The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-09-13


Cant dig one, have tried several nj
failed every time"
= :" "What's the trouble?" asked the strange
.. ''can't you find water"
:, "Water, yes, plenty Of it, and only
" short distance down, but it's all mineral,
answered Jones.
- 81 see," said the stranger, musing, q
~ this is mineral locality, and the veins in
; pregnated with mineral are SO strong thi
10 they fill the well and stop the work befoi
the fresh water veins can be reached.
Il this not the case?"
+ That's about it, recon, y replied Chinny
q though there is A mighty fine well up o
/ the rise there in the edge of that garden
o and only thirty feet deep either. used t.
O get all my water there, but the man VIII
I owns it is a drinking man, lenstways h
sells heap of whisky, and | amt no us
r for man that handles the plague take i
/ stuff"
q 'I have we'll to sell, which 1 am SURF
5 would suit you,' said the stranger, appa
q rently not needing the last remarks o.
, Jones.
| "a we'll to sell How's that p asked
Jones, exhibiting surprise. ''Why never
heard of such thing as a man selling
wells"
''No, suppose not" said the stranger,
laughing, "but nevertheless It's true, and |
carry them around with me in this wagon.
They are known as the drive we'll all
have to do is to screw on steel point and
drive it into the ground, screw on another
length of pipe and drive that down, and 80
on until water is reached when attach a
pump and bring it to the surface. Another
advantage this well has over all others is,
that in a mineral country like this, you can
sample all the different water as you go
down. For instance, might go down, say
ten feet and strike wafer of an alkaline
nature, and aJter driving through, perhaps
would come to vein of sulphur water;
then, as is frequently the case, we drive
through that and come 10 fine flow of pure
fresh water, and l have often driven through
that merely for experiment sake, and strike
a vein of effervessing water of a mineral
nature, containing all the medicinal virtues
known to the medical profession, and =
LOOK here, stranger" interrupted Chin
ny, who had become interested in the subs
ject, "What do you charge for one of them
wells p
II drive them by the foot, answered the
stranger, sat the small sum of one dollar
per foot, with an extra charge of five dol
lars for point that is, we will say, drive
we'll for you and come to water at twenty
feet, your well would cost you twenty five
dollars, and your pump, which is Grays |
improved, with double back action and side
stops, and Anderson's celebrated attach
ment with combination litter, steel rod, and
diamond pointed chronometer balance
nickle plat. valves, will only cost you tif-
teen dollars more-making your whole out
fit only cost you the small sum of forty
dollars Now, who in the name of wonder
would be without well for double that
price, and have to haul water, as you do?
Besides, with one of my wells you never
have to new curb it, nor do you have to
wear yourself out turning an old windlass
and very frequently we drive a well and
strike lead from tho fountain head, which
flows constantly. In that case, of course,
a pump is not needed"
'Look here, stranger, supposing you
should happen to strike vein of water
that supplies that well up yonder ~ queried
Chinny.
'In that case, sir,' replied the stranger,
in all probability it " ould, if driven near
% it, and just below, drain it dry" {
Enough said, 1 want well, said Chin 7
ly; "just drive into my yard and put up c
or the night, and in the morning I'll show d
,ou where to drive; durn my skin if I'll
laul any moro water"
Gan right, sir, said the stranger I'm r
ure you'll never regret il" 7
Early next morning, the well driver was !,
t work in Chinny Jones' back yard, near n
he gate leading to Smiths we'll Blow VI
fter blow descended, and steadily but
urely the iron pipe entered the ground. a.
loon came, and twenty feet had been reach G
d. After dinner the work was resumed,
nd when the sun went down, the we'll
river rested for the day. He had sunk q,
orty>six feet of pipe, and ye. no water. e.
81 think will strike it before go much y,
.rther,' said he. Especially if that well
only thirty feet deep, over the fence, and ,
wouldn't be surprised if spoiled his we'll =
II him."
''Bully for you il you do, said Chinny q,
aurn the expense if l can only set him to
luling from the spring, as he did me so ~ -
, ahead old fellow; if you sink her
ousand feet Pm good for it's
Next day at noon, seventy feet had been w
ached without twater. All work had stop u
Jones and the well-driver had gone to ~
nner, when Jink Smith went into his W
rden to reconnoitre through a crack in u u
3 fence, but great was his surprise to find VI
. point of the drove well sticking up ua
out six inches through the soil of his ia
rden, and some ten feet from the fence. Ju'
took in the situation at a glance, foi he 'n'
that when digging his well,
, workmen came across several large sw
ylders, which gave them much trouble ain