Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-27
POPULAR SCIENCE.
THOSE RED-HOT REALMS UNDER
FUCKERS HILL.
A. fpressions nj Snrprise-Fooling the Re
porters-To Calculate Earth Temper
allure - How Hot 1t Will Get
in the fuckers I'M Well.

The various expressions OF surprise with
reference to the high temperature existing
g. The bottom of Fort Worth's deep arte-
=lin well on fuckers hill, aud the many
predictions set up concerning the red-hot
segions soon to be broken into, are highly
amusing, to say the least of it, Why, there
Is nothing whatever in the case that
mould De regarded as the least phenom-
oa4- The temperature of the earth, as
Sc descend into it, rms with as unvarying
rae..arity Is given volume OF water runs
down an even incline. There is not an ar
.esian well in Fort Worth, or anywhere
else FOR that matter, whose bottom temper
a'Ere You may not arrive II 10 i degree by
Tie employment OF a few simple figures,
nlGe you have learned its depth
OF course we are not saying this under
he impression that Fort Worth's educated
people don't know all about it. One occa-
s.ola,y reads interviews in the papers
where some Of them are made TO appear as
+ hey didn't understand i, but We were
once newspaper reporter, and therefore
auow how ii IS OuTsef-those folks were
running Joke in on the man There may
Or some Of the very young folks, however,
Nao as Yet are not well up to this earth
temperature science. and therefore we shall
hope % be excused for talking il over i
attic expressly to them.
The temperature of the earth at sixty
1ee, beneath the surface stands regularly at
s!Etyfour degrees above zero. From that
point downward every ad ditional sixty feet
penetrated gives one degree of higher tenn
pera.gre. The fuckers Hill well IS said
20 De- 500 feet deep. Now. divide the $500
oy IT, It will go nearly ffty-uine times
sou can call ii tifty-niue TO avoid fractions.
NeSE, lake on one of your sixties to repre-
sent he first sixty feet bored and set down
s!1ty-four as your temperature at that
tep'h. You now have fifty-eight OF your
sixties left. which represent tifty-cight de-
Ir-es o. high temperature. Add these fifty
e.s'J degrees to your sixty four degrees,
IS eE,stingat sixty feet down, and you have
~ degrees as the temperature Of the Tuck
sr's Hin well at $500 feet deep. II you had let
down egisteriug thermometer when
ne we. was al that depth It would have
fh7"u THAI your figures had not missed the
temperature so much as one degree. We
ave heard that the temperature had been
reported at l26 degrees, but miss of only
I7-r degrees IS pretty close for guess-work,
yo- know. If the fuckers Hill well goes
down 1000 feet, as proposed, 1t will have
temperature OF 1870 degrees at the bottom
'at .: ths 0ore-neither higher nor lower
Nher the ne'T Ratatorium well in Fort
Worth had, few days ago, got good out
tow a, the depth Of $50 feet, we went
tlere wilh orr thermometer aud tested the
temperature Of The water It showed 20
'-grees. scent If you VIII apply the same
-ela e this well, as foresoingly given. you
I'll. ma il working out correctly to the de-
gee And Just so il will pan out in the
AsSo o. shy we'd or deep hole in the ground
outside the immediate volcano or geyser re- |
E-ns
There might be slight variation in the |
'ase Of such wells as thsto the Fort Worth |
ArrTory, On = calculation of depth and test |
81 water FOR that well takes water from |
'"' water bearing strata-one considerably |
i"o7e he other. The water from the upper
stratum, bsiug cooler than that Of the lower |
HTa'uin. might reduce the temperature 4 |
'eS7Ho or 50 al the outflow, below what
-, ! |
a. Tor
writing on the subject of hydrophobia
~ NJ. t. Elzey says: as the maidstone a
'lre' No: but most unreliable and I'M
trustworthy preventive. Is the maidstone
'u7 Same thing as the snake-stone2 Yes; it
Merely very porous stone or hard mass
" CRED clay, which may clean poisoned
wound by absorbing the virus, but there
Ne many more efectual and easily applied
Ne'-o-S Of doing the same. What IS the
~ treatment in case of mad-dog or snake
'"e' That depends on circumstances. The
~ treatment for layInan TO undertake is
. nave lie nearest doctor in the least pos
'''e inc, aud 90 what he tells you. In the
''<A'Iiae cleanse the injured part thor
S--' Win milk, warm water and soap, |
IS coToiHg the linb-if the injury Is re-
'''ec On Hmb-above the injury, and
'Y'-' over. the wound q cupping
ass Enooth round-edged tum-
'r. CT 'ea-cup, a quinine or other
',.e-nouthed bottle will answer;
,-.sky or brandy, one-third spirits, two
'''us water. may be given in case of snake
ne wine glass full at 4 time and fire.
'~eh:.y repeated If exhaustion approaches,
IS frequently if there is not much depres-
'- q vital energy. It is well to clear the
.N'-'aeA by an emetic, very promptly given,
~ teasPoonful of mustard and one OF
- N'Lrred IN tumbler of warm, not hot,
"<,S, The bowels may be cleared by an
y. IA OF hot water, soaps and spirits of
,-[pen'!ne, to which half pint of whisky
- 'Faady may be added, Il depression be
a1sont