Artesian Currents.

Artesian Currents.

Prof. A. R. Prescott of Boston, the water diviner, has disposed of the artesian current discovered by him at Port Tampa City, Fla., to Messrs. Prescott & Fitzgerald. The estimated depth of this artesian current is 750 feet, with a capacity of 400 horse-power and a flow of 100 cubic feet in its bed. When it is tapped the stream will raise about twenty-seven feet above the surface in a ten or twelve-inch pipe, and even this quantity of water flowing from it, the professor thinks, would not perceptibly reduce the current’s electrified capacity or condition of force.

Professor Prescott has given a great deal of attention to the artesian currents through Florida for two years past. He has carefully tested and worked up the currents leading to the most noted sulphur springs, and to many of the flowing wells, among which he referred to the flowing well at Sarasota in a recent conversation. This well was found to be well adjusted to the centre of a powerful artesian current passing under that place, although the location of the well was mere chance, and the professor thinks that a divergence of 100 feet on either side of the current iine would have found a dead well. He further thinks that the rock above the current is cracked some 300 feet above the current, as the pipe extends only 400 feet deep and the bed rock situation is the same 700 feet or more below the surface.