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Show SINKING NEW II WELLS FOR I COUNTY I Water is an important factor In B the building and maintaining of good ifl roads and the county commissioners IB at their meeting yesterday afternoon 9mm found that it is a problem they will B have to solve In Ogden canyon. In IH the building of macadam road much 11 water Is used in the rolling process 11 and nfter the roadway is completed - much water has to be used to keep , fM it in proper condition. 4M There Is no particular scarcity of MjH water in Ogden canyon, but it is not SM available at points where It is need- fM ed The question of attaching gaso- lM line engines to the sprinklers and iM pumping the water from tho river llM has been considered, but It is thought M by the commissioners that such ap- H paratus would not be practicable, and, M also, that it would be rather expen- j mWm slve. The question was gone over H thoroughly and carefully last evening, j H and it was Anally determined that 'Mw Road Commissioner Joseph Storey H shall proceed immediately to drive an H artesian wel lat what is known as mW the Rlrie farm, two miles above the MWM power dam, and that tho water se- MWM cured from tho well shall be piped MWM to water tanks a half mile apart as MWM far down the county road as the B power dam and that there shall be mWM driven another well In Huntsvllle, near MmW Mellerup's store, and piped to tanks MmW between Huntsvllle and the Rlriowell. H A four-inch casing will be placed H In the Ririe well. An ample flow is H expected to bo encountered at a depth B of 90 feet H The wel Ito be driven in Huntsvllle B will be largely experimental, but it B is thought that a good fllow of water B will be encountered at a depth of 400 B or 500 feet The Huntsvilel well has MWM been contracted for at $1 a foot, the H county to furnish the casing, and tho B Ririe well will be sunk for $15 a dav. H |