ARTESIAN WELLS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 3

ARTESIAN WELLS.

SUCCESS IN WAIKATO. Discussing the gloomy outlook : that h'ns 1 developed out: of 1 the drought,' tho Auckland Star" says:—"lt has boon -found necessary, to.have recourse to artesian wells • as tho only method of replenishing the water supply]-'in majiy of : tho country districts; In tho, Waikato/; excellent'!'results havo been achieved,- and. throughout the northj . wherever it has been found/'necessary. to bore, unlimited supplies! havo been tapped. Mr. H.- J. Gilbert, who recently .put clown arte- •> *ian bores in the Papatwitoq, Papakura, and M'aiuku . districts, says. that it is ! seldom ocessary 'togo depth of. 200 feet • striko a fair' supply of good water. On :'Miy-:farms, jn theso' districts 'it. has been < 'iid ricccssary to instal artesian wells, and • .'creameries liavc also established similar hods 'of supply. .At a' depth, of from, foot to'2oo foot the.diy weather has but ; ■ V effect, on tho artesian flow, and the ly' is practically inexhaustible. Boring Vi'aruku; present! . some difficulties, tho, ■ .try. being moro or less'volcanic, and difvt strata of pumico,.. peat, and timbei encountered, before tho. wator is' dis-:

■•,..rotl it". Urn bouklor beds';' The.flow varies Ji-om four to'fortj; gallons .per minute.. In the./majority of 'casesi it .is necessary that pumping apparatus should bo used to on6uro a flow, of water, the pressure from the back country bomg insufficient to force the water to: the stirfaco.'- . " '' >