Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Tho Whistling Well. [ARTICLE]

Tho Whistling Well.

In the town of Great Valley, in Cattaraugus county. New York, there is a freak of nature known locally as “the whistling well.” The well was drilled to the depth of forty-five feet a century ago, but no water accumulated. A flat stone with ali inch hole was fitted over the mouth of the well, and a whistle fitted into it, which changed its tone as the air was drawn down or up. In settled wenther the whistle was silent. An approaching storm was heralded by the warning shriek of the whistle as the air rushed out of the well, but a 6 clear weather approached 4he current of air changed and rußhed into the well, and the faithful whistle changed and told the story by its changed tone. The whistle has long been worn out, but the well still continues to advertise the weather. In a heavy rainstorm the out rushing wind forces the rain upward some in the form of a spray.