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Show Second Lee ton Well Looks Like Big Producer "It looks as if there's going to be -a lot more water in this well than in the first," Jack Zimmeiman, drilling contractor, said Wednesday night of prospects pros-pects for the secdnd city test well at Leeton. As he spoke, Mr. Zimmerman Zimmer-man said his drillers were down to 50 feet, the last 30 of which were water. Mr. Zimmerman said the well would be ready for a test pump this week-end. However, drilling drill-ing will continue until clay is reached, probably at from five to ten more feet. The second well will be about 5 or ten feet deeper than the first, and is being drilled through a thicker layer of gravel. grav-el. The sand, white in the first well, shows a reddish color in the second. Mr. Zimmerman's crew drilled Friday, Saturday, and Wednesday Wednes-day to bring the well to its Dresent stage. .Work was interrupted in-terrupted Monday and Tuesday by mechanical trouble. |