Artesian Wells.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 269, 5 January 1875, Page 7

Artesian Wells.

• The "Country Reporter" of the 1 DaVy Times writes as follows in the issue ;o'f 7)e-' oemher 2.") :—'' l r L esian'wells rtifght/with adv\nta£e, be tried oa the Dnnstan Hit The experiment would not he am ont-of the wayexpensive one, as, after pussiiu* through about one.hundred and twenty feet of alluvial drift, the bed roek, a spins' sonv>ti"if>s overlaid' with sandstone, is not immoderately'hard.. A hore hole to the depth of 500 feet should afford a perennial crushing s'reanu Lahos Wakntir), Wanaka. and Hawea are between 500 and GOO feei above this level'; besides, there must also he a large pen'fc-nii wa'fcer-suppV percolating through the rocky tissues of the hi:;!i srirrounding ranges. Tn the primitive schist this.could undoubtedly be tapped, arid perhaps at a considerably less depth than tha* alluded to, The bore of the artesian we^

ife^reiiello—one of the environs at Paris —is -only eleven inTJfrsr-iu' dlHTrotsr, und Mr Pefraud informs mo that lie should ixil> dilute the-discharge' its equal to what Ave imtlcrstHWfll here us thirty Government heads. This supply would be sufficient to convert the wholeof the Dunstan flat from :i sandy waj&te inl* a dkta of equal fruitfulness as the Monte "Ohristo Gardens, opening up a '"source-of almost unaccountable wealth. As ihis water would only bo • ■•pqnivM \v the agriculturists and horticulturists four months out of the year, during the remaining eight it would be available .for iiAiiixg jj(Ui;po&fs."