Show PRAIRIE DUG WELL WELLI 1 the most interesting thing I 1 hav mr sir limey harvey feen in to MAL A day aid od geer ot of lamont col recently wa wag well IL did you ever eel c a prairie dog do we one on it ln fin I 1 often bat that a chance occur occurs to explore the bornea tad and haunt C of I 1 these expeditions little 11 inhabitant A few billhi from my C of t the plain plains il awn wn a large tot to ot of men hid had been at wo work tit this lummer summer makels a deep cut for a hort short railroad up into the eulass it of mine mille is I 1 in cavie of the ob lob and I 1 went out a wk ago to see ee him and the work that bid had been done the taoist remarkable thine thing wai was the prairie dok dog well wells that had teen due dug into the cut went through a dog do til lac logo and being a deep one tome lowe forty feet fertit it went below the town there bi has always been a dl cuelon aut where here the prairie dog gets et hta big drink boie may ay be he goes ete mally dry illy their town towns are mlle miles away from any stream and an arid country where there to I 1 oo 00 e atmer ater at any time lud luale clent tent for the needs of an n animal requiring drink the overland 11 travel 11 en ere back in tb the 0 laya JAYS of pioneering aved to find the dox dog towns out on the prairies scores ot of miles from rom ur the stream streams there waa was no dew the air wa was dry ai an a bone the buffalo glass bould be parched brown and there be absolutely nothing to quench their thirst I 1 remember a discussion begun thirty years ago in the american N atu rs 11 t by or r sternberg Stern berf now eurton eurt surg on gorl xe on the and he argued la to favor of at the lb wh theory bw hut u t n near e s r 1 lament A m a n t la i e 0 hocalar I 1 a r X I 1 C ct I 1 t the h e wll I 1 t tf h cry r r T tb h net nest bole of the doga dogs were five or at sit alx lx feet deep but tour four or ave bolts went straight itra liht down a 9 deep ai as tho excavation had bad been made and evidently on inlo the water carrying caring faud raud beneath obese hole holes appeared to tie he used by the whole colony commonly and were a little larger thin than the boe bolts used for their icar homel washington star |