| Show WELLS FOR ROOSEVELT while we now boast of a population of over people peoli anu have lave an electric light and and telephone system plenty of water for irrigating purposes live among our business men and hive have waterworks water works but the water supply s for drinking and cooking purposes are not what they should be tah there re is I 1 s pure water obtainable in the great sandstone formation which underlies the deep soils of the roosevelt portion of the uintah basin has been unmistakably demonstrated during the past yar by the dozen or more flowing wells struck in and about this place these are all shallow wells so it is thought that thai by going to greater depths and tapping deeper water roes or cool subterranean pools p 0 that great pressure will be found back of them and give the required upward force two miles west of here john galloway has an artesian flowing four gallons a minute this well is down forty seven feet in the sandstone at cedarview Ced arview seven miles to the northwest there are five flowing wells they range in depth from a few feet where there are flowing springs to and feet feel they average about four gallons a min ute another well in the neighborhood of this town is that of W A miles which is feet deep and flowing three and a half gallons wood alexanders well of feet has a three gallon flow william walls well south of town is down feet with some water standing in the well but he lost his tools before a flow was secured the chas wallace well is feet deep and has a two and a half gallon flow the source of the roosevelt cedarview Ced arview flowing wells pressure is believed to be the great backbone of the twenty five miles to the north here is a great transverse range of to miles running east west in bavand dhatt and just the wyoming st state ate line along this range are arc found half a dozen of the highest mountains in the west here is kings peak the highest point in utah its elevation is feet nearly half A a dozen other snow capped peaks along this range jut iut into the sky line and feet great storms both win winter and summer sweep across this backbone of the the snows pack and lie in the deep ravines twelve months of the year the north side furnishes bear river which feeds great salt lake while the moisture which falls on the south side drains into the uintah basin it feeds the sources of the mountain streams which form the arteries of the canal system while that which sinks into the depths give the pressure found in in the new wells that are being bored near this city |
