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Review of Science and Industry, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 

 VOL. VIIL JUNE and JULY, 1884. NO. 2-3 



GEOLOGY. 



THE RUSSELL ARTESIAN WELL. 



JOHN D. PARKER, U. S. A., FORT HAYS, KANSAS. 



Recently I made a visit to Russell, Kansas, and was very much interested 

 in an artesian well which the citizens of that enterprising town have been boring. 

 The town voted ten thousand dollars worth of bonds, and engaged a company 

 from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to make the boring which has not been put down 

 as far as they contemplated at the beginning. As the drill did not take out a 

 core, the boring at certain intervals was stopped, by pressure on the sides, and a 

 smaller bore within the larger adopted, the whole bore appearing like an inverted 

 jointed telescope, with the exception that the tubing of each bore comes to the 

 surface of the ground. Each time a smaller bore was commenced within the larg- 

 er bore there was some delay in obtaining the cast-iron tubing, which was man- 

 ufactured at Pittsburg,^ Pennsylvania, and the company at last, at the time of one 

 of those delays, abandoned the work. 



It is impossible to say^what may be the final adjustment of the matter, but it 

 is hoped that the well will be completed with a diamond drill which takes out a 

 central core, until if water is not ^sooner found, the depth of 3,500 feet has 

 been reached, which was first contemplated. I deem this a matter of the highest 

 importance, as a test of^^artesiah wells in Western Kansas. If artesian wells can 

 be obtained in Western^ Kansas, it will change the face of the whole country. 



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