Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1878 — A Wonderful Artesian Well, [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Artesian Well,

The deepest artesian well in the world is now in progress at Pesth, and has already reached a depth of 951 metres (3,118 feet). The well at Paris, which is 547 metres in depth, has hitherto held the fir3t place in such achievements. Tfie work is carried on at the expense of the city, which has granted a sum equal to £40,000 for the purpose, with the intention of obtaining an unlimited supply of warm water for the municipal establishments and public baths. The water at present issuing has a temperature of 161 deg. Fahr., and the operations will be continued nntil that of 178 deg. Fahr. is obtained. About 175,000 gallons of the liquid stream out daily, and rise to a height of thirty-five feet. This amount will not only supply all the wants of the city, but is expected to convert the surrounding district into a sort of tropical garden, by the constant evolution of heat. Since June last, the boring has penetrated through 200 feet of dalomite, and the preceding strata passed through have supplied a number of interesting facts to the geologist, which have been noticed from time to time in the Hungarian Academy of Science*, The difficulties to be overcome have given rise to naany highly in*

genions engineering devioee, such as a method for driving nails, at the enormous depth above mentioned, and, more, the means of drawing them (bj magnets), of cutting off and pulling tip broken tabes, and, above all, a valuable mechanical apparatus by means of which the water rising from the well is used as a motive power, driving the drills at a rate of speed double that previously imparted from the mouth of the well.