ARTESIAN WELLS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 200, 5 August 1874, Page 3

ARTESIAN WELLS.

TO THE EDITOK. Sib, —I should bo glad if you would, through the medium ofynnr columns, advocate the necessity of supplying ti.e town of Tauranga with water. A plenfiful and cheap supply of pure water is one of the great essentials in any town ; and it is too well known to all, to need comment from me, the variety of nuisances and disease engendering plague-spots that exist even in small communities where the sunply of water is either limited or expensive. We tire geographically so favourably situated as to render it almost a-certainty that an unlimited supply of the purest water ean be obtained at a comparatively small coat: £<ying as Tauranga does, at the lowest level of a large baain, with a crescent of hills—almost mountains —around it, it is the very spot that would be selected by a practical man as the roost eligible for Artesian Wells. The plant necessary for driving the pipes is inexpensive; and should any individual succeed in one undertaking of the kind, he would find it a source of revenue for a long time to come, as outside of the requirements of the town, there are numbers of small paddoek3 without water, the value thereof much diminished in consequence, as they entail considerable expense in driving cattle to water or carting water to cattle, the owners of which would gladly sink such well were they assured of success. Even where ordinary wells are sunk, it is requisite that, valuable time be lost in daily drawing the water and filling cisterns. Artesian Wei! in such eases would increase the value of the property very considerably. Should there be no individual in our community willing to undertake the risk of sinking the first well, I think a subscription might be raised amongst those interested, and a certain sum guaranteed to any one making the attempt in ease it proved a failure; always provided that a reasonable effort had been made, and the work not abandoned until hope of success lost. I have lately been gathering all the information I could in a district where Artesian wells are almost the only source of water supply, and I find that the cost per well, including piping, varies from thirty la one hundred and fifty pounds, according to the depth at. which the'spring is tapped, and the nature of the strata through which the pipes are driven. Any further information that I ean afford will be given with pleasure, should this aubjeet be taken up with a view to its application here. Settubbu Tauranga, July 31st, 1874.