Show I IMAY MAY SEEK W AIER I IN IRON COUNTY State Land Board Will Be Urged to Drive Experimental Experimental Experimental mental Well HAVE MONEY FOR WORK PREVIOUS EFFORTS WERE MOST SUCCESSFUL Request has been made of ot th the state board of ot land land commissioners ione 1 to drive an experimental well in Iron county in section 34 south range 13 west of ot Salt Lake meridian and the matter will be taken t up at the meeting of ot the board early next month There is still something more than in the treasury tr of ot the land board from the 1500 appropriation of ot the last legis legislature legislature legislature lature for this t ls work and the money may be applied applied for the Iron county well Whether to dig deeper on the Levan Loan ridge Juab county will also be dis discussed discussed discussed I cussed by b the tle land board The well was sunk feet teet before water was I found It had been teen hoped hat that a flow could be developed but not a sufficient pressure was encountered to force the water out of the hole and out of the surface There was Wall however enough to fill fiU the well about half of ot the distance so that it could easily be pumped out the rest of ot the way and furnish the water Ar Are Expensive The well was sunk by Frank Moore for the state and cost The con contract conI contract tract was walt for a well feet teet deep and I it was as feared that water would toot not be struck as he kept going deeper and deeper But when he had all but com corn completed the contract the water was reached It is on the Levan ridge Just out of ot Nephi Juab county and the finding of or water wat at all has proved most moat mo t beneficial to the s Thousands of oC acres of land in this part of ot the state have been used for lor dry dr farming but the chief trouble was in getting water It was for this reason that the last few legislatures have appropriated 7 for the work of digging experimental tal wells in various parts of the state An effort was made to raise the money mone for the work at Nephi but this tills has evidently failed and tho the request has come to the land board to go deeper Digging the well feet cost cot the state just 5 a foot and it will likely like cost more than 7 i a foot to go fro deeper The Theland ThEland Theland land board fears that if the well is sunk Bunk deeper a subterranean channel might be 00 struck where there is no water at atall atall atall all and thus the flow now found will drop down through the shaft and run runoff runoff runoff off thereby losing the water already found It may be however that an additional appropriation will be made I by the board to continue the work I to Farmers Fanner The development of ot a running well wellin Wellin in this land of Q no water will mean thousands and thousands of dollars to the state and to the tIte owners of land as the acre acre can then be irrigated to an extent and ad not Q farmed a at pres present ent nt 1 tJ lh t r p with th the wa water ter er erThe The first experimental well dug by bythe b bythe the state was in Dog valley valle also alio in Juab county where water has lIas been struck and half halt fills the well This cost the state nearly Another was Tas sunk in Salt Walls valley aUe Box Elder county and still another in Cedar val valley aI aIle Icy ley le Tooele county In all aU of the wells water has ha been struck where water had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been ben found before but running water has not no yet iet been encountered |