186 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
GRANT.
A four-inch well now owned by Mr. Charles Christiancy at Grant is the only flowing well in the vicinity. The well is 350 feet deep and is cased 90 feet. It was drilled in 1896 by Messrs. Near and Taylor. The principal supply of water is said to come from a depth of 256 feet.
MALABAR.
Several deep wells have been sunk at Malabar. They vary from 300 to 390 or more feet in depth. The principal use of the water is for irrigation purposes.
MELBOURNE.
At Melbourne a record of several deep wells was obtained. Mr. W. T. Wells owns an artesian well which was sunk by Capt. Alexander Near in 1898. This well is 389 feet deep and four inches iti diameter. The pressure as shown by the pressure gauge on March 15, I9IO, was eleven and one-quarter pounds. The surface elevation was given as about 26 feet above the level of the water in Indian River and this elevation together with a pressure of eleven and one-quarter pounds would give the well a head of 51.9 feet above the river.
The six-inch well of Capt. J. S. Sammis is 400 feet deep and is cased about 73 feet. The pressure of this well was taken on March 15, I9IO, but since all-connections to the well could not be shut off the full pressure could not be obtained. The reading, however, was i i pounds, which was a sufficient pressure to cause the water to rise 25.4 feet above the surface or about 47.4 feet above the river, the well being about 22 feet above the river.
A three-inch well owned by Mr. Win. R. Campbell near Melbourne, is used for power purposes and for irrigation. The water from the well turns an overshot wheel which runs a pump, pumping water from a surface well. The surface water is soft and is preferred to the hard sulphur water of the deeper well. The well is 385 feet deep and was sunk by Messrs. Near and Taylor in 1895.
A well one mile west of Melbourne, owned by Mr. H. P. Bowden is six inches in diameter and is 400 feet deep. The well was sunk by Capt. Alexander Near in I907. The pressure as indicated by the pressure gauge March 14, 1910, was 12 pounds, or a head of 27.7 feet above the surface. The surface elevation of the: