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Show ' Exploding for Water. The practice of American oil well sinkers of firing the torpedo to start a dry or increase the flow of a sluggish well lias been taken advantage of in England Eng-land successfully in the case of water. At the Herne Bay Water works a well bored into the chalk 5T8 feet deep from tho surface yielded little or no water, i and upon the advice of Messrs. John 1 Taylor & Sons two charges of roburite 1 were fired the first consisting of twen- j ty-seven pounds of the explosive placed at the bottom of the bore hole, and the second of twenty-five pounds at fifty feet above the former. The second shot had the desired result, and produced a vol- f uine of water estimated at 50,000 gallons a day, which rose to the top of the well. New Orleans Picayune. |