Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-15
TESTING The WELL.

After Long and Mereic Struggle will
the Gushing Stream the Require
nents of the City Council 7 Com
piled with-The Water is Sent A!of.
Yesterday forenoon the city coHnci
assembled in official session with til
purpose of taking action relative to Thu
acceptance of the new artesian well from
the contractors, Messrs. Karr Il Richey
While the populace is possessed o
enthusiastic regard for the new spoute'
and firmly believes that lits water!
would climb to the zenith If o ladder
was provided, the council exhibited con,
servatism which left the mercury il
the Official thermometer dowr
among the zsru marks. Before con
senting to declare the well O success
they desired ocular demonstration Of
it's ability to lift TIE water through q
pipe into the top of the reservoir, thirty
two feet upward. AS the calculations OF
mathematicians had already sent the
water column four hundred odd feet
upward, the requirement of the council
seemed an unnecessary one, but the dads
were the bosses and the contractors
made preparations to comply with then
edict during the afternoon of yesterday
In the face of existing evidences
this Official expression Q!
doubt was naturally one which nc
royal stream would tamely brook and
while it dubbed q protest down the hall
sides, at it's source it boiled and strained
aud expanded until between the decision
of the council and the hour for the
experiment, the aqueous column resting
upon the artesian opening had increased
four inches in height, adding proper.
tionately to its lifting strength And
the elements which hold domain in the
upper atmospheric space were also III
wild sympathetic connection. The
thunders roared, the l~ightnings flashed
the rains descended, all OF which con,
spired to delay the test until the day wal
well nigh spent.
Along about fire O'Clock in the after.
noon, while preparations for the tes'
were pending, an alderman appeared
upon the scene and cast his first won
de1ing gaze upon the geyser which
roarei within the vel! house. Standing
cautiously in the doorway in wrapt con
temptation of this freak OF nature, as
sisted by art, a ponderous iron pipe, It'll
ends resting at right angles upon two
other pondeyous iron pipes, was sud
denly released from it's position and i
rolled towards the official inspector d
rectly across the spouting column from
the mouth of the well. The gushing
flow was momentarily diverted from it
perpendicular direction by this move
ment of the iron pipe and a sheet o
solid moisture flew off at q tangent ant
struck the alderman just below hi
breakfast zone. Ii was a dashlng SALUTE
fer which he was quite u~nprepared ant
Mr.. Noonan fell back, under the com
biDed force Of circumstances AM
aqueous pressure, and climbed into hi
buggy and drove home, where he We
passed through a wringsy. Before hi
departure he gave it us his of1icia
opinion that the stuff coming out of th
wall was water and that it possessed
power.
By and by the two contractors and
their three assistants were ready to be
gin operations. They had forty feet o
six inch pipe lying about in sections
their design being to exten
the tubing upward into the air, piece b.
piece, until the top of the adicinin
reservoir was reached. They first entere
the well house with q fragment OF pip
about ten feet long. They said the
were going to screw n end OF this pip
to the pipe from which the artesian SUP
ply was flowing and then upon the othe
end screw another piece, and go o
upward until the desired altitude wa
IShGlCu, Liz ED an OLA SiCSA ~ Al
and there was q considerable crowd
spectators watching them, along wit
Aldermen Branch and Piles. There va
no preliminary skirmishing. The attac
was made in full force and the rount
desperately fought, lasted som
fifteen minutes. At its clos
there were five very wet me
lying about the well hous
In various stages of exhaustio
and on the floor was the ten foot sectio
OF pipe, 1t hadn't been screwed On ye
the combined strength of the men and
block and tackle being insufficient
overcome the force of the water as
rushed upward out of the oriice. The
were unable to hold the open end of tt
pipe down and fit the threads of tt
screws into each other.
After taking q rest another atteml
was made and it ended like the frs
The we'll gushed on with a sullen ROT
and the drenched operators stoo
around and looked as though they didn
know what to do next. But they vel
there to conquer and they sailed
!. once more and were aga
defeated. Thus eight or ten despera
/, rounds we're fought, consuming {
hour and q half, and then the fatigue
party drew OFF and held a councii