WONDERFUL EFFECT OF ARTESIAN WELLS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 760, 10 November 1876, Page 3

WONDERFUL EFFECT OF ARTESIAN WELLS.

When the Mormon leader, Smith, first went to Utah, the land was a howling wilderness. With splendid comprehension and great patience, the strange polygamist peo. le sunk deep wells and dug trenches -throughout the waste. ' They turned the course of distant hill-streams towards the settlement ; and in a few years the face of the country was rich in verdure and fruit. In I*oß, a French engineer began boring the first deen well in the Desert of Sahara; and since that time over eighty artesian wells have been stink in the desert. The change has been a’most magical Each well yields about 1000 "aliens a minute. The wilderness is losing its old features, and in a few more years will have forgotten its former mystery. In 1872, two new villages had sprung up in the midst of the former solitude, and 150, 000 palm trees had been planted in more than 1000 new gardens. So we mav justly make special notice of the sinking of an artesian well. In St. Louis, Louisville, Philadelphia, and Charleston there are remarkably deep and generous wells In Iroquois Countv, 111., there are 200 artesian wells within a radius of twenty miles, and though their average depth is only Seventy feet, their daily yield is estimated at 53.400,000 gallons of pure water. In Pennsylvania the artesian wells are sunk for petroleum, and the world is plentifully supplied with a new and valuable material. "No wnnder that the hestlight of science should be turned on the moans of well-boring and that the face of the modern cutting iron or drill should he armed with diamonds. In ancient times the man who dug a well or planted a treo was honored by his fellows; and in our day we should fee! grateful to the ( man or company that bores an 1 rtesian well.—Pilot*