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Show MILFORD CITY STARTS NEW WELL Preston Bradshaw of Hurricane, Hurri-cane, with a motor-driven cable tool rig, is drilling a new well for the City of Milford, on the Library Park hill next to the Masonic Temple. Decision of the city council to drill the new culinary water well came after an older well, located back of the Jefferson Mercantile Co. warehouse, became so sanded the water was deemed unusable. The well will be 16-in, in . diameter, di-ameter, and about 500 ft. deep. At present the drilling crew is making about 50 feet a day, but the average will be about 30 feet each day, Mr. Bradshaw said. He expects to complete the drilling in two to three weeks. I |