Show A DRY TOWN DAMPENED In a recent communication from this place I spoke of the patience displayed by the people of this little town under the great reat lObs of crops and the inconvenience caused by the the unusual drouth common to a great portion of I this western region I am not a resident here but during my stay Olio business an and pleasure combined I have an opportunity of observIng some commendable characteristics of the people and take pleasure in saying that their self sacrificing self unity of action has in a very great degree solved the vexed ques ques- question question question tion of obtaining water for culi culi- culinary culinary culinary nary purposes In the town It was a common thing to hear good men menI I say Ive got to get better water I Ito to drink or move off It was a adaily adaily daily dany practice for numbers of little boys to be seen on the streets soon after break of day hunting for water to fill fin their little kegs and it was equally plain to see by the hang of bubbles under lip that the fun of trailing a little red gyred wagon did not commence at five o'clock o clock in the morning Sometimes good fathers would take a turn and it did seem seeman seeman seeman an anomaly to watch a six six foot six foot presIdent a director of irrigation haul the same small vehicle con con- containing containing con containing perhaps a gallon five oil can and a small churn hunting for that which he was supposed to direct and after tramping three or four blocks arrive a the edge of the and it as His Bis countenance would fall fan as suddenly as a summer awning and with an- an anxious anxious an anxious eye he woul would look around in inquest inquest inquest quest o 01 oj some someone one to fire a good morning at By and bye he arrives home with his vessels filled fined with what might be called herbal ex- ex extract extract ex extract tract which which h after the use of a strainer and a little alum will wt wet t where it goes This has been pa- pa pa patiently borne for a long longtime time but is today a thing of the past It was known t that upon land Jand owned by Mr B J there had once been a small spring of good water but for th the last Jast nine years no one had used it and t no nO- nO thing but a slight surface appeared a above ground Mr George Nixon our county Sheriff did not say much but kept upa up a constant think think- thinking thinking ing that it must be either water or a r He communicated move Me his N thoughts to Mr A Stephenson and the two sought friend frind r and for the negotiated right to search for the lost spring and aud pos pos- possess po sess sess BeSS it on condition that they conveyed to Mr Mr premises a inch half-inch pipe of water if sufficient to satisfy them was WaR obtained They formed a company of thirteen shares one being divided be between een meetinghouse the op Co-op store and the m meeting house They dug and in a few days were rewarded with a beautiful stream of pure soft water running twelve gallons per minute They now determined to convey this by Vi pipes pes to their several homes which lay upon the two blocks running through the centre of town Sever Sever- Several Severr Several Several r al started enquiring of different dealers as to the cost of cost of piping the best terms being obtained from the op CO op Wagon Machine Company of Salt Salt Lake City who got the ord order and the money for over feet of piping pining They commenced at the spring spring with two-inch two piping con con- conveying conveying it five hundred feet to a barrel sunk in the ground on the hill bill side To this barrel they attached eight hundred f feet fet et of one and a half inch pipe The first branch is to Mr a house Then they add added d one thousand five hundred feet of one and a quarter a i i- i ii 3 i AA pipe then two hundred bundred and fifty f feet et of one inch inch- inch and six hundred hundred- feet of three quarter pipe the rest is inch half-inch pipe This has all bet been put in place inside of five weeks from from tl tle t e time of commencing The boys went to work with a awill awill will There were no straight backs during the operations and feeling grateful they more than filled their contract with the donor of the spring and pushed the pipe with a nice brass tap on it right into his but but- butt buttery buttery t tery The company now have ex- ex excell excellent ex excellent j cell nt water right at their doors or inside meetinghouse their houses The meeting ori i house has it inside the vestry closet and it is not flavored with sheep dip In the op Co-op cellar for the first time time you can take a wet Bubby now finds amusement in Inputting putting his hand over oveT tM tap and squirting the water over his friend or any inquisitive canine that happens along Mothers are ale happy haplY and have given eiven the fathers fth the privilege of going to and taking in the fair while they will put their heads together tr trying to devise some plan to utilize newly newly foun found boon as a motive power for cutti cutting ng wood and save the faulty memories of the men All this ha happiness is iH produced by unity of action and at the trifling c cost coat of of five J seventy five dollars fifty and Dents Cents fifty each fifty dollars ollars cash and the bal bal- balance ba ance in ill labor All the mains were Jonly laid by the boys themselves and ant J only twenty-one twenty dollars donars of the above ve aboT amount were paid to a skilled me me- mechanic mechanic for fitting taps tape etc l There had previously been IBM r Wells welle dug duS in this little town of jC A Sri five families only one of whiCh i use today and could be cp t Might cheap as it is evident eviden h in the near future the th S 7 town will be supplied supplier J j With good water from springs which f fa quite te numerous above the town y ft P y another her company of thir- thir t teen isen have e broken ground and an i It t 1 order BUder for piping goes off by thi this mail The third company have be- be begun begun be gun fan to talk and will soon send their t 7 orders also My figures are ob- ob tamed brined from Mr JS Nixon xon and a all Speak in praise plaise of the good treat treat- J meat ment they received at the hands of o of f tile op Co-op Wagon and Machine Machini Machiner i r Elama Company ny and of the simplicity of o the the GIe job ob when once the start was wasi 3 i ode Blade e They simply drew a rough diagram diagram showing the branches they hey wished to make and the com com- JUly fay fitted them out with all the reducers stop cocks stop tape toL etc Twelve gallons of water per min min- minute ute may seem a small amount and left leA to run iun upon the would l scarcely have reached the first first firs bouse house bouse but hut conveyed in pipes it is i proved to to be sufficient for all th the pee le and animals kept in town and lots Jots of trees are being refreshed refreshed TA i by by b the e water running from these thes lTha T have have written this th thinking ng the tt 1 information maybe may be useful to others tJ similarly situated The rem remaining lining t g in this town are much nearer o ok k- k f at ax a Land hand and the expense will be beem y a em small My informant tel tells me that with his present ex- ex r r he could do the same work wort at a saving of one ona on hundred dollars dollars dollars- In ba in piping and another hundred dol dol- dol Jari In labor not understanding the laws 8 of hydraulics some of the might have been shortened Respectfully GEoRGE A BIRD HOLDEN Millard County Sept Sid 1889 |