Well-Boring for Water, Brine and Oil

Excerpt from Well-Boring for Water, Brine and Oil: A Manual of Current Practice With the dissemination of knowledge bearing upon sanitation, and a general recognition of the terrible risks of pollution in wells supplied by surface drainage, it is to be hoped that the days of the shallow dug well arc closed for ever. No price would be too high to pay for absolute security against contamination of the most essential and most largely consumed article of our daily food; and no matter how costly the deep bored well might be in comparison with the shallow dug well, its advantages would outweigh the initial expense. Hut to such a high state of efficiency has well-boring now been brought by the most advanced firms who make a speciality of this branch of engineering, that the outlay based on even a five or seven years' supply only is much less in a deep tube well than in a shallow dug well. Moreover, while the one is never-failing both in quantity and in quality, the shortcomings of the other arc sure to be emphasised during periods of extreme drought when our needs are most urgent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.