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its full depth, but we may complete our reservoir of the desired 

 size, and arch it over and fill all above with clay, after having 

 put in the pipe and coating it with coal tar. Ordinary wells are 

 sunk of the diameter of four feet ; the brick work y'lU occupy 

 eight inches, leaAang three feet and four inches, — a very convenient 

 size to get down for the purpose of cleaning out or for repairs. 

 If a well of this size is walled up, say six ftet, we shall have a 

 reservoir sufficiently large for all practical purposes, say of fifteen 

 barrels. By enlarging the well at the bottom, which is practicable 

 in a stiflTclay, the space could be doubled, if desired. 



In arching over and filling above with clay we have several ad- 

 vantages, which these gas-pipe pumps give us. There is no danger 

 from rats, mice, or rabbits getting into it, nor will autumn filfit 

 with leaves ; consequently it will need no annual cleauings to keep 

 the water pure, but at all times will be reliable. In the next place 

 it will be free from surface water, the slops of the kitchen, or, if 

 near tlie barn, the drippings of the barnyard. These are all de- 

 sirable qualities, but yet there are some others. An iron pump 

 costs little, if an}^ more than a wooden one, but the cost of brick 

 walls that can be dispensed with is something to consider. To 

 wall up a four foot wall of twenty-five feet will require two thou- 

 sand two hundred and fift}' brick; for six feet with arch, six hun- 

 dred and fifty, making a difference in favor of the gas-pipe well of 

 one thousand six hundred brick. These brick at the kihi are worth 

 at least sixteen dollars, often more, and, taking the average dis- 

 tance, to haul them would cost not less than nine dollars ; which 

 makes a saving of cash and labor of one dollar a foot, or twenty 

 dollars for a twentj'-five foot well. This twenty-five dollars would 

 build a small cistern or do something towards a large one. We 

 may oflfset the filling in of clay against the walling up of brick, 

 and then we have no trouble about making the platform mouse and 

 frog proof, nor is *lie water fouled by the rotting of the pump 

 stock. In either '.-■'fie the digging of the well is the same, but the 

 saving of brick v" Tuore than sufficient to pay for an iron pump and 

 pipe. Well buckf^ts, well sweeps, and windlass are thus swept away 

 by this new invention. 



In this case wc need no perforated point, and we simpl}' have 

 the pump, which costs from six to eight dollars in Chicago, and 

 twenty feet of mpe, (the pump making five feet,) which will cost 

 thirty cents a loot, if of one and a quarter inch pipe. These pumps 

 and the pipe utc sold b}' large quantities in Chicago, and by several 

 houses, and the prices given arc for single pumps and accompany- 

 ing pipe. At wholesale thc}^ cost fifteen to thirty per cent, less, 

 according to amount of invoice. 



The pipe in in lengths of from four to seven feet, and to obtain 

 pipe of the required length one length must be cut and a new 

 thread worked on it by hand. The wholesale men do not fit these 

 yumpR ■ they simply sell so many pumps and so many bundles of 



