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Show DEVELOPING OUR I ARTESIAN WATER I Department of Agrirulture nnd I Utah Experinemt Station (iives Assistance. H EXPEERT SUPERVISION AND WELL RI; FREE Farmers Kequired to Furnish Casing, M Hauling, Inridentalx and Common M Labor Necessary Los; of IK-lnch M Well Driven for Thomas J. Join- M The development of irrigation H wnter by pumping has interested en- M gineers and farmers for some few years, but to date there are but few M sections of the United States which M hnve acomplished any thing in this H work, most of this having been done in Texas, Ixmsiann and California in H the west. H However, enough experimental H work has been done in the west to H make the venture safe in valleys hay- H ing deep lake or river filling. H Due to the foresight of the irriga H tion speirnlists of the U. S. Dept of I Agriculture nnd of the State Agricul- H tural College it is being given a care- H ful test in Iron County. H Messrs. Haskell and Cmiv, i m ployed H by the U. S. Department of Agricul- H ture, Bureau of Roads and Rural En- H giueering, are located with us to give local development the benefit of their H experience in Texas, California, I.ou H isaae and other developed pumping M sections, as well as their technical H training. H The State Experiment station con- H siders it of such Imporance among itn H many problems of the state, to ex- H pent! a liberal sum (exact amount not JM yet decided) to be matched by an t equal amount by the l.pt. f Agri . H culture. I This then becomes the plan o' cu- H operation. Kiual sums of money by H the State Experiment station and I'. S. I). A., Bureau of Roads ond Rural H Kngineering, time of Mr. Haskdl, en- H gineer, and Mr. dray, mechanic, Bu M rcnu of Roadi, attention of U. A. C. irrigation specialist and geologist, I Prof. Peterson, in location and gener- H nl supervision of work, and the farmer M on whose ground the test well is lo- M cated, who furnishes all materials left M in the well, labor, hauling of mater- ' ---H ials and incidentals. He furnishes his M own pumping plant. M With a few months of work, char M ucterized by delay on account of bad i weather and slow movement of or- M dered materials, a healthy interest is M : manifested in the county. Mr. Has I kell and the County Agent have listed M II applicant and interested farmers M in the county. H A test well has been sunk on the M farm of T. J. Jones in Cedar valley, H ' near the Jenson farm, for the first " well. It will be representative of a M large part of the valley. M The concrete pit is now being sunk, Hl the tools and most of the materials aie in Lund for the well. The driving H of the Ill-inch casing will very soon H be ill progress. H Log of the well follows: M 0 to 18 feet, silt and 'and. H 18 to 16J feet, coarse sand and fl gravel (water bearing.) HH ln.f) to 41 feet, intermittent saod flH and clay strata, about H feet of sand. H II to .ot; feet sand. SH 88 to iil feet, sand ind clay inter- BsW mittent, I feet of sand. 8)H 84 to i!7 feet, coarse gravel. B to I'eet. line sand. H 80JI to 7.r feet, clay and sand -1.7 B n to H0 feet, sand. H Mil to 88 feet, clay. H H.'i to 88 feet, sand. H So u, .) feet, gravel. B 8fl to 84 feet, sand a ul gravel. M 84 to 108 feet, gravel and still in Mr. Jsgnesj A. Anderson has the ae- HJ eptance of the second test well on the west side of the valley. H COUNTY AGRICULTURAL Ad'T. H |