Iron County Record | 1951-11-15 | Page 1 | Drilling Begins on Test Well for City

Drilling Begins On Test Well for City The Davis-Alcorn Drilling company com-pany of California began work on a test well this morning, in the city's program of attempting attempt-ing to augment the culinary water supply. The company had contracted to drill a 10-lnch uncased well o a depth of up to 300 feet in the mouth of Schurtz canyon, and will rush the drilling to completion as rapidly as possible. The well is being driven to determine de-termine if sufficient water of a good quality can be located to Justify casing the well and putting put-ting in a pump to add the water to the city's present supply.