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Show BIG ARTESIAN WELL FLOWS AT FILLMORE "Strike ' Will Reclaim Hundreds of Acres of Productive Land. Of more Importune? than, the discover), of an ore body in a Ions-prospected clsin is the news thin came up from Klllmove Miliary! county, yesterday of the openlnfl of a wondtutul artesian well on tlie fartv of Brlahum Thompkinson, a promt neut landowner residing four miles west oi Fillmore. The flow, which was struck at t lie depth of 20$ feet, carries In an eight-inch eight-inch pipe the hitherto unprecedented volume vol-ume in that locality of 700 gallons pet minute, and the water Is of excellent quality. Experts estimate that this Mow will furnish between two and three second-feet of water, an ample simply for the irrigation of more than 500 acres of land. The driving of artesian wells to fur-n fur-n ish wa t er Tor. i rrlga t ion pu rposes In Millard county and other sections of the arid portion of Utah Is no new thing, having long ago passed the experimental stage. Two years ago In the vicinity of Kanosh a well was driven that furnished fur-nished a flow of eighty-nine gallons per minute. This was accounted a "big thing" and a dividend-payer on the initial ini-tial cost many times over. Should the 700-gallons-per-mtnute flow prove permanent, perma-nent, as the indication are that it will, the value of such means of reclaiming arid land is not easily computed. Charles V. Watts, a well-known mining min-ing and stockman of Kanosh. who Is in Salt I,ake and who received yesterday news of the flow of the big well, said: The successful development of a gold mine could mean no more to the farmers of Millard county. In the vicinity of the well are thousands of acres of arid land of the best quality that becomes more than trebled In value wlien brought under water. Around Kanosh it is impossible to secure good land with water rights for less than J-Oft per acre. The encountering en-countering of such an unprecedented flow of good water as that secured by Mr. Thompkinson means more than a big sum of money in his pocket It will undoubtedly lead to the driving driv-ing of numerous other wells in that locality, and if the men who put them down have anything like the - good fortune of Mr. Thompkinson they will, at a comparatively small cost, add many thousands of dollars to the value of their farms, inasmuch as the , land will produce record yields when V properly watered. |