Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-06

Efforts to Control the Fiow Of watey =,
Belle Piaine, Iowa
BELLE PLAINS, Iowa, Sept. 9.-rhe
outflow OF water from the big artesls Z
well is now practically under control. but
the output is still as large as ever. A
deep trench about eight hundred foo, Ionc
has been cut In Beech street. copnac,,rs
.ne wen with q natural creek which
enpues INTO the Iowa river. The water
y pouring out OF the ground at the rate
oI ABOUT I'VE thousand gallons a minnie.
WIN an estimated pressure of thirtv.flve
pounds 70 the square inch All danger 10
properly is now at an end. Engineer
rainier completed his great iron cone.
weighing over ton, about moon
to-day, and had about atty men
az work up until 7 O'Clock this
evening trying to force II into the well a
plank wall and platform have been built
around the hole, and over this a big der
rick, worked bylsteam, lowered the cone
ana connecting pipes into the openIng
inside the cone and firmly fastened
thereto Is five-inch casing, which acts
as sort OF handle to the cone and gives
the whole thing the general outline Of An
arrow. The cone is twenty feet lone
thirty inches In diameter at the ton. ana
nVe lncnes at the bottom, where Il is
strongly oolted to the flve-inch casing.
ABOUT zzO ieet OF twc-inch casing runs
from the top OF the well to the bottom OF
tne suDterranean river, and over this the
cone with Its hve-inch casing was low
cred, the two-inch pipe being expected to
sct as guide down the opening.
II took three hours hard work to
force the cone through the upper
crust, which is about ten feet thick, the
pressure OF the water and the oblong
shape Of the opening preventing its en-
trance. The cone when sunk level with
the water was filled with sand, which
more than doubled its weight, but this
was OF little assistance. When the cone
passed through the outer crust and into
the sand-bed the work became easier.
Twenty-foot sections OF the five-inch
casing were connected to the cone as It
sank into the hole, and by O'Clock it
had reached depth of sixty-two feet.
Here the point Of the cone encountered
the upper edge of the eighty-fve feet of
sixteen-inch casing inserted two days
ago, but the utmost efforts OF the en-
gineer failed to get the point OF the
cone into the casing, although with
the two-inch guide-pipe running
through both the Job seemed easy
If the cone enters the sixteen-lnch
casing the job will probably be complete
success, the only thing then necessary be-
ing to till up the hole over the cone. The
water would then be confined to the flve-
inch casing inside. A new guideplpe
three inches in diameter will be inserted
tomorrow. The engineer believes that
the water is confined to the sixteen.inch
casing in its passage through the upper
portion OF the structure of blue clay,
which is altogether about one hundred
and fifty feet thick. Excursion trains
will run here Sunday. Several biologists
arrived here to-day to examine the we'll
and the topography of the country and
their careful examination Of the output
OF sand and gravel made them the butt Of
some local practical jokers. Various ex-
traordinary things are exhibited as hav-
ing come up the well, among these being
alive pig, which is tied to an adjacent
fence and labeled, "Came up the spout at
2;30 Supposed to be from China"