The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-16
CHARLOTTE HARBOR.
Fine Water at Punta Gorda-FIorida
Southern Weather Report.
PUNTA GoRDA, Sept. 1e

Southern Wharf-Weather Report.
PUNTA GoRDA, Sept. 10.
Special dependence Tho Daily News:
The artesIan well has settled the great
question as to water at this point. A
clear, sparkling stream, slightly sulphur,
flows sixty gallons to the minute. The
water comes from two hundred and
thirty feet below. In this desert. as the
Tampa Tribune calls it, rod struck n
rock-behold the life -giving water,
QUITE A CoINCIDENT.
In boring, Mr.. Lockwood, the contrac-
tor, dreamed that the casing in the well
was one hundred and forty feet deep.
You remember they use iron casing I'M
til rock is struck. BY chance, the cas-
forty feet.
SOMETHING FOR THE GEoLoGIST.
At one hundred and thirty.six feet
sandstone rock was found, extending for
siXty-si feet to "A depth of two hundred
and two feet below the surface, then
Soapstone to two hundred and twenty
four below the surface. Beneath this
quartz rock was found. Hammering
sprung, of the size which surprises our
Moses in this 'desert"-not Moses, but
those who We're grumbling. Well. this
rock was not struck for the grumblers of
rival towns.
THE PALATKA WELLS.
In this connection it may be well to
draw comparison, from geological
point of view, between this point and
Palatka. Mr.. Lock wood tells me that at
sixty feet below the surface sandstone is
generally found, extending to depth of
from seventy to a hundred and twenty
feet below the surface. Then "A stratum
of soapstone ten or fifteen feet thick.
Beneath this generally lies the hard rock
quartz. Ii will be observed that the
thickness of sandstone and other LAYERS,
correspond with those around Palatka,
the sand here being somewha deeper.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The passenger wharf is nearing com
pletIon. Next week the steamer Alice
Howard, for Fort Myers, will touch at
the wharf. This wharf makes a nice
promenade. The deDot is about finished.
Dlr. j Woliskey, of Whitehall, 5. G.,
has opened a general merchandise store.
lie Is also building boarding house.
have heard of numerous boarding houses
to go up.
The talk of the big hotel will soon de
velop into something more substantial.
As yet, everybody who has come here
contemplate the fish business. the board
ing house business or the mercantile bus
mess. There is still lots of room for
such ventures.
L have heard that if you lock up two
Jews In "A room for two months, that
they would both get rich swapping
shirts. Any how, two are now trying it
here on a somewhat larger scale.
THE WEATHER REPORT.
During the months of July and Au-
gust have kept the records of the Their
mometer. The thermometer was swung
up TO pole in my tent, right on the
banks of the harbor. No thermometer
ever approXimates the correct temper
allure, in n low latitude where the wind
blows as it does here. Blowing upon IA
body" the evaporation of the natural
moisture causes cold. Upon the Their
mometer there is no such moisture. con-
sequently no such evaporation. 1t is
therefore cooler in windy country in
summer than in a country showing the
same thermometer readings where there
are no such breeZes. For instance, note
the average readings for July: