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Show : Christensen Hill Only Small Flow Obtained Hut Com mlttee Hopes for More Steel CnN tton for Experiment Well l'urclin. From twelvo to llfteen men hnv . been buBy tho past two weeks digging "J,", -ttilOO rod trench along tho Hldo of tl rfj County Road under tho brow or l; hlllciiBtof the II. N. Christensen farm, I northwest of town. Tliey liavo reach- I id a depth of about seven feet and developed a smnll flow of water, pro. B bably 100 gallons per minute, which B It la thought will Increase, to a fair B stream when tho Irrigation season Wi guts well under way. When the trench If is completed as far as now eommenc-I) eommenc-I) cd, it will attained a depth or 13 feet It next to the hill, but this depth may 1 not bo attained now. Later, however, I; It Is Intended to tunnel into tho hill, Ij and it Is hoped thus to get a b It stream and drnlu a lot of swamp) Ij land, I In digging tho trench tho men en countered first three feet of grave on top or a rather solid clay form tlon, under tho clay Is found a quick- Hand mixed with clay. Tho depth t J this Is not known, but It has man ! small holes through which wat-comes, wat-comes, Indicating n good supply fron below. The success of thin venture Is yet In much doubt, and cannot be deter mined until the, Irrigation season I over. The City Collifell Committee, hr lug In chargo tho sinking of the, experiment ex-periment well In tho old creek bod this week purchased a steel cuIbhoii four feet high and about six foot I diameter. This wU bo sunk In th bottom of tho well, and it is thnug' that tills will enable the men to g past tho atrotn ot quick sand tin stopped progrosa when a deptti of 1 feet had been reached. Work on slnV Ing the well will now bo resumed. ... f |