The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-04


Water The Water Fills the Hole to the
TopOf the Tubing and las Almost as
Much Force as an Artesian yein-The
Flow is Smut Out by the Heavy Casing
Lowered and the Work is Resumed.
At $50 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
The drll ait THE prospect well made an
other downward lunge which carried
the screw to ahe full length Of the
spool. The spool is a screw which is
used by the operator at the top of the
we'll in lowering the drill so as TO strike
the bottom each time. the spool is
about 80 feet in length and when the
lever reaches the bottom of the spool
The drill is raised and the debris taken
put by means Of the sand buckets.
The drill had only been IN operation
few minutes when the downward
lunge was made the full length Of the
spool. The ropes were let down and ft
was found that the drill had entered
what appeared TO be a cave, but after
wards proved to be a subteranean river
No. 2. Tire depth was a little over four
feet and at the bottom was found very
coarse sand and gravel. The second
+ver was altogether different from the
first which was reached at depth of
sixteen feet below the surface. The
first stream had but a slow current
and was full of sand, while sand was
only found in the second stream at the
bottom and the current was quite swift.
In a few minutes the water had risen
TO within fourteen fest Of the top OF
the well, or as far as the heavy ttrbfrg
n, 4 !
20 the top Of the ground 1T is probable
that 1t would have risen to the surface
Of THE ground. New casing was drop
ped to the bottom of the hole, which is
a size sgIra Her than that which ha been
used, ard drove down beneath this
second stream of water and by o'clock
the drill was bending its way at a rapid
rate howard China.
In yesterdays report a stone which
had flhe appearance of sand stone was
said to have been reached, but yes
teI6ay's work showed this stone par
took more OF the nature of boulder, or
Niger head rock and was soon passed.
Crystalized gypsum was then found and
continued throughout the day, with oc-
casional pockets being reached as des-
cribed in yesterdays report
The work is progressing nicely and
Contractor Austin assured the reporter
mlhen he visited the well last night that
he felt no apprehension Of trouble from
The second body Of water found, and
that with the heavy casing he would
be enabled 20 completely shut the water
out
AS an evidence OF the interest taken
IN the well by non-reSidents of the city
the following communication from DR..
H. NJ. Harrblin Of Newkitk, o. T., is
published.
Newkirk, Kay County, o. T, Dec. 2,
1851 saw the statement few weeks
ago than you would bore your we'll $500
fest deep SO 1 VIII ask you few ques-
ti0rs.
First-Do you know that the potash
Industry in Germany supports hundreds
Of thousands eff people and that half
dozen cities are working at that in
d9lsbTy alone? If l remember fully the
history of that well east Of Wichita
ten m5les. they went Through a thick
vein Of rock salt and from what L
know OF the salt region in the Arkansas /
valley IL must be very much like the
salt basin i'm the valley of the ETbe river
in Germany. The potash salts are
found in carnallite and kainite.
For many hundreds of years they
have had salt wells and made salt by
evaporation in SaXOny and north Ger
many, but in 1888 the P-usSian govern
INERT was Boring for the rock salt so
that VI might know wieere 10 sink shafts
and mine the sslt In that year at n
depth of 1880 feet they struck VEIN Of
kainlte. A few years afterwards many
shafts were put down and in 1861 they
began ito make potash from these min
erals and now the StaSsfult works en- (
ploy 10000 men.
1T seerrs to ne If were YOU | should
serd 10 Hon. Prank II. Mason. United
States consul general ait Frankfurt.
Germany, and get specimens OF all the
in wtntch the potash salts were
found. viz: rock salt, carnaIlfte, kieser- .
tie, shoenihe, syloinite and kinlte, and 7.
Gllecm as you so down.
In the year 1892 the output was as
follows In this part Of Germany: 1T was
worth millions Of dollars and made the .
bedt root sugar industry a possibility:
Tons.
Rock salt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 29S, 400
~ tfdI44te .'....-.-........... $50, 100
hierSerite NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 57S2
ooiioeIll1e 406S9
Syloiaite 80 $50
h&1nIte Observation-Disclosures. )s4
SO you Will see the work is vast and,
as yet. just in its infancy
a late writer says: Enormous beds
Of rock salt both cover and underlie the
seVeI'al stratas OF potash minerals"
You have the beds Of rock salt from
AndOver 10 Klngman and l believe You
have potash minerals at Wichita They
do not have them anywhere else. as
ar as known, in the United States
Here IS what an European expert
says Not until the Substrata which lie
all the principal American salt
beds have been explored 10 q depth of
at least 5000 feet. VIII 81 be definitely
known w-hdther or not nature has stored
on the western conginent q supply OF
potash adequate and fitted to complete
the trinity and balance the nitrates of
uhih and the phosphases OF the Florida
peninsula
/ have neglected this for a long time
and VIII say if you viii write 10 the
bureau Of statistics st Washington. d. !
=, for consular report No. l6q. Tor Oc-
tober, 1894. you VIII get a long article
N this potash industry by Consul Cen
raj Mason Of Frankfurt, or bscter vet.
write Senator PETER what You want II
or and he VIII get St for you anyway.
You better have him set the specimens
nom Consul General Mason and be-
ieve You can get through him & pot
lsh Industry Report from the United
states geological survey. As far as
R2a find your salt deposit Is almost. eN-
lcty ike that of Germany and II YOU
rave the potash IL Is a thousand times