Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1889-03-12
EUREKA.
RING TIM BELLS AND FOUND
THn ToM-ToM.
Waco Leads the Rest Of the State IN
ArtesIan wells-A Well that will
Supply a City with Pare
Freestone Water.
EUREKA.

Yesterday was . grand day for Waco,
in that she contracted for the Texas
Grand Trunk Railroad. While the
contract was being arranged, which
will give her that great road, fortune,
which comes in chunks, was sealing
the destiny Of the city in the matter Of
water.
At two o'clock 10 the afternoon,
while the auger, which has been dill
ing for two months on Bells hill, in j.
D. Bells artesian we'll struck white
sand strata and great subterranean
ocean Of water at the same time, at the
depth of 1876 feet, and in FIVE minutes
it was demonstrated that Waco has the
biggest
ARTEsIAN WELL
in the state Of Texas. From a s and
So pipe this morning river is run
ming over Bells hill, with an estimated
flow Of four hundred thousand gallons
daily. The contractors estimated
that the force of water Is sufficient to
raise the water in stand pipe to q
hight Of one hundred, and perhaps, one
hundred and twenty-five feet.
PURE WATER.
The value Of . we'll Of such bound
less flow is Of . value inestimable, even
in dollars and cents. but when this is
added to the fact, that the water is Q
pure freestone, absolutely free from
mineral, the value Of the we'll and Of
the immense body Of water beneath
the city is intalcuable. 1t would
seem As If nature were working in sym.
pathy with the factory movement, for
the water thus found 10 inexhaustible
quantities, is the water for factories,
paper mills and sugar re6neries.
| THIS Is THE STREAM.
The j. l. Moore artesian we'll was
big thing. It demonstrated big sup
ply Of artesian water. But this new
we'll, about three hundred feet deeper,
has struck an ocean instead of lake
and brings up the purest water as
against water impregnated with miner
al. The reservoir struck at 1855 feet
is the grand reservoir, and Mr.. Moore
will at once 90 down to the same
depth.
WHAT IT MEANs.
This new discovery eclipses in sig
ni6cance schools, colleges, cotton mills
and railroads, because it makes all pos.
sible on an extended scale. Given
abundant water and all things are pos
sible to Waco. A boundless supply Of
; pure water means solid foundation
for the upbuilding Of manufacturing
city. It also means irrigation on q
large scale; in fact, We can only appre.
ciate small part Of its meaning.
NEARLY DISCOURAGED.
u Waco escaped loesing the great dis
covery only by the skin Of her teeth.
Mr.. Bell was greatly discouraged in
the last few days as the great augur
] pounded on rocks day after day. He
had determined, We understand, to
) keep on to depth Of 1900 feet, and
then stop. If the water had lain at q
s depth of 1901 feet it might not have
been reached. Happily it lay 1855
deep down instead Of 1901. Mr.. Bell
is said to be the happiest man in Waco
to-day and over his great we'll, gush-
ing up river, he capers like school
boy, as the stream is large enough to
: supply Waco with water for decade
to come.
THE STRATA.
At 14O0 and odd feet there lies q
, strata Of artesian bearing water faint.
cd with mineral substances, but with .
good superficial flow. The present
!, wster is struck in . strata Of white
sand about twenty feet in thickness.
ITEMS.
The casing Of the new we'll is down
3 1900 feet, and will be put down sever.
= al hundred feet more NO as to shut Of
the minernl water from the uppel
strata. Messrs. Fowler & McGilvery
are the contractors who bored the j. I
Moore we'll, the we'll at Gatesville ani
the we'll at Galveston. They 20 from
here to Brcmond to sink for watel
; there.
!, A funny thing occurred in the pc
!. lice court this morning. While officer,
s were driving lot Of COWS to the poun,
Il yesterday one Of the members Of tn,
i Smith family interfered with the off
4 GERS and . complaint was fled agains
d him. When the name of Smith va
a called on the complaint, up walked