Show FLOWING WELLS IN UTAH BULLETIN of the eleventh census to la devoted entirely to artesian wells fur for irrigation iu in the states and territories forming the western half of the united states including the dakotas kalpas nebraska and texas the t ajtal number of artesian wells in this area in june 1890 was the average depth feet average cost per well average discharge 54 gallons per minute 50 per cent used for irrigation average area for each well IS 18 acres total irrigated area acres acre california comes first with wells and utah second with 2524 in this territory small flowing wells are found in the lower part of cache valley in cache county and along the malad valley in box elder county along the eastern shore of the great salt lake in the western and weber county in davis davig county along the southeastern shore of the lake into tooele thoele county anti and in the neighbor neighborhood bood of grants ville large numbers of flowing wells exist they are found also alao it ii i i t the counties of utah juab sevier savier san BAD pete millard and salt lake IX in most if not all these localities the tubing or easing of the well passes through alternations of clay sand aej gravel the two lost last named layers being usually filled with water which from the basin like st structures ruptures of the eeds tb beds to is under pressure sufficient to bring it to or above the surface of the center cente ot the valley the well consists of a pipe from to 4 inches in diameter forced down to the water bearing stata a distance of to feet tte toe lower end of the pipe is perforated for the purpose ot of admitting the water which Is in usually clear cool palatable and suited for domestic dome atio uses it is in found occasionally heavily im with mineral and in some cases baity salty comparatively few wells are used for irrigation in the broad sense benie that is tor for field crops but a great majority of those not near house sor barns are in pastures paa tures or meadows meadow occasionally casio nally used for pasturage deep drilling that la beyond or feet so ao far as has haa been ascertained has haa been unsuccessful in obtaining fresh freeh water with increased depth the water in liable to be brackish brac kieh or even heavily charged with saline matter in some of the wells welli along the esbern eastern shore of salt lake inflammable gas gag has hae been found and a small mall amount of pe has been reported |