Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-01

any use for. The well was bored this sum.
mer. To supply good water to the house,
I have perforated the outer pipe, and lead
water rising from the upper stratum in
pipes to different parts of the garden and
to the house. The water now in the reser-
voir is a mixture of the water from both
strata" MIR. Salmon is as yet the only
one who possesses sn artesian well of such
wonderful qualities. yet there is no reason
to believe that others cannot be sunk with
equal success. The flow of the well,
when examined on December 9, 1888, was
l9l gallons per minute. The water from
the stratum az $50 feet contains much
alkaline matter it is very brackish to the
teste No analysis of the water has yet
been made, nor of the gas, which rises
from point nearly one. quarter of mile
below the surface OF the ground 1t is
probable that the gas is composed of light
varieties of carburetted hydrogen, free
from sulphur compounds and other impuri-
ties. The temperature of the water is so
degrees Fahrenheit.
DESCRIPTION OF OTHER WELLS.
Though other artesian wells near Stock
ton do not supply their owners with gas as
well as water, still each one Is valued at
thousands of dollars. Their number is fast
increasing. The Stockton water works
supply the city of Stockton with water
drawn from three artesian wells. One of
these is in the Court. house Park, one at the
water works, 300 feet further south, and
the third is near the County Hospital, at
the eastern limit of the city. Four years
ago, at a depth of 900 feet, good flow OF
water was obtained three miles southeast
of Stockton, on the Nightingale ranch of
Geo. S. Ladd. DR.. Graf ian has an artesian
we'll recently sunk, four miles east of
in Stockton a well was bored this year, and
has oopious flow. On the Moss ranch,
four miles south of Stockton, Just west of
the French Camp Toll Road is an artesian
well which has flow of $50 gallons per
minute ESTIMATED on December 9, 1889,
It's water, unlike that of the ether wells
enumerated, is alkaline and rich in iron
salts. The water of all the flowing wells
near Stockton is warm. Its temperature is
generally about So Fair. The depth of
the wells is about 1000 feet at Stockton,
and somewhat less at the points east of the
city.
WELLS AT OTHER POINTS.
About seven miles south of Ceres, and
three or four miles east of the San Joaquin
river, is an artesisn well reported to have
a flow of l20 gallons per minute. At
Crows Landing, on the San Joaquin river,
southwest of Turlock, is well recently
constructed, which is 500 feet deep, and is
reported as having copious flow. On the
Chowchilla ranch, fifteen to twenty miles
south of Merced, are large number of
flowing wells. Most of them have flow
of less than 40 gallons per minute, but
there are some--as, for instance, the Ken.
lucky well, with its flow of nearly 200 gal.
Ions per minute-which far exceed that
amount. The water flowing from this
group OF wells comes from depth of l75
to $40 feet. In James D. Schuzler's report
to the State Engineer, in 1850, appears the
following: ga we'll some three miles west
of the Chowchilla ranch, and two miles
east of the river, belonging to an individual
land owner. is one of the strongest in that
section. 1t was bored in January, 1873,
is 297 feet deep, and cost S457. 1t passes
through the following strata, memo
randum of which is given to illustrate the
geological formation OF that portion of the
valley;