Well Sinking

Technical factors include a dry-season watertable within the suction limit, a suitable aquifer at depth reachable by low-cost well-sinking methods, and sufficient recharge. ❋ Unknown (1995)

It was, as one might imagine, the strangest experience of my very varied life which has included well-sinking in every continent upon earth. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1968)

They did all kinds of men's work by preference, including well-sinking, hedging, ditching, and excavating, without any sense of fatigue. ❋ Unknown (1891)

We had ample opportunity to watch them at night, as our well-sinking operations kept us up. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)

'Joe as usual is foremost at all work; fencing, well-sinking, And he proves the truth of the old saying, that "the head does not suffer by the work of the hand." ❋ Yonge, Charlotte M (1873)

During the mining-operations, the game is laid somewhere high up, out of reach of the Ants, on some tuft of grass, or the twigs of a shrub, whither the huntress, from time to time, stopping her well-sinking, hastens to see if her quarry is still there. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Augusta, I heard that a Mr. Moseley was out somewhere to the west of the Elizabeth, well-sinking, on a piece of country he had lately taken up, and that he was camped at or near some rain-water. ❋ Ernest Giles (1866)

Their expertness in all sorts of earthwork, in embanking, boring, and well-sinking — their practical knowledge of the nature of soils and rocks, the tenacity of clays, and the porosity of certain stratifications — were very great; and, rough-looking though they were, many of them were as important in their own department as the contractor or the engineer. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Whether the scheme would be worth the expenditure necessary to equip a really serviceable well-sinking party I am unable to judge; but it seems to me that it would be a tremendous advantage to Central Australian cattle owners to be able to drive their bullocks direct to the West Australian goldfields, even though they could only do so in the winter, at which season alone it is probable that the feed would be sufficiently good. ❋ David Wynford Carnegie (1885)