ARTESIAN WELLS ON THE GULF COAST.
Artesian borings are being extensively used in Galveston for securing water. The city stands on a sand island several miles Irom the mainland of Texas, and so far from any proper fresh water streams that could furnish a water supply that its people until recently have been wholly dependent on the rains. As a consequence, in seasons of drought there has been great suffering by the people and their domestic animals. Within the last year or two, however, borings have been extensively tried, with so much success that the city authorities are now contemplating a resort to artesian wells for a public supply and have caused one well to be bored. It has reached a depth of 488 feet, and throws a stream of water the size of its pipe to a height of eighteen feel above the suiface of the ground.
In mentioning this, The New Orleans Picayune remarks that the artesian borings in that city and along the Gulf coast east of there, added to those at Galveston and on other parts of the Texas coast, prove that there are enormous possibilities in these subterranean waters for the people in the Southern lowlands.
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