150 Years 1887-1901 The Dalles THE DECADES OF HISTORY PART THREE OF THE DALLES CHRONICLE'S TEN-PART SERIES. April 27, 2007 Page 6 NO BLACK DIAMONDS FOUND JUST PURE ARTESIAN WATER FAILURE OF A COAL PROSPECT DEVELOPS SOMETHING ALMOST AS GOOD - On Chenoweth creek an effort was made about three years ago to find coal, but the hole was abandoned after a certain depth failed to develop the existence of the black diamonds. A later attempt was again made by Messrs. Nichols, Roland and others, and when at a depth of 51 feet the operators were surprised to find a stream of pure artesian water forcing itself up to the top the six inch pipe and spouting up into the air for a few inches above this. This decides the long-mooted question that artesian water in Eastern Oregon is not only a possibility, but a glowing reality, and will encourage effort to find larger bodies of it, which it is probable [sic] can easily be done when a greater depth is tried. If artesian wells can be struck it means the reclamation of thousands of acres of good agricultural land that wants only moisture to be as fertile as the country overflowed by the lower Nile. April 21, 1893. Earline Wasser Soldiers' Angels www.soldiersangels.org Incoming and Outgoing messages protected by Trend Micro Pc-cillin program