Show Mr Chapman on Artesian Wells Water continues t be the burning question of the hour and anything and everything on that topic Is read with the keenest interest Aware of this fact a HERALD reporter yesterday buttonholed Mr Thomas G Chapman sec tary of thC F th-C Austin Manufacturing company one of the biggest well boring machine com paniesm the country who i1 making his headquarters for a few days with the Coop Wagon Machine Co who handle his roods here I I am looking into this question of water which seems to be n very serious one for I all Utah said Mr Chapman Of course 1 I am personally interested for in the search for water in other arid sections our company is frequently called on and our machint ry ha played a big part in tho development of dry sections in the west Does your company drill for wells No not usually We simply soil the machines to clubs of farmers communities I communi-ties townships and school sections They buy one or more machines and i they strike water of course it is beyond a strke oney value if they fail the loss falls very lightly on each WOnt is your opinion a to the chances of striking a desirable flow of artesian water in this valley say on the bench lends I regard the chances as very good i Denver has much the same lay as this locality lo-cality and there the well industry transformed trans-formed the place in a fow years Of course 1 some depth might have to be gone to perhaps per-haps 800 900 or 1000 feet but the flow and the head would be very strongnot to be II compared to the flowing wells we see today to-day which are really only surface water wells I think it would pay your city or I county or territory t spend a good sum of mnnov sinkinirwells on the benches Tho sinkimnvels I head obtained would be immense and if tho same success attended the venture a j elseI wuere me waterquestton would be solved Ii think the chances are bettr for finding water on the beuches than ou the level In I Dakota where they dtnt need water oneI tenth part as much as you do the legislature legisla-ture has grappled with the problem in earnest ear-nest and recognized the great part well I boring machinery plays in the problem by authorizing each county or township or I school district have forgotten whichto I buy a well boring machine at a cost not t exceed five tnousand dollars this machine with the parties to operate it is loaned out or leased to tho farmers in the district fir a certain length of time at bare cost and in this way many a poor man is enabled to secure se-cure a well on his land Then some five wells are encountered at a depth of four five or six hundred feet fvo Mr Odoll who was with Mr Chapman said that although the well boring industry indus-try was in its infancy here as yet a great number of Austin machines had been sold and a large number of wells were in opera tion In Tooele county there are most and Mr Burmester gets on his land a flow of four hundred or five hundred gallons a minute from wells sunk with this machinery ma-chinery Tho biggest flow encountered lately has been on the farm of President George Q Cannon where ara depth of 870 feet seventyfive gallons minute obtained fet seventfvo galons a werob tamed A fine one has also been made at Spanish Fork where at a depth of 400 feet a fortyfive gallon flow was obtained |