLS

The Frank Jones Brewing Company, of Portsmouth, N. H., will for the future be supplied with water from its own resources—a farm abounding in springs. The standpipe is 80 feet high, and 20 feet in diameter. It holds 200,000 gallons of water. A 12-inch exhaust pipe 750 feet long, connects it with the pumping station alongside of the wells, each 10 feet in diameter and 20 feet deep. At the station has been installed, a million gallons compound duplex Deane pump. On the side of the hill is a connecting gallery one thousand feet in length, from which it is estimated that a supply of half a million gallons daily can be obtained. The water from this gallery flows into the wells by gravity. The main which runs into the brewery is an 8-inch pipe 14,000 feet in length.

The Newark. N. J , board of health has made a careful analysis of the water of 4(52 wells within the city limits, The result shows that 57.17 per cent of these wells are “ contaminated,” 27,80 per cent are “suspicious” and 15,53 per cent are “ passable.” The board says that the wells of the city are contaminated to such an extent that their continuance is a standing menace to the public health and that, with one of the best water supplies in the world, it “seems almost criminal to allow the existence of surface wells.” Nearly all of the wells are in use for domestic purposes, and several of them supply water to manufacturers of rootbeer and soda water.