Springfield Weekly Republican

An important Patent Is just Issued to Col. Green of driven-well fame, which promises to do for cities and towns what the driven well has for houses and factories, in revolutionizing their water-supply systems. The patent consists in one or more series of driven-well combinations, a common suction pipe connecting the well-tops and ending in a suction-pump which, it is claimed, will furnish a liberal supply of water for public use. The working of the pump brings into the wells subterranean water deposits, thus making them a substitute for a reservoir and eradicating local impurities. The invention is founded on several discoveries, resulting from recent experiments at Holyoke, and the advantages claimed are the best possible fire service, and a continuous and abundant supply of absolutely pure water at a small cost. The discoveries suggesting the patent were, that continuous pumping purifies objectionable water, and that a simple gang of the driven wells can be made a substitute, and more than an equivalent for a reservoir, avoiding expensive embankments, conduits and land damages, and all the risks incidental to inclosed surface-waters. The inventor in a coming article in the Popular Science Monthly, describes at length the discovery of a new force, by which the water is urged to the pump, and which causes the overflow of springs from mountain tops and overflowing wells. The gist of the enunciation is that all bodies of water confined in the earth are acted upon by the resultant of centrifugal and centripetal forces, which maintains a constant pressure more or less toward the earth's surface. By the introduction of the driven well an outlet is afforded, and a constant stream is guaranteed. The phenomena of the geysers and all the springs are considered due to this resultant.