The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-07
WILL COME HERE
STUDENTS WILL VISIT WICHITA
TO SEE THE PROSPECT WELL

An Expert from the School of Mines nj
Rolia. No, Gives His Views of what He
Terms the Aysterious Discovery OF the
Great Volume of Water Beneath the
City-He Also Predicts what vin be
Found Within the Next One Hundred
Fees-student from Two Colleges Con-
tempIatins . Visit.
At the prospect well yesterday the
new iron thing had just been placed in
position and the augur IS now going
ChinawarSis with each revolution OF the
windlass.
The great lake which was reached az
ter boring eight feet from the surface
proved too much for the wooden casing
and II had to be taken up and replaced
with the iron tubing. Yesterday a car
load OF iron tubing was received and
cur 10 interfer with the further prosecu-
ton OF the work
The great body Of water, thirty-four
feet in depth, which was found. and
published exclusively in the Eagle, -
attracting not only the attention OF
many students OF geology IN Wichita.
but at other places as well The ac-
count published in the Eagle has been
copied by not only the leading dailies
OF thecountry T., and by several leading
scientific papers, and is being discussed
by q large number OF classes IN colleges
and academies.
Herbert Roberts Of the school ofm.nes
OF Missouri was In the city the first Of
the week 10 gather data concerning the
mysterious find. He claimed that the
surface here was underIaid with a sub
teranean river. the general current OF
which was TO the southeast He was
very anxious 10 obtain particular log
Of the strata OF blue clay which he be-
lieves will extend about forty feet. end
ing either iIs sOapstOne or red keel, as IS
found cropping out in many places in
Oklahoma
A class OF students OF both the agTi-
cultural college az Manhattan and OF
the state university at Lawrence are
contemplating. II is said, a visit TO what
they are pleased to term the mysterious
we'll. They do not doubt the existence
of the gerat volume OF water, as its
presence has been known for some time.
but what attracts their attention more
than anything else Is that there IS no
cases OF sinking earth in Sedgwick
county similar TO what occurred in But
Ter county last year, when over forty
acres sank into the earth 10 depth OF
fifty feet.
They claim, in their advanced theory,
from what they have gathered, that IL
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face and the top OF the earth can be
broken that the strength OF the rays OF
the sun should draw the water 10 the
surface, and drought would be some
thing unknown.
II the classes which are talking OF Wis
itfng Wichita for the purpose OF exam
lining thep respect well arrive, a class
OF biologists IN this city say they will
join them and an open well will be dug
and several experiments will be tried.
and fash Light photos taken OF the in
side OF the well.
The ropes and the tubing being on the
ground and the great volume Of water
being shut out, the committee believe
that the work will be prosecuted from
this time on with raptdity. The wooden
tubing was not close enough TO shut out
the water and while the great pumps
were at work the sand at the bottom Of
the river or lake, lying Immediately
above the blue clay, wos pumped up to |
a width OF seven feet in diameter.