Show adb in had it has of late boon discovered that flowing wells of water can readily bo obtained by boring from one hundred to two hundred foot in depth in all that part of utah lying northerly about one hundred miles and southerly about two hundred miles from salt lake city and in the san pete valley tins part of the territory is thickly settled towns of from to 5 population are numerous and farmers and town residents are availing themselves of this abundant and easily obtained supply to the partial neglect 0 the old method of irrigating ditches A good flowing well will irrigate five or acres saving the of a yearly water tax and having the water daily at command to be turned on or off as desired nearly every residence in I 1 ticul city of provo has its own artesian well part of which is frequently utilized in a fountain in the front yard thi owing a copious jet thirty feet into the air while hydrants aro stationed at intervals in the garden barn and about the grounds for farmers and others it could also bo used where light power for churning sawing wood threshing etc is needed A stranger passing through a village and not knowing the source 01 supply would attribute it to a bostom of water works the water is turner off and on by faucets and iq easily controlled tho green lawns the luxuriant gardens and abundance of thrifty bruit and shade trees are in marked contrast to regions dependent on rainfall for their water supply those wells are being rabidly extended and it is hoped that much of the territory heretofore considered out of the roach of irrigation will soon bo brought under cultivation scientific american |