Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-12
WATER FOR EVERYBODY.
The New Artesian Well
spouts an Unfailing Sup
ply CT Moisture.
Twelve Hundred Gallons Per Minute
Rushing OUT of the Six
inoh Iron Tube.
. Pressure OF About Two Hun.
dred Pounds to the Square
Tnch--A Mianiture River
Runs Down tue Hill.

IuCil--A MlaulCurS RIVER
Runs Down tue Hill.
There was an interested audience at
the new city artesian we'll last evening
and a small congregation remained until
past the hour of midnight Watching tho
wonderful aqueous exhibition there pro-
vided by Messrs. Karr i Richey, manu-
facturers of moist artesian wells.
sTRUcK A FLOW.
Yesterday afternoon the drill in It's
downward course encountered a soft
sand rock formation and the we'll dr,llers
pulled out the ponderous driver and
pushed the six inch iron casing down
to this rock, giving to the we'll $50 feet
of continuous six inch tubing. After
this was accomplished the drill was
again started and as it entered the porous
sand rock the pipe began to fill with
water. At V o'clock the aqueous
torrent came with a gush and then it
was known that the true vein had been
struck and that the well was a success
The water poured out through the
opening, discharging probably q hun
dred gallons a minute. The drilling was
kept up and rapid progress was made
through the yielding formation below.
The flow rapidly increased as the drill
went down. By nine O'Clock the hole
had been deepened ten feet and water
was rushing from the opening at the rate
of
FOUR HUNDRED GALLONS
per minute By this time the populaoe
had been notified of the extraordinary
success of the we'll makers and came
hocking to the scene in squads. With
their own ears they heard the roaring of
the flood as it sought exit from the pent
up confines of earth and with their own
eyes they saw it boiling and tumbling
out of the opening and they were salts
fed that a flow had been struck. By ten
O'Clock the crowd had diminished to a
few interested spectators and they were
10th to leave the scene. The drill was
pounding Its way downward and the
rush of pure, transparent water was In
creasing as each foot of downward dis
lance was passed. About half-past ten
o'clock, when the drill had sunk probably
twenty-five feet below the bottom of
the casing, and the anxious throng was
mo ri Jtc ovarv cfroko
THE FLOW SUDDENLY DIMINISHED,
the water was changed from transpar-
ency to a muddy hue, vast
quantities of sand poured
over the rim of the
pipe and the flow receded to almost
nothing. Everybody looked at every
body else and only IkeWaterbury spoke.
He said: "Does it do this often?" 1t
was n nav experience and Isaac was
enlightened to that extent. The drill
was quickly withdrawn and all hands
squatted around to await results. Soon
the circle of observers began to widen
The flow was coming back and with it
volumes of pure sand mixed with
chunks of coal and fragments OF clay
and pyrites. By half past eleven a trs-
mendous rush of SAND and water was
pouring out upon the floor of the well
house, threatening to bury every
thing i'll the avalanche. The
wATER sUGED UPWARD
with a roar like that of a young Niagara
auG the spectators drew back in awe
expecting, perhaps, to see the bowels
of the earth flung out upon the hilltop
and an entire geological period scattered
over the surface of the surrounding
prairie.
To keep the we'll from being buried
in the its own product Of sand a piece
of pipe five feet long was screwed 10 the
mouth of the opening and on the top oil
this a solid chunk of water was lifted two
feet into the air, and the force of the
internal rush was increasing. The
supply of sand was also growing less
Along after midnight the late stayers
retired from the scene and only the
workmen remained and they busted
themselves IN turning the released water
down the hillside channel prepared il
advance. Left to itsslf it was running
in all directions from the top of tn.
elevation and threatened the i%nuniatio1
of adjoining gardens.
This morning the watchers of The
night before were early on the scene ant
they were followed by hundreds O
curious people. The flow
A STEADILY INCREASED
during the night and the upright col
umn resting on the top of the five foo
pipe extension was itself five feet il
height before it broke into dashini
showers and descended upon the floor O
the we'll house. There wss in tn
I water only a trace of sand and this i
gradually disappearing. The success c
the well is assured. 1t is there on th
, hill, al aqueous monumeu
oyer the greatest artesia
flow upon the worlds record. There be
yet been no opportunity to measure th
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