Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-06-13
A woNpearuL WELL,
1t Throws a Fountain OF Water HI
dred Feet Into the Air.

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Tho artesian wall M char,evilla a.,
tho Warrepo river. Queensland 90 the
newest and most remarknhIe instanca
OF the natural resources Of marvelous
Australia Tho we'll 4. si,,,a,ad o,,ta
noar tho railroad station INF In ono ~
tho most uplllkelv places that could
have been ,maoined wbo IN eartb
tvonld have expected that this artesian
weu which a tbe hest IN tho world ~
Mt all events vields tbe largest arr,,unt
of water. was sunIt on tho ton of n hum.
mockp Vet 90 a. 10 Tho alto WAS
chosen nv the bvdraulic engineer I n
Henderson. for reasons hnown onlv 10
bimse,f bnt which h n % haen ,,,pl., IN.
s,inod -
Cross;,g tho swa, sat ,o.a,n %
this bnmmoclr at,an,,on 10 arou,n 70 a
wide channel cr, ,hro,r,h ,,a aim
sand and n "a evn,oinoa that ,ho on,.
t,ow 81 water bad done his oro tho an.
naratus for contro,ine A. had hecn oh.
tanned The bore itsc,f locked 1 harm.
,oqe enorrh L,nd =, ,h,nn T, raiaht
have been ,,kon for a,horb oh stand.
nine nlacod IN an idio,i. ncs,tion IN tho
bottom of n bole sixtv or seventv Yards
lona tbirtv hroad ana Ton ,oat doen
nut n momonts ohsorvat,on showed
that Tho bormless-loolkia, st.ndnino
bad made tho bolc. As matter of
fact the water when n WAS tanned
rushed nm in such volume tbatit washed
away tho sand around the bore In few
minutes and cleaned ont tho fonnda-
tio,s ~ ,ho ao.ni,,l, a,a ,hro..orod ~
wreck tho Whole con,rivance n thew
had not got a n,ng IN n nrettv soon. Il
would have washed Cbarleville into the
lyarrego On ION NJ tho nine there has
boen fixod n rigbt.anyle bend. 40 that
the water can be turned in anv direc.
lion.
Whom tho visitors arr, vea NJ tho boro
n was seen that tba watar was tr;ckling
I'm a tinv stroam from this bend into the
thirsty sand below. hut In a few minutes
tho scene was cbanoed Mr. Woodlev
of the oueensland Roring cownanv
which sunl Tho we'll onsned tho yalve
and with ovorv ,nrn ~ ,ha ,yho.J ,ha
,bin stroam th,cra,od ana dseo,,ad
fro,,, ;,o ,,r,,ar ,,ar,,,,,s,.,,.r .o,,rsa
Gradnallv the vo,nma ~ wa,or ;rcraosed
ond hao.n 20 - ,h-o,,.h az ,,,,o
,ir,os, i;La s,ao,, h,o,,;r, e., safot,
,,,Iva Era,,, ,a,.sa,t ~, -, hoa.o
more irterost,ng and when tha valve
was fullv ononed a. was a snectacIe IN
,ondars. prshinr to-, tho horo and
bv its own force eiecting itself for a dis.
tance Of thirty feet In n borizontal direc-
tion ,ame a column of water white as
milk In annoarance In n second or two
AZ cburned mn tbo sand baf,r,, ~ into
co,,aa.colorod mud
This was The fIrst s,ngu,ar tb,ng no. |
t,oaa TO- tho % il,ro, ,,,hito ,o-ront dr;v.
inc before n "a a. seemed the brown
mnd nroduced n whimsicai affect Iike
tho no,,r,ng Of rill and cotI,ee into the
same Gun Rnt th,s Ala not last long
In a verv few moments n little nond was
formed which Allied mn until the Ievol
Of the surroundjng ground was reached,
and then there was seen nj frat a riv-
ulet and then a stream rushing down
the hillside. When IL Is said that this
we'll filled a 4OO-pallon tank in thirteen |
seconds II can DO readily understood |
that all this did not take lonn. The |
valve was next closed and the right
angle bend removed. On the second
openinp of the valve there was Witnessed |