Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — ARTESIAN WELLS. [ARTICLE]

ARTESIAN WELLS.

As the subject of artesian wells has been more or less agitated in this county, many of our readers will gain valuable information from the following article, copied from the Middleport (Ill.) Republican, which is published in the first county west of this. Some of our citizens will remember that Mr. Van Rensselaer ; has proposed that, if our citizens subscribe S2OO for boring an artesian well in the public square, he will subscribe SIOO more. This is a good offer, and ought to be accepted. The Republican says: We are indebted to our friend, Luther T. Clark, of Ash Grove, in this county, for valuable information concerning the Artesian Wells in and about that Grove. Mr. Clark seyds us a tabular statement of the Wells in his neighborhood, which we present below:

Owner es Well.

Gals, per mil Cest. - - . ■ Depth. - - When bored.

' • . H J. B. Clark. 2 years sine*. feet, $225 3 James Wilson, :‘ '• “ 66 “ J4B 30 Janies Davis, “ “ “ 74 “ 166 6 N. Jenkins, 20 mo. sinca, 102 “ 200 30 Jno. Willoughby, 9 •• “ 73 “ go j J. H. Stidham, 12 “ “ 90 “ 115 ] E. D Stidham, 2 “ “ 74 “ 80 2 E. R. Spain, 6 “ “ 66 “ 80 2 R. R. Chess, 6 “ “ 70 “ 115 5 G. F. Keath, 6 “ 66 “ 90 5 James Spain, 6 “ “ 75 “ 85 5 Morris Neighbor, 6 “ “ 66 “ 85 2 Elliott Boggs, 12 “ 66 “ ' 100 60 Elliott Boggs, 6 “ “ 63 “ 85 3 S Cissna, 12 “ f “ 45 “ 55 90 ■P. Lutz, 9 “ •• J2O “ 170 60 P. M. Devore, 9 “ “ 90 “ 90 120 Mrs. Brock, 12 •• “ , 90 “ 100 1 W. Harvey, 12 “ “ 77 “ 115 30 John McCoy, 12 “ “ 72 “ 100 40 Hamilton, 9 “ “ 41 “ 50 10 Bridges, 1 •• “ 63 “ 80 Peter Devore, 9 “ “ , 107 “ 140 2 Mrs. Belt, 9 •• “ 72 “ 90 3 Thomas Padget, 12 “ “ 70 “ 100 3 A. Taylor, 6 “ “ 125 “ 160 40 Jacob Huminelk 6 “ “ 75 “ 80 2 L. T. Clark, 9 “ “ 75 “ ‘ 75 2 Joel Caulkins, 1 “ “ j-19 “ 172 4 Another in progress, 119 feet deep, water. Here are thirty not yet completed—in and about Ash Groye alone. Concerning a point which has excited some inquiry, namely: whether this kind of well does not gradually diminish its supply of water, what Mr. Clark writer of the above wells, will furnish some light. He says: “There are four or five in the above list that run stronger at first than they do at present. I have given the present strength. There are none of them failing.” We doubt not that the information furnished above will interest many of our readers who are contemplating boring Artesian Wells; and we think it gives a pretty correct idea of the average depth and cost of these wells throughout the county .