WELLS
Canton, O., secures its water supply from a battery of thirty-two wells which are 200 feet deep and about 150 feet apart. The water is exceptionally pure and so cold it never requires ice in summer. Near the pumping station flows a creek upon which drafts are occasionally made at times of unusual consumption. The first wells drilled were eight inches in diameter and the last six inches. The cost of drilling was seventy-five cents a foot.
The work of testing the Baylis and Schuler wells for the purpose of ascertaining if the supply is enough to furnish the township of Kearny, N. J., with pure water has been begun. The Knowles company has erected a steam hydraulic pump, and will station an engineer, who will bike samples of the water for a further analysis.
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