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the mean of water required at a little over 124 barrels for 
each barrel of beer, it will be found that not less than 
50,000,000 barrels, or over 1,800,000,000 gallons of water 
have to be obtained every year in order to carry on the 
staple industry of the town. This, of course, altogether 
dwarfs the 400 or 500 millions of gallons required for general 
domestic use, more than 2 of which is probably supplied by 
the S.S.W.W. 
Molyneux also said ‘In addition to the supplies of the 
ordinary wells, attempts have been made to obtain water 
by artesian borings into the different deposits upon which 
the gravel rests.” In 1863, according to the same authority, 
Messrs. Bass & Co. sunk a well in their New Brewery 
Yard Station Street, through 26 feet of gravel into the 
Keuper marl, and then boring through 70 feet of gypseous 
marls, obtained a fine supply of water from a bed of loose 
sand and gravel; whilst in their Middle Yard, a boring 200 
feet deep failed to reach any water. I can quote a similar, 
even more marked example of this uncertainty in obtaining 
water from the marl beds. At Messrs. Robinson’s Brewery, 
a deep tube was driven, in 1870 1 believe, and a copious 
supply of very hard water secured at a depth of about 100 
feet, the tube was driven 150 feet deep, but the chief 
supply came in between 95 and 120 feet. In 1883 Messrs. 
Robinson’s tried to obtain an increased supply by driving 
a tube 150 feet in the marls at about 20 yards to the west 
of their first tube, and failed to find any trace of water, 
although apparently passing through the same strata; 
whereas Messrs. Salt & Co. have three tubes [close to the 
Staffordshire Knot in Station Street,] not 60 yards N.E. of 
Messrs. Robinson’s first tube, which draw a steady, if not 
a copious supply of hard water from a depth of about 95 
feet. The temperature of these waters is constantly the 
same, 52° F., but the water level has been steadily falling 
since they were first put down. I understand from Mr. 
