SURVEY OF THE ISLAND OF NEW-YORK. 
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Refused matter, as sand and other useless sweepings of streets, seventy-five loads per 
day, or about twenty-two thousand loads -per annum. 
Average price per cartman’s load for manure is twenty-nine cents (i, e. 1837-8.) 
The expense in collecting it, in 1834, was $76,124.59; sales of the same, $30,279.59. 
In 1836, expense $109,218.79; sales, $41,836.68. In 1837, expense $157,307,15 ; sales 
of the same, $47,700.86. 
'Borings in different parts of the city. 
1. Holt’s well, between Pearl and Water streets, near Fulton market, extended one hundred 
and twenty-six feet before striking the rock, and continued into the reck five hundred feet 
further, makings total depth of six hundred and twenty-six feet; two and half inch hole, 
except the upper part of two hundred feet, three inch hole. 
2. The old Rock well, near Trinity church, is twenty-six feet. 
3. The Manhattan well, in Duane-street, near Centre, is thirty feet deep. Dug 1799. 
4. The well at the corner of Bleecker and Broadway, is four hundred and forty eight feet 
deep. The rock was reached at the depth of forty-two feet, and carried into the rock four 
hundred and six feet, with seven inch hole, yielding one hundred and twenty thousand gallons 
in twenty-four hours. 
5. The well at the city reservoir, in 13th-street, is one hundred and thirteen feet deep, and 
seventeen feet in diameter ; and the rock was reached at the depth of fifteen feet, and carried 
into the rock with two horizontal shafts at bottom, one a hundred and ten feet and the other 
seventy-five feet. 
6. The well at the corner of Grand and Wooster streets is forty feet through filled in 
grounds; then twenty feet of mud, trees and vegetable matter, with drift; then six feet of 
fine blue clay ; and then six feet of sand, like that found on the surface; making a total of 
seventy-two feet. 
7. Well corner of Green and Thompson streets. - 
8. Well at Washington market, at Washington-street, between Vesey and Fulton, reached 
the rock at seventy feet. 
9. Well at the corner of Factory and Perry streets.; shaft seventy feet to the rock, and 
one hundred and thirty feet in rock. 
10. On the same track, near 16th-street, the shaft twenty feet to the rock, and one hundred 
feet in rock. 
11. Allaire’s, Cherry-street at Corlear’s hook, eighty feet in drift without reaching rock. 
12. Well at the corner of 5th-street and Avenue D, shaft sunk to the rock at the depth of 
one hundred and nine feet. 
13. Dry dock shaft one hundred and thirty feet to the rock, and then bored two hundred 
feet in the rock. 
14. At the dairy establishment at Hoboken, four hundred feet; reached rock at forty feet; 
serpentine sandstone, and supposed white marble. 
