38 
ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. 
[BULL. 138. 
NEW YORK CITY. 
There are many deep wells on New York island which yield large 
volumes of water, but it appears that the greater part of the water con- 
tains either mineral or surface contaminations which greatly diminish 
its usefulness. The deep wells are in the granite-gneiss, mica-schist, 
or limestone, which are near the surface north of Fortieth street, but 
southward are more or less deeply buried beneath sands and clays of 
Pleistocene age. There are also many wells 20 to 80 feet deep in the 
superficial beds. Nearly all the data I have for the New York City 
wells were obtained through the kindness of Mr. W, d'H. Washington, 
of New York, who has sunk many of these wells. All those of which 
I have learned are listed in the following table : 
List of wells in New York City. 
Location. 
Depth. 
Size. 
Capacity 
per 
minute. 
Eemarks. 
Feet. 
Inches. 
Gallons. 
+1,000 
Many. 
Manhattan Life Insurance Co 
760 
8 
100 
720 
500 
80 
626 

Rock at 126 feet. 
48 
Broadway and Houston streets 
42i 
2,600 
448 
45 
7 
80 
42 feet to rock. 
700 
8 
80 
500 
6 
600 
50 
6-4 
500 
West Eleventh and Greenwich streets 
1,047 
8 
10 
Eock at 40 feet. 
Twenty-eighth street near Broadway 
500 
8 
100 
Forty-seventh street and Fourth avenue 
+ 600 
8 
100 
700 
8 
100 
Dakota fiats, Seventy-second street and Eighth avenue. 
1,200 
8 
8 
Hotel Savoy, Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue 
500 
80 
300 
306 
8 
25 
40 
Manhattan Athletic Club, Madison avenue and Fourth 
Flows. 
street. 
Ringler brewery, Ninety-second street and Third ave- 
685 
9 
300 
nue. 
One hundred and sixteenth street and First avenue 
40-50 
600 
(3 wells). 
Mount Morris Park 
90 
Many. 
Onehundred and twenty-fifth street and Sixth avenue. . 
45 
Many. 
One hundred and fifty-fifth street and Seventh ave- 
50-60 
450 
nue (12 wells). 
One hundred and Forty-fifth street and Eighth avenue. 
1,045 
120 
Fine water. 
One hundred and twenty-eighth street and Tenth 
605 
10-8 
avenue. 
