Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1882 — The Wells in Sahara. [ARTICLE]

The Wells in Sahara.

French enterprise is steadily persevering in the work of redeeming the Desert of Sahara by means of artesian wells. A large number of wells have been sunk alo ig the northern border, more than 150 in the Province of Constantino alone, and the work is advancing into the interior. One of the curious phenomena which the digging of these wells has brought to notice is the existence of fish and crabs at great depths. The learned engineer, M. Jus, who for twenty years has direct' d the work, avers that he once boiled and ate a crab which had been drawn up from a depth of 250 feet, and that, moreover, it was of an excellent flavor.