Word: artesians
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...Sheriff of Baker County, L. Warren Johnson. It was an historical setting. For it was here that former Sheriff Claude Screws twenty years ago dragged another Negro, Bobby Hall, by the bumper of his car into the next county and then around the same courthouse. Stopping at the Artesian well located at the eastern edge of the courthouse, Screws beat Hall to death...
...trouble comes partly from the artesian wells and methane gas taps that weaken the substrata on which the city is built. During storms the lagoon's water tears at the ancient buildings. Similar erosion is caused by the waves of the numerous motorboats, patronized by those too impatient to use gondolas...
...stomachs distended by bilharziasis. Young girls in ankle-length dresses go gracefully by with water jugs balanced on their heads. Most will be married at 15, lie on their deathbeds at 40. Many peasants still drink from the filthy canals, scorning the "weak" water supplied by a new artesian well. Life is so cheap that a professional killer can be hired for ten dollars, and it is not uncommon to see a gunman walking casually down a dusty road holding a large, white sunshade in one hand and a gun in the other...
...five U.S. towns so named by parched settlers for the artesian wells that sustain them. The others are in Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi...
...Phillips started buying his 19,600 acres along the west shores of Salton Sea for $2.4 million, divided it into 54,000 lots, most of them about one-third of an acre. Thus far, 11,000 lots have been developed with streets and water (from a 658-ft.-deep artesian well), and close to 7,000 have been sold despite their high ($2,000 to $4,000) price tags...