Well Drilling Notes.

Well Drilling Notes.

—T. H. De Saussure, engineer of the State Lunatic Asylum at Milledgeville, Ga., sends us the following particulars of drilling the well at that place; “The contract for drilling the well was awarded to Suakard & Co. of Bradford, Pa., and drilling was begun and continued by them to a depth of 964 feet with much skill and ability, when it was stopped by the trustees of the asylum, the fund appropriated by the legislature for the purpose having been expended. The bore of the well is twelve inches for 200 feet, thence eight inches. At eighty-five feet, a ledge of rock was struck. Twelve-inch drive pipe was put down to this, and the drilling continued. The ledge was found to be but twenty feet thick, the underlying stratum being a soft, clayey substance, something like the alluvial deposit on river banks. This was fifteen feet thick. At 112 feet granite was struck, which may be 100 miles thick for aught we know. Certain it is, the drill never got out of it again. Progress was very slow, some days eight inches only being made. Again as many as seven feet would be drilled in twenty-four hours. As to the quantity of water it affords, I cannot say. We were hoping for a flowing well. We are now trying to get some one to come and test the well for us by pumping, but we are so far away from the centres we have not yet succeeded in getting any one.”

—S. Swanson, who is putting down an artesian well at the Humboldt mill, struck water to-day, and the result is the strongest flow known in this vicinity. Thousands of barrels of water are going to waste every hour. The water is very soft. The well is now 415 feet deep, and will go down about 100 feet farther. The flow is considered very remarkable.—Minneapolis Star, January 28.