Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-03-29

A GREAT NATURAL CURIOSITY.
A late NUMBER II thG Dayton como Tran.
script mentions Il discovery " q most sipgu
laf and ezira0 dlDaty character which is 10 be
seen 10 Delaware county, 10 Ohio, about ssv.
snleen uilss nUftft OF Columbus. the seat Ul
Government. Tho Transcript remarks that
although It il 0ne Of ths most novel and cue
rlOus 'bings 10 natural history, yet II has uey.
or been ibade puUltC " beeu known 10 lbs
scientific world. Il has hsfetof0fe e1iirels
seCapsd lie Hetice OF scientific men, from The
Hel Of ~ icing ~ an obscure place, and 90
ICcOunt ii It having ever been gwen 10 tbs
ppDjr prints, The Transcript says
"3DIng lime about The year 1878 tw0 meI
by tbs names ol Davis aud Richards, sal
boilers by pro- esstDH, commenced b0fluE TO-
salt Watef IA The bed Of the 81 i6t0 river, nest
ths place mentioned. After having bored a.
bout lily feet through o solid rock, hey came
upon Il stream Of white sulphur water Of he
strongest kind The auger with which they
were boring suddenly sunk something lkt
Two feet, nlCi Is probably the depth 81 The
stream , but such was the pressure Ufthe wa
or that the suger Was forced up sgalD, AID
urge weights lad ~ be attached 10 IL III Or.
der 10 keep i 10 lis place and enable them t.
bore further. They continued 10 bore %,
now0Yef, until hey rot about four hundred
feet Mellow The sulphur stream, Wien they
struck upoil salt wa,er. The slze VI The Att
eer was about tWO add-aha1f inches III diane.
ter. Wien they took it out, the jet Of sulphur
water ross up u the height oftwenty feet h.
9pvs The surface 0f lie water
ln oder ~ obtain access 10 tho salt water
tH-.t tt..a t,4u,.,xI q atlax u.a#.. 49,,
and attempted 10 rec IL down 10 the pias :
ahere II was to be found Eut whenever il
reached he sulphur stream, such was is lOlcc
q d ptefsure tbat tie Up; was comp!e G )
datlcned 20 as etltejy 10 picrent the passage
ii water Though il. All subsequent attempt
10 insert i pipe proved a~bertlyr, and alter ptu.
-ecutlDg tie wDtk at intervals for seveta
ears, the project was entirely abandoned.
After cnlargiBg the oriico made by tie au.
ger 1T tie Top, . wooden stock, twenty icet 10
1flgbt, WAS inserted yet, even at thg top o.
hia, such a. he force OF The stream lhai 81
equirfd the alfeGgth If two or three fGe3. Il
put a plug 10 It.. From this stock u ptpe con
scys lie water 10 a spfing. house OF oIo Of
the bluff banks Of the river. IAe stream ias
0ecn running for t~werty-gix years, yet IT,
strength and force are undated. Those i b.
have recently examined il say that it is capa.
lie Of throwing up a stream ten thes jnd s.
ameter from eighty TO ninety ieet htgl, No
bat water can thus be Obtained to turn a
large mil.
"ihe whole matter lay in obscuriiy until 4
short tine since, when our fellow citizen, Mr.
N Hart, accidentally heard Of the CIR um.
stance, and bought the land upon which 1t was
.ifuated. It was from him that VI learned
he foregoing facts. The stream furnishes ~
good ahi'e sulphur as il nov known. II il
strongly ~impregnated with gas, and possesses
valuable medicinal properties. The place 10
which il is situated is in a fine healthy re.
gion, and the country round about is beantifn.
and rolling, and admirably adapted 10 fish,
ing and hunting"