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Show ARTESIAN WELL IS OPENED NEAR EILLMORE Salt Lake, Sept 1. Of more importance im-portance than the discovery of an ore body in a long-prospected claim is the news that came up from Fillmore, Millard Mil-lard county, yesterday of the opening of a wonderful artesian well on the farm of Brigham Thompkinson, a prominent landowner residing tfbur miles west of Fillmore. The flow, which was struck at the depth of 208 feet, carries in an eight-Inch eight-Inch pipe the hitherto unprecedented volume In that locality of 700 gallons per minute, and the water is of excellent ex-cellent quality. Experts estimate that this flow will furnish between two and three second-feet of water, an ample supply for the irrigation of more than 500 acres of land. The driving of artesian wells to furnish fur-nish water for irrigation purposes ln Millard county and other sections of the arid portion of Utah is no new thing, having long ago passed the experimental ex-perimental stage. Two years ago In the vicinity of Kanosh a well was driven that furnished a flow of eighty-nine eighty-nine gallons per minute. This was accounted a "big thing" and a dividend-payer on the initial cost many times over. Should tho 700-gallons-per-minuto flow prove permanent, as the indication aro that it will, the value of such means of reclaiming arid land is not easily computed. Charles W. Wattex a well-known raining and stockman of Kanosh, who is in Salt Lake and who received yesterday yes-terday news of the flow of the big well, said: Tho successful development of a gold mine could mean no more to the farmers of Millard county. In tho vicinity vi-cinity of the well are thousands of acres of arid land of the best quality qual-ity that becomes more than trebled In value when brought under water. Around Kanosh It Is Impossible to secure good land with water rights for less than $200 per aero. The encountering en-countering of such an unprecedented (flow of good water as that secured by Mr. Thompkinson means more than a big sum of money in his pocketit pock-etit will undoubtedly lead to the driving of numerous other wells in that locality, and If the men who put them down havo anything like tho good fortune of Mr. Thompkinson they will, at a comparatively small cost, add many thousands of dollars to tho value of their farms, Inasmuch as the land will produce record yields when proporly watered. |