Water Lifted By Compressed Air
For Municipal, Manufacturing, Irrigation or Other Water Supply

i hey should be scattered and pumped moderately, maintaining a low and economical lift. In other cases, one well in a group will give as inuch water as all together, and more territory must be drawn on. 1 his introduces difficulties in detached pumping units and labor cost which are well met with the Air Lift, as an economical central air compressor can be put in at the main pumping station and operated by the usual engineering force and the air piped to any distance or in different directions, and to any number of wells, no matter how scat- tered. In this way the entire corporation area is available for a supply. Air transmission is safe and clean; it is simple and easily controlled. There is little or no wear, and, once adjusted, the wells need no attention for years, the control resting in the speed main- tained at the central station. Uses for the Air Lift. City and town water works, asylums and hospitals, plantations railway water tanks, irrigation, private country houses, pumping mines, ice manufactories, breweries, cold storage and packing houses, textile mills, dye works, bleacheries, sewerage installations, dry docks seaside water works, stock farms, etc. In fact, anywhere and everywhere that clear and abundant water is needed. Water Discharge from Air Lift Wells at Houston, Texas. 11