BURTON WATERS—DRINAING AND BREWING. 23. 
not altogether reliable, as a matter of fact, no evidence of 
the Bunter being reached at either of the places named is 
forthcoming, and consequently Mr. Molyneux’s interesting 
theory of the double fault explaining the position of these 
beds is not necessary. 
At Messrs. Salt & Co’s. boring in the ‘‘ White Horse” yard, 
the water ran 6 feet above the surface, when the tube was 
first sunk in 1868, whereas fifteen years later it did not 
reach the top of the tube. The water was a very saline 
one, with only a moderate amount of gypsum in solution. 
During recent years Messrs. Worthington & Co. have 
sunk tubes over 500 feet at the back of their offices in 
High Street, and, without reaching the Bunter beds, secured 
an apparently inexhaustible supply of a very hard gypseous 
water, almost as hard as, but much more saline than the 
marl-water before referred to, and in the latter respect 
resembling Messrs. Salt & Co’s. ‘‘ White Horse” yard water, 
the temperature common to both being about 56° F. 
Within the last two years, the Burton Brewery Co., and 
the Corporation on behalf of Messrs. Salt & Co., have sunk 
tubes by the railway crossing in Wetmoor Road (old 
Anderstaff Lane,) and struck the Bunter beds about 280 
feet from the surface. Stopping the bores at 400 feet, they 
both obtained a copious supply of a moderately hard saline 
water, quite distinct from the deep bore waters of the marl. 
The water in both these tubes comes out at the surface 
with considerable force, and its temperature is about 55° F. 
Quite recently, Messrs. Bell & Co., on their Brewery 
premises between New Street and Park Street, have driven 
a tube through the Marl beds without obtaining any water, 
* until at 410 feet they struck the hard sandy rock of the 
lower Keuper beds, the water in which however did not 
* Note: these particulars added since the reading of the paper. 
