Show WATER IN ABUNDANCE Chester People Get Supply Beyond Their Expectations Mt i Pleasant Pleasant April Apri 29 The Tho enterprising people of Chester Cheter a town located in this the center of this valley vale have had their efforts in searching for water wat r for irrigation tion Uon purposes re reward ware i j oven even beyond their greatest expectations For some sometime sometime time work lass has ha been under way there on ona ona ona a well wel which was being put down In the hope that a good flow fow of surface water would be discovered at a depth which would admit admi of it being easily pumpe out in large Jarge quantities and amid used for irrigating IrrIgating Irrigating gating the surrounding land This week water was found at a depth o 0 only eighteen feet Just as the time shovels were vere entering a strata of gravel gravEl A pump op 01 operated orated by a steam engine egine was at hand han for forthe v the uros and amid was immediately started It I was run ur U to Its Is full ful ca ea capacity and threw from the time well wel water amounting to over ISO 18 gallons per min main minute ute mite Even Een this timis amount did not empty empt the well wel or cause caUSt the supply to diminish perceptibly Another and larger pump has been been ordered and will wi be b placed in commission at once Those These who are do doing doing doing ing the tho work have no idea idea how much water can bo be b thrown from the well wel when a pump that can handle all al there is in it itis Itis itis is at work The stream new novu no being pumped out can in the opinion of those familiar with th the soil soi of that district irrigate Irrigate very nicely about ten acres acra The rne intention is to put other wells wels down don as soon as a possible in different parts of the town and by b this means secure enough additional water to supply the time entire dis district district district entre The present well el is on the ranch owned by b Brothers Broth r and they are for the sinking of the time well vei at atthe atthe atthe the time An attempt of the same kind was made several years year ago but it was abandoned on account of the time ma machinery machinery chinery ry in use uso being insufficient In A young oun boy who has been for some sometime sometime time an inmate of the Sanpete SanI te county count in infirmary infirmary r attempted to escape from that institution yesterday esterday He eluded the keepers at mat the farm and made his way ay ayas as far Car as s this city olty where he lie was cap tamed by b the pollee and held hel for the time au authorities authorities |