Tombstone epitaph., 1895-05-26
GOOD NEWS.
Another Artesian We.l-The Sun of Prosperity Shining
 Brighter and Brighter.

Eif. J. ~. tufti-, Oi Nt. DhNlu, was III town yesterday with load of alfalfa hay, first cutting of the season. IL was well cured and oi excellent quail ity. Mir Curtis ie all old resident of | this county, and his home is in a zee | ton that Is fast couing Co the front as an agricultural producer.
 It is now certain that aTtesian water may he had any where around Marcus. The Messrs. McRae last year demon strated the fact that artesian water was there to be had, and since then P. r. Sabin has sunk well and found an abundant flow of an excellent quality oi pure water, and now, Mir. Curtis tells us. the Goodman boys have struck fine flow of water, but their drill or augur broke of in the well which will cause some delay in the progress of sinking to the full depth anticipated.
 The Loffgreen brothers are sinking in the same neighborhood, and no doubt will soon have another flowing well to report. John Merrill, David Merrill and Walter T. FIie, we under | stand, are contemplating the sinking of wells also MT. John Busby will try | for tue life glYing fluid, with an almost certainty of success There is no doubt but that within another twelve month all the settlers in the vicinity Of Marcus, and along the county be- tween Marcus and St. David, will put | down wells, when they will be per fectly independent so far ss the water supply is concerned.
 The keeping up of dams on the San Pedro river has been in past years a very expensive thing 10 these honest, hard-working taxpayers, and the water was conveyed on to their land at cost of grea. labor and outlay of money, to say nothing of the bickerings and bad feelings engendered by the water in the river being appropriated by parties in other neighborhoods who claimed a prior right. Then add to all this the costs Of expensive law suits and it will readily be seen that the precincts oi the soil, 10 these people, cost more than could be realized for them after their crops had been harvested.
 There is a section of country lying between St. David and the Mcdonald school district where srtesian water could be had no doubt by sinking for it. The lay of the country is about the same as lowe: down the river, and the watershed is practically the same and comprises all country lying be- tween the south end of the Dragon mountains to the east and the Whet- stone mountains on the west; the Mules and Huachuca mountains, and all those ranges of mountains on either side of the San Pedro river reaching away down into Mexico and cover ering a stretch of country about eighty miles in length by an average of about thirty miles in width: so there must be a reservoIr of water of vast dinner sions underlying all of this country,
 which can and will be brought to the surface.
 The soil Of Cochise county, through ou, all of this river country is the equal in producing qualities of any land in this country, or in any of the older states, and will mature any crop
 that Is planted in quantity and quality unsurpassed by any state in the union and with the water question settled Co- l, chise county is the most favored sec tion of the territory, for all that can , be said of the river country is equally applicable to the Sulphur Spring and } San simon valleys. Flowing water ha, } been had in the section of country
 surrounding Soldier Holes for many
 years, and it has been demostrated mol
 far from Wilcox that the same can bt had there. A we'll was eunk by MT . Vic Wilson (well known in Tomb. stone, and who was since killed ir California; to the depth ct 225 feet l, when he ceased work the water wal
 within 9 feet of the surface, showing
 that there was POO feet of wate, ! in the well, and without a doub, if work had been prosecuted to another hundred, or two hundred feet at most @ good flow of artisan water would have been found.
 So, with the products of our mines
 which are on the eve of being greatly increased, and with the number of ar. tssian wells being found, let us take courage and press on to the ultimate success that is bound to come to him | Uho patiaptlv ua,ts