Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-05

ward the temperature will be found rising
with every foot accomplished. For tho
first sixty-thres feet after passing the turn
ing point the change will be but slight but
thence onward it viii run At l deg. OF rise
for every additional sixty-thrae feet. This
rule prevails about the same everywhere,
and upon il may be explained what many
seem TO regard as the phenomenal high
temperature now noted in the fuckers HID
well at Fort Worth, which is near on &c
5000 feet deep. L presents no kind of new
thing. but IS simply what might have been
expected at the start. As the well conti1-
ues to 90 down the temperature viii oon-
tinue to rise gradually, Just as it has been
rising since the turning point in temuera-
ture was passed. All the deep bores Of
this or any other country display the same
popularity. The Dupont well At Louis
Vile, Ky. 20>O feet deep, throws it water
TO the surface al a temperature Of 105, and
tue 5000 feet We'll at 81. Louis discharges
water much warmer. Some Of the deep
mines Of tn, world are 50 hot that cold air
must be constantly forced into them TO en-
able the miners to live ana work,
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This discovery of a rapidly rising ten
perature Us we descend INTO the earth was
what first gave shape TO the theory Of
central fire; or il other words, that the
center of the earth was Z molten mass in
great heat, and that we were simply living
uron a thin crust, comparatively speaking,
that lad cooled around it. The volcanoes,
pouring forth their molten matter, We're
looked upon as strongly supporting the
theory. For a long time scientific men
were pretty well united on this theory. but
Of late, since we have learned 50 much
about electricity, there are several new
schools Of theorists in the premises, some Of
which deny the existence Of molten mass
at the center OF the earth, TO which the
volcanoes act rs safety valves 10 prevent
tie surrounding crust from being blown
into fragments, Just as steam boiler with
out a safety valve would be blown.
But with all these confietions IN theory
there is no contlictiou as to the gradual and
regular rise Of temperature as we get down
into the earth. This Is an established fact,
and hence explains the warming up ct the
fuckers Hill well in Fort Worth, AMI
other deep wells. The same rule holds good
everywhere, so far - we know. No partic-
ular formations seem to influence it in the
least The very deep but unsuccessful
well bored at Atlanta, Ga, went moro than
2OO0 feet in solid grauitc-2o0O feet in the
very bed-rocl-but the rise of temperature
in the granite was exactly on the same
scale As it had been above.
If i were possible To bore q well TO depth
great enough and there find Il water bear
ing stratum or 4 fissurc in the primitive
rocks into which water had found its way,
we'd doubtless be rewarded with a eeyser
for our pains. The Eeysors may not all la
dependent upon head pressure for their out
flow, as are the artesian wells, yet there are
now many scientists who believe they are,
looking upon them as coming up through
assures in the rocks that, by volcanic action.
have been broken through to water deposits
lying al 4 very great depth. They argue
that unless there was a constant supply
from JIt SuIlitt the St'N SCR NtN4u eNtuLu-
ally exhaust the interior deposit and cease
TO flow. -
Speaking of artesian wells leads US TO
think OF the movement now on foot to sup
ply waterworks for Fort Worth with
group of wells. Ii 5 entirely feasible as we
have seen by the same kind of thing at an
other place. Montgomery, Ala, city not
far from the same size as Fort Worth, IS
amply supplied by group of six or seven
artesian wells. The outflow there is not
near IS fine as at Fort Worth, and the water
does not rise much above the surface 1t is
passed into reservoirs from which an en-
CINE lifts it to a stand pipe and forces it
over the city. If the Fort Worth people
are not entirely familiar with this thing of
watering city from artesian wells it would
pay them possibly to send a delegate to
Montgomery to inspect the works there.
Montgomery Is now regarded as the best
watered city in the South.