The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-11-23

and mentioned above finds an out
let around TO the westward that is
on a level with the water at the
head of North Spring River. As
to where all this water ome from
we cannot hope to have any detail
ed knowledge, but i'll a general way
we conclude that it drains a good
part of the subterranean water shed
of our end of the Rocky Mountain
range.
Our known or proven artesian
water level takes III about 10000 o
acres of land and by drilling we
have found this watershed is miles
broader than 100000 acres that
come under this level mean that
when we have drilled to water on
the highest levels to the west of
our artesian water level, even as
many miles as would double the
breadth of our territory under our
level the water would only rise to
where it would show the level of
the water i'll North Spring River.
This has been many times proven.
AS to where this water goes we
cannot know, but it is highly i'm
portant and intensely gratifying
that it is going and will keep on
going, even after we drill holes
enough to irrigate every inch of
our 500, 900 acres under the arte-
sian level. In other words, water
under this level, will be the maxi
mum and land III the minimum,
and | can not find the existence of
a like condition anywhere else. No
where else have we had any truth
full data from which to logically or
truthfully calculate as to the cause
of an artesian water level or to de-
termine approximately the quantity
| of water available.
At the great risk of making all I
have written fshy, l am going to
present some new data that has
Just come to ME: About twelve
years ago there began a down pour
that has made a flood that has
caused overhows that have not been
equaled in at least 20 years. 1t
came over the hills pouring into
the basin at the head of North
Spring River until it raised the
water level about FIVE feet, and
that level being FIVE feet higher
than the subterranean exit de-
scribed above, the flood went off
by way of the subterrarean exit
and as its gravity carried it to this
lower level it also carried fish too,
that we're in the basin at the head
of the river, and some of those
small fish are now coming up to
the surface here at Artesia in our
artesian wells As miles below where
they doubtless entered the subter-
ranean flow. III one instance they
came up through the drill pipe
where they struck the flow, about
875 feet below the surface, yester-
day, October II, 1904. They were
drilling without the water swivel
as the flow was sufficient for fore
ing out the cuttings of the bit, SO
these little minnoWs came through
the H-inch holes at the top of the
bit that is screwed into the bottom
of the boring pipe. This evidence
SO forcibly Corroborates the truth
of my inductions that it sets me on
the plane of conclusive fact instead
of in the territory of theory. In
fact it is as startling to ME as l
doubt not it is fshy to the reader.
But when you come to see you will
not find me like the one who lying
run out of timber for props; wher-
ever there is the blessed satisfaction
of brains it does not require educa-
ton to know that truth is sure for
a harvest and that it comes cheaper
than props for falsehood. 1t seems
to me silly to attempt to detail to
you the kind of soil, the price of
land, in fact to attempt the style of
the promoter with his fambuoyant
gush of exaggeration, but it seems
comprehensive to say that most of
the land is as rich and productive
as the valley of the Nile" and