Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-24
GROWTH OF DOUGLAS.

This year marks a new era in the history of Douglas. Phenomenally prosperous, her people scarely real ize the importance of the new factor which is to play so Eonderful 9 part in the consummation Of her future greatness.
 Since the strike Of aFgesian water made by the Copper Queen company reports of numerous strikes made by the cattlemen years ago and promptly plugged and smothered are current everywhere.
 The cattlemen are beginning to re- alize that the smothering business was a serious mistake. At the time range cattle are fat the market is usually low, and feed at reasonable prices is needed to keep their stock in good condition for shipment until prices have advanced. Artesian water invites agriculture to this valley and since having accepted the new order of things as inevitable and recog- nizing that the interests of the cattle men will be advanced in consequence, they are giving up their long buried secret, which proves that we are To- cated in a vast artesian basin, com posing Sulphur Springs. San Pedro and San Simon valleys.
 Enterprisins citizens have ordered drilling plants to be used in Douglas and vicinity. Soon drills will be drop ping from a score of derricks The success which will undoubtedly crown their efforts will invite others, until Sulphur Springs valley will vie with the great artesian district of Anargo, Illinois, where several hundred wells are to be found within a radius of ten miles. Tn 1889 it was estimated that 200 wells in that district dis charged 53,4OO,OO0 gallons daily, or an average to each well of 276,000 gallons, which would be 11,I25 gal Ions per hour, or 1S5 5-12 gallons per minute.
 It is safe to say that within the ensuing year many thousands of acres of the public domain will be home steaded or covered with scrip in this locality Lieu land scrip will be al a premium here and he who has it for sale on demand will score a good many thousand to his credit.
 A few general thoughts on artesian water might not be out of place here since the most populous district in the world lies in an artesian basin, and everywhere it is found prosper ity is assured.
 The name aTtesian is derived from artois Uatin artesium) a town in France, where many remarkable wells have been sunk. One al Grenellc flows 51G1A gallons per minute, throw ing a column of water 32 feet in the air This well is 1792 feet in depth and has an estimated pressure of fifty atmospheres, of 750 pounds to the square inch. At Passy, France, is a well 24 feet in diameter, which discharges 5,5OO,OOO gallons per day, or 3S121z gallons per minute.
 The ornamental fountain in Trafal- gar Square, London, is an artesian pressure, in fact, the city of London lies in a strong and well developed artesian basin.
 Artesian wells have been known and used in Austria for hundreds of years and in China for thousands of years.
 The great advantage of artesian wa ter is in affording a supply in arid regions, such as our own peculiar To- cality, where the soil is unexceIled but where rainfall is either insuf- ficient or unreasonable
 The Great Sahara desert is sup piled with many wells, the first one sunk flowing 1OO21z gallons per minute
 Some years ago, I think in the early cos, the United States Government sent out an expedition for the pur-