ARTESIAN WELLS. 



401 



Value of the building-stone product of the Denver Basin <m<l adjacent country for the 



years 1889-1894.a 



"i Mineral Resources of the United States U. S. Geol. Survey. 



&Very uearlj . 



cMo statoraenl made regarding early outputs. 



SECTION rv.— ARTESIAN WELLS. 



HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT. 

 EAin.Y ATTEMPTS. 



The earliest exploration for artesian water in Colorado was at Kit 

 Carson station on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, in the year L870, under the 

 direction of * J-en. William J. Palmer The well, according to best accounts, 

 was sunk to a depth of about L,300 feel without obtaining water and was 

 then abandoned. 



The next attempt to find artesian water was made in the vicinity of 

 Denver in February, 1874, when a well located near the cemetery, on the 

 highlands, east of the town, was drilled by private enterprise to a depth of 

 795 feet, but uone of the three water-bearing strata cut yielded surface 

 flows, the pressure being insufficient. In another account of this well, 

 however, the date' is given as 1871, and water is reported to have flowed 

 at the surface from a depth of 670 feet; obstructions soon after caused a 

 discontinuance of the work. 



In the year 1879 a well was drilled for petroleum at South Pueblo, in 

 the Arkansas Valley. At a depth of 1,180 feet a flow of mineral water 

 (temperature 82 F.) was struck, yielding 160,000 gallons per twenty-four 

 hours. Drilling was abandoned at a depth of 1,404 feet: cost, s .">.li; per 

 foot. This flow is from the Dakota sandstones. < >n December 1, 1888, 

 the yield was 126,000 gallons per twenty-four hours. 



In 1880 a well was bored for water on Coal ('reek, Fremont County. 

 A depth of 1,278 feet was reached without obtaining a surface How. 



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