Eureka Reporter | 1906-02-02 | Page 3 | Digging Well to Drain a Bog

digg ng well to dra n a bog an ingenious yankee who lives on the west coast of florida adopted a novel method to drain a bog on his plantation he put down a four inch well in the middle of his bog deep enough to tap the water bearing gray el A nice flojo of water was encountered which rose in the well nearly to the surface As soon as the top of the pipe was pushed down to a level with the bottom of the bog the water in the pond rushed down into the well and passed off through sub channels in a few hours the bog was trained the land has since been plowed and is now a able truck farm scientists declaim that wet lands in many sections of the country can be drained by this simple method care must be taken notto the well to ml up with rubbish which might impede the ingress of the water