Beaver County News | 1917-08-10 | Page 1 | Water Struck at Lund

WATER STRUCK AT LUND The "River of Doubt" that Douglas Doug-las White, industrial agent of the Salt Lake Route, has maintained existed ex-isted under the Escalante valley, of which Lund, Utah, is the center, has been discovered. The discovery reveals that more than 250,000 acres believed , to be hopelessly arid soil may be brought under cultivation by irrigation. For several years Mr. White has insisted that beneath the valley there was an underground river. His friends named it the "River of Doubt." He finally had the opportunity to dig a well and went down 300 feet without with-out signs of enough water to fill a pigmy's thimble, and as it went down foot by foot, hopes went with it. Railroad officials wanted to give up. but Mr. White insisted they go deeper, with the result that at a depth of 350 feet water has been found at Lund which flowed 600 gallons- a minute. Other wells may be sunk in the valley and make widespread irrigation possible. Herald-Republican.