Artesian wells seemed to have changed the calculus regarding the desert. Unlike the end of the 19th century, farmers in the early decades of the 20th drilled what seemed like an endless supply of ...

The soldiers drilled an artesian well, but wouldn’t drink from it because of its strong sulfur smell and taste. One man’s account said it made you want to pull your hair out and run.

If they do hit an artesian well, there's a chance that water will burst out and start draining. "Seeing a geyser rush out on the first borehole that we drill at the beach club means that we're ...

South of Murtaugh sat a now-forgotten town that banked on two 110-degree water wells — and lost. In 1895, James Bower drilled two water wells for his livestock east of Dry Creek at the base of ...

The fourth well to be drilled in PEL 106 this year, Paprika-1 was spudded on 11 June is expected to take the Ensign Rig-30 about 21 days to drill.