New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-10

the action vigorous enough 10 bring up the sednsn1
from the bottom and 10 oiterate the geological rove
ations OF The drill that FROM thls point nothing could b
Ie te on 81 'h9 rock was broken, ans the water css
degrees Fahrenheit, aud flows through an oTiass Il
inches in diameter 100000 gallons every u hours.
Il very clear is pronounced entirely free from animal
and vegetable matter, and nearly free from minerA
traces be for all domestic practically pure
ter-the orthodox protoxide Of hydrogen.
As soon the drill had been withdraw, four iaeh
pipe was driven down 20 feet 20 the band Of marble 10
Il now carried 25 feet upward, and from its ten
the water flows into Gurne through which II is carried
to Wheel 20 feet in diameter and drives drills thaA
are boring other wells near by The fow being Uniform
aud constant the propreto have at length the long
sought Perpetual Motion. N = ItlEf0
THB SECOND WE'LL. ..
On the sth Of May 1865, second well commenced.
The medium" located the drill feet from the finished
we'll and it went down steadily until the irs day of The
broken GA feet and inches below the surface, and
another wonderful volume of water rushed up. fhs 6ov
Is fortunately entirely free from odor Of sulphW
in the first we'll resulting from leakage Of suphurets1
hydrogen gas into the BORE about half way down, s
The experience OF tue enerprsing propneors OF thce
wells has shown that it is OF first importance in boring
for artesan well TO get perfectly true, round vol;
this secured all else is comparatively easy. Alo, that No
sincIe tool whatever be its shape whether H. H. or Star
WILL at one cutting, make tIie we IL will only worn
hole in the earth, like augur or a eorkscrew
The second well is true Us gun-barrel ana perfecuy
round tool-grab 10 feet long, and trh5n quarter
an inch Of the size Of the reH was introduced and -
sceHded $40 feet IA minute by the watch without jar
The boring of these wells has brought 10 light some new
facts, which 70 be with principles hereto
fore accepted.
The site of the wells is on prairie of several hundrsa
miles in width, far from either hill valley. Lake S.
pcror 300 miles distant has level OF but 80 feet aboyo
that OF Lake Michigan and there Intervening higA-
lands. Ten miles of Chicago Is ridge called tks
"Summit the elevation Of which IS about 70 feet above
the level Of Lake Michigan This ridge divides the waters
empty into the Gull Of Mexico As the water from these
wells has head of about l25 feet above Lake Michigss
and SO feet above Lake Superior we must look to sos
very remote point for its fountain head.
Ii is also an extraordinary fact that the temperature a
the water although free from fluctuations is steadily
falling The first that 20 the surface had temPen.
ture OF nearly So 4. After 2OO,0OO000 gallons h.
been discharged, the temperature had fallen TO 81 snA
has been steadily falling since.
There is seemingly other solution for this than Ne
hypothesis that the fountain head IS far TO the North, sAa
that tho outflow has drawn supplies SO rapidly from as
fountain or from its neghborhOod, that the tam
perature has not fallen so much in transit
UTILIZING THE WELLS.
Another well is 10 be bored Is 10 20 inches in diames9
the discharge of which will be- if the ratio il maintane4
at the rate Of 900 l5 900 gallons daily Tbs
volume viii be sufficient TO supply all the city reservon
and Will quite supecede the two-Tle tunnel nnder tns
lake large ice-pond is 20 be dug and Hooded, az
from so 10 IS tuns really pure ice 70 be stores
each Winter During the summer the pond wiz Dc
beautiful lake In the midst Of park OF 40 acres laid one
with care and abundanty shaded and ornamented. "
also proposed to substantial hollow shaft 100 tsse
high from the top Of which water-power may be M.
nshed neghbong factories at reasonable figure 80
| get q handsome profit.
OTHER WELLS
The relative rank of the Chicago wells may be noted n
COMPARISON with the most celebrated wells in the world
l. The Grcnelle we'll at Paris is 800 feet flows 900 90
gallons in "a hours temperature 81 F. salt and uss4
| only 10 heat hospitals
= The Wen of Passy in the same basin and about the
same depth il the largest in the world, being feet b
diameter and discharging $3.50, 900 gallons daily.
g. The Belcher WELL St. Louis, 1879 feet doep, aad
discharges rs gallons per minute. l0S0OO daily; tam
perature 73 F.; highly mpregnated with mineral ssh.
stances and has a strong odor useful incidentally only
IT,, L; uroI Rovar ia feat
depth and inches in diameter temperature CO. b.. do
charges go gallons per minute, $50 600 per day.
s. The wei of Minden, in Hanover Is nearly 900 fese
Deep The rise is but Is feet above the surface and ss
flavor saline.
s. = Two wells at Charleston, s. c. each go fess
deep discharge 1900 gallons per hour, or 500 dany.
| Temperature, 81 f. salt.
8 The well at Jackson Mich is than 600 fsse
deep but no has been found and the work 10 nov
O. There is one at Columbus Ohio about 900 feet hsA
| of not much value.