Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — Selma’s Wonderful Well. [ARTICLE]

Selma’s Wonderful Well.

The town of Selma, Ala., claims to have the most wonderful artesian well in the world, and it would seem with good reason. The remarkable feature in the case is that two separate streams of water of entire different properties flow from this well. The singular effect in question is produced, it seems, by the simple insertion of a two-mch pipe within a four-inch tube. The larger pipe descends to a depth' of 400 feet, the water having no mineral qualities or character, and being very cold; the inner pipe descends 7tHt feet, the water-is strongly impregnated with sulphur and iron, and, compared with the temperature of the twin stream, is Quite waym. ...