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Show City Doubles Water Supply Work On i:pcrlnunl Mell Develops lllg l'os4llilllfles In Sohlng Supply for both Culinary ami Irrlgntlnn Purposes. Somo gratifying and most Important results aro coming from tho city's experiment in sinking for water In the creek bed near the old Robinson mill site. When work wns stopped several months ago, tho holo was 8 feet deep. Last week, work was resume! re-sume! and this depth has been doubl. cd, with tho result of also doubling tho water supply, and today between ono and two second feet of water aro coming from tho well, as much as is ordinarily used in tho strcnniB that aro used to Irrigate tho city lots. Two sets ot eight Tcct staves havo been used and tho third Bet hns been stnrtcd. When tho fourth set has been used a dopth ot thirty rcct will havo been reached, and thoso In chargo or tho work predict that tho woll will then bo ablo to supply n continuous stream of at least three second feot, ns much as Is used in a big irrigation stream, at the rato that water Is being be-ing sold by tho Provo Rlvor Reserolr Co. water is worth $8,000 per second rcct. Taking this as a basis tho city fathcxs think that $160, their expenses to date, havo been woll spent. Tho water is tho well Is about ot tho same grado as that now going Into tho city system. Tho supply that may bo obtained from tho well will nbout equal that now being used In tho system. As It may be easily con vcyed Into tho city's settling tank, tho doubling of the city's cullnnry supply may bo said to bo an assured achievement. achieve-ment. Tho well has been going through gravel, but Is now in quick sand. . |
