Du Pont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : report, analysis, and medical properties of its water : with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith.

  • Smith, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence), 1818-1883.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Du Pont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : report, analysis, and medical properties of its water : with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    LOUISVILLE, KY. $kfort, ^nalgsis & primal |)ro}m1k$ of its Sinter, BY PROP. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, M.D. OP THE MED. Di:P. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, The Artesian Well, forming the subject of this report, CommeDec^- r. , . . , . „ , , . , , ment of t.ha, is one ot the most interesting objects of the kind to be enterprise. found in any part of the world. It was undertaken by Messrs. C. I. & A. V. Du Pont, of Louisville, prosecuted with great energy and large expenditure, and accom- plished in a much shorter time than any similar under- taking of the same magnitude. The practical skill of Mr. Blake directed the construction of the efficient machinery employed, and so successful was he in the superintend- ence of the operations, that not a single detention was experienced from the commencement to the termination of his labors. The citizens of Louisville were not aware of what was going on in their midst, until some time in the month of August, 1858, the public prints announced, that at the paper mill a jet of mineral water was pouring forth in vast volumes from a boring two thousand and eighty- six feet in depth. In giving an account of Du Font's Artesian Well, it will, no doubt, interest many to learn something as re- gards the nature and history of Artesian Wells. The principal difference between the ordinary and Artesian Well, is, that the latter is very much smaller in diam- eter than the former, and penetrates the earth to a much greater extent. In digging the ordinary well the instruments employed: