F. C. Austin Manufacturing Company

PURE WATER. The inestimable valué of pare water has alwaysbeen recoguued by mankiud. and the necessity of sinking wella has occupied the attention of alt nations and countries since the world beaan. It s. however, only wltfain a few yeara that the nick-and-shovel method of the past, whick was only possible where the conditiona were favorable, gave way to the enlightened proceas of the present which defies alike the hardest rock and most treacherous quicksand. For the benefit of our readers who are interested in boring for water, gas, 011, or coal, we illustrate in this issue a No. 2 Austin Well Machine, tnounted on wheels with derruk raised. The F. C. Austin Manufactunng Company, of Chicaeo 111 are the manufacturera of this machine, as well as of the most complete line of well sinking and portable rock drilling machinery in the world. Thm company have been in the business of supplying well apphances for nearly half a century and while the management has changed, the Austin name has al way a ben iirominently identifled with it. The beginning was moderate and the business has erown from a jobbing firm, occupying a store 150x50, to a manufactnnng establishment second to none in its line in the country. The company have followed the Star of Empire on its journey westward until their name and fame are known wberever wells are made and pumps set. They recogmzed at an early date the fact that shallow wells taking surface water, must soon give out; particularly in the west where the surface water finds a ready escape into ïrngating canals and ditches, as well as into the natural waterways. They anticipated the fact that to obtain pure water the earth must be probed and that, with the rapid settlement of the country, a process must be devised that would not only go deep butalsogo sure. To this end they have adopted the most ingenious methods known to modern science and have fully protected them by Letters Patent wnich they own or control. They make no claims to the miraculous but they guarantee thofr tnanhinftpv to iret water wherever it is a human possibility, and the word fail ie not in the lexicon of the