The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-04-27
The Chicago ArteSian Well.
Tothe Edltor IF TIE Chicago Fee Joura

Iothe Edftor IF TIE Chicago Fee Journal
You have been kind enough to frequently
mention this work in your paper, and hence
| infer that few facts in regard TO it NAV
not be devoid of public interest. lie
present well, flowing water, is seven hun
dred aud eleven and one-half feet in depth
1t is hive inches in diameter at the surface,
reduced to four and one eighth inches at the
bottom, where the water was reached. The
upper strata Of rock is IA loose, seamy, lime.
stone, and the well is tubed through this
strata, for forty five feet, with fOur-inch
(35 Insrie) arteslaD tubing, with smooth
JOINTS Inside aud out. THIS tube is carried
twenty-five feet above the surface, where
1t discharges into the hume which carries
the water Oh the wheel. This Wheel TWEEN
~ feet III diameter, is used to drive the
drills and mac il ely for tie new wells
which are now under way. One of these
wells VIII, when completed be fifteen inches
IN diameter, and will discharge, per day,
ten millions five hundred thousand gallons
OF water. 1t is Eot easy to comprehend the
magnitude OF Il we'll OF this size, and
while 1t IS perfectly simple to put it on pa
per, and talk OF a fifteen inch well, vet to
sink it i'll the rock for seven hundred feet is
quite another thing; hu we believe that it
can and will be done sud when this i'm
mense column of water is seen rising above
the surface for eighty feet. it will IL, one of
the wonders of Chicago, and further it will
be one of the wonders of the world, for
there is 10 we'll Of this size now known.
The mode of boring this III will he this:
First. to drill five mel, well through to
how at. 4
making the hole ten inches; then, again, to
rim 1t ont to fifteen Understanding three
operations, III the second and third of which
the water will carry up all the debris. and
save the necessity of sand pump to get
out the sediment
In boring the first we'll, we use five
inch solid clisei-dril in trimming we shall
use what is called made up tooI-that is
constructed OF several parts, guide, drill,
stem and cutters, banded together 1t is
contended by SEINE that such tool cannot
he used successfully, but that the well
should be drilled to the size designed with
IA slug lie solid drill. We shall at fist test
the made up tool.
The first forty feet of this well will be
| trimmed out to seventeen inches in diameter
Tor the purpose Of inserting castiron pipe
through the sealny rock, TO prevent the IS
cape Of the water On this pipe a column
viii be erected, above the surface, as high
as the head OF the water, when it will be
rea y for such purposes as may be required.
ilie water from this we'll is remarkably
sweet, clear and pure. 1t is filtered
through the sandstones and grlveheds OF
earth, medicated by contact with its salts
aud minerals, and seems to come just fitted
tor use, and with power sufficient to
elevate it to any part Of our city Taking
all 'se thugs into consideration Nature
appears to indicate this as tie simplest man
ner OF supplying this growing city with
the best and ilealthiest Of water. and in the
cheapest aud most efficient manner
Should our Commissions lie correct in thi.
matter, there will he no necessity for tho
expensive tuun'l, nor the elaborate system
oi steam pumps aud engines The ter
lire.l'iy filtered and purified, win hoo
naturally and freely into the reservoirs, anC