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Show A GREAT Gl'SHEK. The Xorthwestern "Financier" on the Gas Company's Artesian Well. Under the headiug, "A Great Gusher, the Largest Artesian Well in the World," the last issue of the Xorthipettem Financier says: Since Noah's deluge there has not been known such an outpouring of water as that which came upon the earth from the subterranean subter-ranean caves uorthcast of the city of Salt Lake recently. The Salt Lake Natural Gas company at 900 feet from the surface struck the fountain of the great deep, aud a torrent of water ushered ush-ered forth with terrific force, and so mighty was the stream that the workmen at the drill had to flee for their lives to avofd being swept away before the cataclysm. This unusual demonstration of aquatic nature na-ture is deluging the country northwest of the city for miles about and there seems no way to repress this artificial outlet to the subterranean flow. The company was sinking a well with a view to striiking a reservoir of natural gas, but instead they met the bursting stream of an earth-found ocean that shot high into the air a volume of water, the capacity of which is beyond calculation; no such 6tream of water has ever before been discovered in this part of the country. The discovery settles the fact that there is an abundance of water underlying the entire en-tire valley foi irrigating purposes." Business Briefs. - T. G. Webber, the superintendent of Z.C. M.L, has gone east ou business. Moses Peterson, tne leading merchant of the San Juan country, is in town. Mr. Fyler or the Walker Bros. & Fyler company, left for the east today ou a business busi-ness trip. |