| Show THE CITY WATER WELL they are still drilling atthe at the city water well on the reservoir site gite they are at this writing to a depth of feet and the drillars drillers dr illers say they are in the same formation as at the galloway and searles artesian wells it is a hard sand stone and there is every indication of striking an artesian flow within the next hundred feet they struck a good flow of water at a depth of feet and if they should not happen to strike an artesian flow within tho the next feet the well will be cased sed and used as a the geological survey says the following concertin con concerning cernin pure drinking water it is generally recognized that a number of diseases prominent among which are typhoid fever lever and amoebic dysentery disease more mora common in tropical climates but found also in the united states are contracted through contaminated water or contaminated food therefore a supply of pure water will eliminate one of the sources of such infection it is highly desirable to obtain supplies of domestic orestie water from sources other than the shallow wells some of them open that pre are found near many houses the water obtained from deep wells has percolated through sands and other material for so great a distance that its impurities have been removed by filtration and it possesses a sanitary value that can not well be overestimated for such water is fr free e e from t the he bacate bacteria ri a musing causing typhoid fever and the protozoa causing amoebic dysentery and its use obviates the necessity for shallow wells that my may serve e as a breeding place for anopheles the mosquito mos auito to which 1 ell mI malarial arial infections e chions is duo due |
