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Show WELL 700 FEET DEEP STRIKES SOLID ROCK .Fiiiirtlnii Well Now Supplies Wnler rorinerl Tumped Two Mites 1'rom I.elil Slat Ion. i Melvln Anderson having flnlfh'-d the railroad well at I.chl Junction and connected It with tho big water tank, ho now has a force of mon pulling up tho company's two mllo plpo lino botween bo-tween the I.chl nnd l.ehl Junction stations. This lino has been down over 20 years, r.nd supplied tho Junction Junc-tion tank wltli water from a flowlim well cast of tho I-ohl station. The Junction well Is 8 Inc'ios In dlamrtor. and Is down a' little over 700 foot where solid bed rock was J atruek. Alternate strntas of clay nnd snivel woro struck nil tho way down. I at dltiincp f from 15 to CO feet between be-tween thorn. In some of tho gravel Rtrrlns good fuiupllra of wn(,r ""' I rneountored, but none of tho streams j rnme nearer than 135 feet from tlio Mirfaco. Just before roachlnt? the bottom. 10 f'-ct of elny was encountered. encount-ered. In order to utilize tho water from all tho stratas, Mr. Andowon punched punch-ed holos 1-4 by 3-4 Inches in the sides ,nr tho casing whoro tho gravel wn encountered. Tlioro are about r.00 of those holes nt tlio dlfforoni wnter stations, and the supply thus ohtnln-d ohtnln-d Is j-o great that steady pumping or ir.0 gallons por mlnnto only lowers tho surfaeo of the wntor 40 feit The water Is of n good niinlUy for nngln-nnd nngln-nnd culinary purposes, and Is elevnt-,,1 elevnt-,,1 into the tank by means of an nuto-n.-tle eloctrle lump, that only oper-Mi oper-Mi when the water In the tl5 "" veereded to ft certain lovol. |