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Show SODA WATER WELL IS FOUK It Is in the Philippines, and Exptrti Declare It Is Carbonized by Nature. Many queer things have been recovered re-covered by the drill since and bif.:; Colonel Drake discovered that C could be obtained by the artesian p cess, but the most unique oce Is t:: recently struck In the Philippines. :: is located In the town of San Fen:;: do, on the island of Tlcao. At ti; depth of 405 feet an enormous veia .'. water was struck, with such a gi pressure that the volume was thr 80 feet In the air. It was only bj a-erting a-erting every possible effort that s small flood was averted. The flow wis finally checked, however, aad the titer ti-ter directed out and dowiretri through two small pipes, thro:.: which it continues to rush with Hi-diminished Hi-diminished force. Samples of the water taken si- that It Is heavily charged with a:-bonlc a:-bonlc acid gas and appears and tts'.'i like ordinary soda water, but anaiji i Is not yet completed. The man in charge of the dri:::.;. who has had 40 years' experience !j drilling artesian wells in many ps"J of the world, maintains that he l- never seen or heard of the equal e! the Tlcao island phenomenon. |