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Show SPffll WELL. a Fountaiu of Water a Hun-dred Hun-dred Feet m the Air. SLET AT WOEK OH HIS BOOK. Sector of Tishes-Her Heart Be-lieged-A General Grist of Information. artesian well at Charleville, on ffarrega river, Queensland, is the .jgtand most remarkable instance of natural resources of marvelous Au-" Au-" Xhe well is situated quite near 4T station, but in one of the t unlikely places tbat could haTe Imagined. Who on earth would expected that this artesian well, 'l, is the best in the world, or at all ntsvields the largest amount of water, Lkon the top of a sandy hum-V hum-V yet so it is. The site was chosen hehTdraulic engineer, J. B. Hender-for Hender-for 'reasons only known to himself, which hare been amply justified, rosins; the swampy flat leading to hammock, attention is drawn to a channel cut through the drift sand, it is explained that the overflow of er had done this ere the apparatus controlling it had been obtained. The j itself looked a harmless enough kind hing. It mSht nave boen ?bm for iter high standpipe placed in an idi-miition idi-miition in the bottom of a hole sixty pventy Tards long, thirty broad and feet deep. But a moment's obserya-ghowed obserya-ghowed that the harmless looking l(jpipe had made the hole. As a mut-af mut-af fact, the water when it was tapped iedup in such a volume that it washed ,t the sand around the boro in a few ntesand cleaned out the foundations to derrick and threatened to wreck whole contrivance. If they had not a plug in it pretty soon it would have lied Charleville into the Warrega. top of the pipe there has been fixed u it angle bend, so that tha water can nmed in any direction, 'hen tho visitors arrived at the bore as seen that the water was trickling tinv stream from this bend into the fty tand below, but in a few minutes scene was changed. Mr. Woodley, the Queensland Boring company, . h sunk the well, opened the valve, with every turn of the wheel the stream thickened and deflected a its former perpendicular course, dually the volume of water increased began to roar through the pipe al-t al-t like sleam blowing from a safety e. Erery moment the sight became e interesting, and when the valve fully opened it was a spectacle to ider at. Rushiug from the bore by uwn force, ejecting itself for a dis-e dis-e of thirty feet in a horizontal di-ion, di-ion, came a column of water white ilk in appearance. In a second or it churned up the sand before it into ee colored mud. iiis wan the first singular thing no ifor the falling white torrent, driv-More driv-More it, as it seemed, the brown I, produced a whimsical effect, like pouring of milk and coffee into the id cup at the same time. But this not last long. In a few moments a o pond was formed, which filled up il the level of the surrounding ground reached, and then there was seen at a rivulet and then a stream rushing n the hillside. When it is said that well fills a 400 Rallon tank in thir-seconds thir-seconds it can readily be understood all this did not take long. The e was nest closed and the right an-jend an-jend removed. On the second open-of open-of the .valve there was witnessed a tacle at once beautiful and majestic, which was well worth the long jour-hom jour-hom Brisbane to see. Tho water in a snowy column, like a stalagmite fool, to a height of thirty feet aud fnded in a hissing torrent so heavy close as to quite obscure the pipe it- it w as a marvel of beauty and a ire that will never be offaced from neinories of those who witnessed it. bsequently a nozzle one inch in di-towas di-towas attached to the pipe, and, the water was turned on, it as-'i as-'i it a height of nearly 100 feet, reins re-ins to earth in a heavy shower or fating in mist clouds, through which imbows played with an effect that beautiful as it Was wonderful. It 1 d that the visitors would never tire ag at it. They simply stood and Hardly saying a word, for in the eof this marvelous phenomenon emed poor and commonplace, ine mind simply gave itself up to :J! wonderment. Queenalander. La. S. L. COLORADO iQENCT L0UI8IASA STATE LOT- ' TERI C0MPAHT. Tickets sold and Information furnished. Tel em-anliic reports n-celved the same day of drawing and furnished to all who purhcase Hckets of me. Official list of all draw tig fur-nished fur-nished on application and mailed to all out of t, wiuiu" liaiers. I will cash prizes ht.l.m.y be drawn by tickets drawn by me. in full with- V. O.Box 41. Turf Exchange, Mouth lJ"eW": |