394 eeport— 1878. 



Mr. John Wood. 



1. Works, Medlock Vale. 3. Bore-bole, 761 ft. 7. Water was met with in 

 the Lower Permian sandstone, and flowed over the surface. 



Ft. in. 



9. Alluvial gravel 26 



New Red sandstone 23 



Permian marls, with bands of 



gypsum and limestone 246 3 



Lower Permian sandstone 375 11 



Coal 90 



. 761 2 



1. Collyhurst Sand Delf. 5. Exhausted after 12 hours' pumping. 8. Water 

 hard, but transparent. 9. Lower Permian sandstone. 



Mr. John Knowles. 



1. Broughton Road Paperworks. 5. 100 gallons per minute. 



Feet. 

 9. 1. Stiff, close hard stuff, probably drift and New 



Red sandstone 210 



2. Red loam, with mixture of clay and shale (pro- 

 bably Permian sandstone) 150 



3. Hard bands (probably coal measures) 120 



720 

 Messrs. Worrell's Works. 



1. Ordsal. 3. Well, and bore 460 ft. Pumped for 12 months, yielding 

 717,120 per day. 8. Water brackish, probably due to this well being on the dip 

 of all the others, and the ponding up of water causing impregnation of the water 

 with salt. 



Name of Member of Committee asking for information, Mr. De Ranee. 

 Name of Individual or Company applied to — ■ 



Mr. Binney, F.R.S. 



1. Messrs. Hoyle's Works, Mayfield. Ft. in. 



9. New Red saudstone 143 4 



Permian marls with bands of limestone... 153 9 



Lower Permian sandstone 59 4 



Particulars of Whiston Pumping Station, given by Mr. Stooke. 



Works occupy one statute acre ; 50 in. cylinder single power expansion engine ; 

 9 ft. stroke ; capable of delivering 1,000,000 gallons. 



1870. — Two wells, 9 ft., diameter, 45 yds. ; then carried on as one well; at 59 

 yards, yields 200,000 gallons per 24 hours ; at 75 yards ( = 25 ft. O.D.), yields 

 400,000 gallons per hour ; bore-hole, 18 ft. to 104 yards ; fault, 2 + to 1 ; average 

 yield, 320,000 gallons. 



1872. — Tunnel Eastwood, 240 yards in length to boundary of township ; 

 fiBsures laid open ; water, 430,000 gallons; at 87 yards strong spring forced back 

 the rock and endangered the men's lives ; 500,000 gallons pumped out daily, and 

 the water rose 43 yards during the 24 hours. 



7 do. supplies 640,000 gallons per day ; auxiliary well at end of tunnel at 53 

 yards yields 380,000 in 24 hours ; at 75 yards yields 470,000 in 24 hours ; combined 

 wells yield 970,000 gallons in 24 hours. 



Sept. 1875. — Average daily yield, 1,000,000 gallons ; connection of two wells by 

 tunnel ; borehole for auxiliary well less than 240 ft. 



1876. — Mean daily supply, 868,000 gallons ; latter half of the year, mean daily 

 delivery was 938,000 gallons. 



