CLXII. ECONOMIC ASPECT OF ARTESIAN BORING IN N.S.W. 
prairie regions of Texas. At numerous places through its 
extent, magnificent flows of water have been secured, and 
what ten years ago was in many places poorly watered 
districts now abounds in magnificent artesian wells, which 
supply water to cities and farms in sufficient quantities to 
make new industries possible, besides furnishing water to 
irrigate many thousand of acres. The wells vary in depth 
from 50 to 2,000 feet; they vary in volume of flow from a 
gallon per minute toa thousand. The purity of the artesian 
supply for domestic purposes, and its healthfulness, gave 
Fort Worth an enviable superiority which her rival cities 
were not slow to imitate, and as a result of her success 
every city and village in the prairie region and in fact 
throughout the State, made artesian experiments. <A 
few of these were put down in unfavourable localities 
and were failures, but hundreds more were successful, and 
to day most of the cities of the Staté, which before this 
epoch were without good water are now supplied with 
abundance. The industrial uses to which these waters are 
put are many. At Waco hundreds of sewing machines in 
clothing factories, electric motors, wood working machinery 
and other small industries are run by the pressure of the 
wells without wasting the water, which is also used for 
irrigation. When the high cost of fuel in Texas is con- 
sidered, this use of artesian water becomes an important 
factor. The greatest use of this water at present is the 
fact that it brings to hitherto poorly watered farming and 
grazing lands an abundant supply of water for domestic 
and stock purposes, making small farms of 100 acres or less 
possible, where until recently, subdivisions of large areas 
of land or ranches were impossible. The farmers of the 
Paluxy Valley under their own crude methods are quadrupling 
their yield of cottonand grain. There are more than 1,000 
flowing wells in Texas west of the 87th meridian of west 
