Passing this line the diameter to the present bottom of the well, is three and a half inches. From that point it is diminished to nine inch es, and this diameter is preserved to the depth of 457 feet. Thence the diameter is again lessened to sixteen inches, until the depth of 78 feet from the surface is attained. From the surface of the.' ground, where it is tourteen feet in diameter, it has a conical form, lessening at the depth of thirty feet to a diameter of six feet.
The well was first commenced as a cistern. Through limestone, 28 feet 2nd, shale 2 3rd, limestone, 231 4th, chertz rock, 15 5th, limestone, 74 6th, shale, 30 7th, limestone, 75 8th, shale, 14 9th, lime stone, 384 10th, sandy shale, 7 11th, lime stone, 1284 12th, red marl, 15 13th, shale, 30 14th, red marl, 50 15fch, shale, 30 16th, limestone, 119 17th, shale, 66 18th, bitumi nous marl, 15 19th, shale, 80 20th, lime stone, 134 21st, chertz rock, 62 22nd, lime stone, 134 23rd, shale, 70 24th, limestone, 20 25th, shale, 56 26th, limestone, 34 27th white soft sandstone, 15 feet.
The following is a list of the different strata bored through in the course ot operations.ġst. It is, however, conclu ded from recent indications, that a supply of pure sweet water will be now obtained. At the present depth of 1,590 feet a pretty copious stream of sulphur water flows from the well, having precisely the taste of the Blue Lick water in Kentucky, although perhaps it is not quite so thoroughly impreg nated with sulphur. The object is to obtain a supply of other than limestone water which is the only sort that can be found by the ordinary channels in that vicinity.
It was begun in 1849, an d has been worked 1,590 feet, nearly half the depth of the celebrated artesian well in Westphalia, Germany, which is sunk 2,385. Louis, for a sugar re finery in that city. An artesian well of great depth is being bored at present at St.
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