Show DE DEVELOPMENT EN T WITH BORING WELLS STARTS Utah Agricultural College and Federal Department Drive Drie for Water Herald I uld Sp SpeciaL Logan Log AU Aug IS A A large well rig of ot tho the boring typo type has Just been placed at work in tho the vicinity of MUford Braver Draver county count by the experiment station station sta sta- 1 tion lion of the Utah Agricultural college and the United States department of agriculture ag w which ich are operating co in I experiments on underground water d de development do- do I for tor Irrigation purposes Th The Thi experiment station Is represented l in inthis n this work worl b by Pr Prof C. C 0 O W. W and the United States department of ot agriculture agriculture agri agri- culture by 11 L. L M. M 1 W Winsor Insor and nd C. C G. G Haskell who arc authorities on Irrigation tion problems A well which was begun some time ago o near Cedar City under the same plan n Is progressing satisfactorily aCcording ac according according aC- aC cording to Prof ProC who has just returned from there Th The Thu prospects pros pros- of ot a good s supply of ot water hero heru are so promising that the farmers have ha already organized ors and a rig of ot the same type as the one placed 1 at Milford has been bought and work be be- be I gun J This rig Is being run by a well i expert who was brought to the state by the federal representative to begin I the experimental well vell at Cedar City If the pumping experiments are arc successful successful suc sue at Codar Cedar City of or which Prof Prot Israelsen ha has little doubt he believes t s sIt It will mean the reclamation of or several sev sev- eral oral thousand acres of land that areat are aro areat at present unproductive but which with water ater will be some of or the beat best bestland land of oC that section seeton I U J CIl The experiment station Is receiving I calls for tor similar wells In various arlous parts of ur the tho state In Cache valley one on Ir Irrigation Ir- Ir company compan has purchased a aI awell avell I well vell rig rl- under the direction o of the thc ex experiment ex- ex station and government SD ex experts cx- cx ports verts and will do the tho pioneering Inthis Inthis in inthis this district at their own expense The wells which the experiment sta st- tion Is driving arc different from most Irrl Irrigation wells that have havo been dug due In Utah Wells ells previously pre sunk lor for irrigation purposes have been largely I of ot the tho artesian typo type usually being nut larger than six inches In diameter and andin in III most C cases smaller with the ordinary nary steel 1 casing The well that mc I experiment station and Irrigation atlon dl- dl I I I ii VII I UL u uncut jI ui 01 L agriculture g ture expect to play an Important part In the reclamation of tho the vast ast areas I of oC desert land In the tho state I Is about eighteen cig inches In diameter or larger and will permit the tho maximum Intake of water from an any place along the I pipe Lithe Pumping Pumping- Done DODe There has been hut but little pumping front wells for Irrigation purposes es up I t to tho the present Wells for irrigation havo consisted largely of or artesian wells which have not been as to Irrigators as they might h have havo LVe been beon because it Is In most cases possible t to get a good flow low only In the tho low- low lying lands that arc are not suitable to the best crop growth because of or the wet alkali condition of ot the soil solL Th same samo water can cnn be at about the same famo level on on the higher lands but the the- pressure pressur there Is not sufficient I In modi cases to rals the hI water to mv i- i iwi wi UJ Ol 01 l kind the well exports experts arc are planning to bore boic the big bib well wit with the porter porter- ate ate d pipe so o as to mako make it possible to pump water from Crom the point to It Is raised by artesian pressure pressure pres pros sure to the surface Other experimental wells will be sunk In various parts of Dt th the state as rapidly as possible While tho the wella ells now no under way ay are being driven thC tho experts are arc a s survey vey of or th thu st state te to determine th the location or of I other sections that givA promise to underground water development |