The Morning herald., 1875-08-26
The Artesi0n Well.
WHY THEY rIDN'T STRIKE WATER.


Max Adeler has the following: They
have been boring an Artesian well out at
the iron foundry. and for some time the
work seemed to 60 along very nicely. The
boring was done with a two-inch auger
fixed in the end Of IN iron rod, which was
twisted around by 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 loose 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 fur
ther, and one day, just as they were begin
nidg on another hundred. there was an ex-
citement in at Murphy's.
Murphy lives next door to the foundry
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 bnrNpShg aif II The ground.
Murphy concluded that it must be either a
potato bug or grasshopper that had beel
ha,ched in the spring, and he took out a
bottle Of bug-poisou to drop on it when i,
came up. When Murphy reached the spot
there certainly was some Kind Of a creature
slowly pushing its way up through the sod
Its nose. seemed to resemble q sharp point
like steel. Murphy dropped some poison
on it. but it didn't appear to mind the stuff
but kept slowly creeping up from the
ground. Then Murphy felt it, and was as
tonished to find that it felt exactly like the
end Of a fork, prong. He sent the boy il
to call Perkins and the rest Of the neigh.
bors. Pretty soon a large crowd collected
and bv this time the animal had emere ed
to the extern of couple Of inches.
Everybody was amazed to see that il
looked exactly like the end Of a large au.
ger, and two or three timid men were sc
scared at the idea Of such thing actually
growing out OF the earth that they suddenly
20. over the fence and left Perkins couldna
account Tor it, but he suggested that maybe
somebody might have planted a ginle
there, and it baI taken root and ,blossomet
out into an auger but he admitted that h,
never heard ofsscl. , thing before.
~Murphy said il that Kind OF thing woult
work, he probably might go into the h,si
ness regularly, aud raise axes by planting
hatche,s, and guns by sowing pistols. tn,
excitement increased, SO that the men VIII,
wer. boring The Ar,esian Well knocked of
and came over to see the phenomenon. ]
zsnotieed that ~ so9n ras they stoppet
work the auger ceased to grow, and wher
tkev arrived they looked at it for minute
and bi,e of them said: "a EGoY V.El
sBilledo YOU recognize chat anger ~
Il think do" said Bill.
i "Well, Bill, YOU 60 and unhitch thai
wheel from the other end Of the rod"
| Bill did 40; and then the other mar
asked the crowd to take hold of the augel
| and p6Il.,vI They did, aid out came ,f6ul
hundred aHd filty 'fees ,o5f iron la. Ina
auger had slid off 10 the side, turned up
xsrl, apl sape n We surface u, MgIpby'
gSkdsge Then the AteSan 1e'lASfsabaR
donel, and Brown, the foundry man, bough
a steam pump ard began to get water from
the river. '.' -