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This mixture did not prove acceptable to the city, and the effort to supply the city with artesian water was abandoned. The water did not rise to the surface in any of these wells.

HARRIS COUNTY.

There are a large number of wells in this county, the city of Houston alone having between 75 and 100 in the corporate limits. The city's supply is derived from some twelve or thirteen wells, and each of the manufactories has one or more. The water is obtained from about six different water-bearing sands, the city's supply of over 4,000,000 gallons being derived from four of these strata. The table below gives the depths of some of the wells, with the flow and size of pipe:

No analysis of any of these waters is accessible, but the water is of excellent quality.

The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association has three wells, two of these being respectively 160 feet and 300 feet deep. The third, the deepest well in the city, had just been completed when I was in Houston. Depth, 850 feet; flow, 300,000 gallons per diem; size of pipe, 5-inch.

The stratum is described as "Twelve feet of water-sand, full of flint and quartz pebbles."

The Houston Ice and Brewing Company also has two wells, depth 142 feet and 158 feet, respectively. The 142-foot well, with a 6-inch pipe, flows 500,000 gallons daily.

The shallowest wells in the city are but 80 feet deep. These are said to flow only when the outlet or mouth of the well is at a low level, along Buffalo bayou. One of these wells, with a depth of 80 feet, pipe 6 inches in diameter, gives a flow of 50,000 gallons daily, and 175,000 gallons have been pumped from it in twenty-four hours.

An analysis of artesian water from Houston (depth from which the water was obtained not given) made by Wahl & Henius, chemists, Chicago, Ill., is given below: