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Show I FIVE NEW ILLS ME I 10 BE DRILLED DY I OGDES! CITY The City of Ogden will add flvp new well a to tbe ty water supply in Og den Valley the locution of the wella having been decldpd upon by the city H, officials when they made .1 trip to 1 j the city wells yesterday afternoon in H' ; a body. The location of the five new H!; 1 wells will be about 1000 feet south of j tho present wells which are situated between (he South Fork and the Mid die Fork of the Ogden river. Thep art H, of city officials, headed by Minor T Samuel Browning, and the othet m m hers being Commissioners Chris Fly-care Fly-care and Miles L. Jones. City Engineer Joseph Tracy and Frank Packard, foreman of the municipal waterworks. ,! went over the ground en the city's properly and located the position. The new welly are to be drilled on account of the need for moro water, mucb water having been called for last year by the making of war gardens. Water for irrigating wai garden-; this year has made B very heavy demand on the city supply. It is not known what volume 01 water the Ave new-wells new-wells win add on account of ihe Impossibility Im-possibility of estimating the flow to be. tapped by the new wells, but the city offiri;iU believe they Will add materially ma-terially to the supply When the new wells are in operation the city will have thirty -four wells. The city officials have ordered that the present wells be washed out and the work will begin this week, after which the drilling of the new wells will begin. The city is expecting the drilling machinery to arrive in a daj HUc ji1 or two. |