Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
The Artesian We'll.

Max Adeler has the following They have been boring an artesian we'll out at the iron foundery, and for some time the work seemed to go along very nicely. The boring was done with two inch which was twisted around by a wheel worked by two men. One day, after they had gone down good many feet, they tried to pull the rod out, but it would not come. They were afraid to use much force lest the auger should come off and stay in the hole, and so as the boring went along we'll enough they concluded to keep on turning, and to trust to the force of the water, when they struck it, to drive the lose dirt up from the hole. When they had gone down about three hundred and fifty feet, they began to think it queer that there were no signs of water but they bored hundred feet further, and one day, just as they were beginning on an- other hundred, there was an excitement in at Murphy's. -.,t .'a F .HH ..... Murphy lives next door to the foun- dery, and on the day in question his boy came running into the house and told him to come into the garden quick, for there was some kind of an extraordinary animal with sharp nose burrowing out of the ground. Murphy concluded that 1t must be either a potato bug or 8 grasshopper that had been hatched' in the spring, and he took out bottle of bug poison to drop on it when it came up. When Murphy reached the spot, there certainly was some kind of 8 crea- ture slowly pushing it's way up through the sod. Its nose seemed to resemble 8 sharp point like steel. Murphy dropped some poison on it, but 1t did not appear to mind the stuff, but kept slowly creep ing up from the ground. Then Murphy felt it, and was astonished to find that it felt exactly like the end of fork prong. He sent the boy in to call Perkins and the rest of the neighbors. Pretty soon large crowd collected, and by this time the animal had emerged to the extent of couple of inches. IL . s..': '. l. Everybody was amazed to see that, it looked exactly like. the end of large auger, and two or, three timid men were so scared at the idea of such thing &C., tually growing out of the earth that they suddenly got over the fence and left. Perkins couldn't account for it, but he suggested that maybe somebody might
 
 taken root and blossomed out into an auger; but he admitted that he never heard of such 8 thing before. .:. .
 Murphy said if that kind of thing would work, he probably might go into the business regularly, and raise axes by planting hatchets, and guns by sowing pistols. The excitement increased so that the men who were boring the arte- sian well knocked off and came over to see the phenomenon. It was noticed that as soon as they stopped work the auger ceased to grow, and when they arrived they looked at it for minute, and one of them said: -#,t .-....l
 Bill, do you recognize that auger 9'' "I think I do," said Bill. r "Well, Bill, you go and unhitch that wheel from the other end of the rod.'
 Bill did so !; and then the other man asked the crowd to take hold of the auger and pull. They did and out came l four hundred and fifty feet of iron rod. That auger had slid off to the side and turned upward, and come to the surface in Murphy's garden. Then the artesian well was abandoned, and Brown, the foundery man, bought steam pump and began to get water from the river.