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I '! 1 Two !n One. A Now Fotiturt ! i3ii h Wills. i i ijulsii Craw fortl's Grot.p of j .Si", on U'clls. 1 i I A Correction. Tire at Ejihrain. 1 j Terrible Tcapon. iltc. 1 j Till; CRAWFORD WF.I I. I On Stiihlay, June ifcth, a Rei.!-; ikr reporter we.it bv an invita-: tion of Mr. John (.raivford to louk at; the primp of P.oii! wells on thatj gentleman's i;' .!:ire land. After a : delightful drive of yoine two miles, i we suddenly came upon the group, ' three of them in a straight line, pour ing forth their ct)stal waters in continuous con-tinuous streams. Wherever the refreshing re-freshing waters found their way, the sward was evenly groeti like velvet; in sharp contrast to those acres within with-in our vie-.v depending up-m it i Ration, Ra-tion, that were mottled ivitii alternate spots of good growth and barren patches. Mr John Whitlock, one CI the gentlemen composing the party, remarked as we gazed at them from the carriage, that he would give $500 to have one of those w ells on his town property. I On alighting from the carriage we J proceeded to examine tiie wells singi ly. They are seven in number ami j located about 120 fi. apart, audi almost forming a square, three on ' earn" side of the square, except on the j north where the two corner onesj were running, but work had not yet! been begun on the centre one. j These well i unitedly pour f n th ; a volume of water of not les than : 700 gallons per minute. The first we'll on the south ea:! corner has a djuble Ihnv. When the three inch pipe was down thirty six feet, a g 'xl flow of water was secured; but Mr. Crawford sank a second well, driving a two inch pipe' insi !e the first one sjvenly three feet, sinking a flow. The water from the t vo pipes, although both flowing from the same well, taste very ; differently; that from the lower strata being harder and mote pleasant than that brought up from nearer the sin face. The second well is a three inch pipe down thirty six feet, with a head. The third, like the first, is double; the three" inch pipe being down thirty-feet. These three form the uppermost line of the square. The fourth, well is double, thirty, and e'ignty-three feet. ; The fifth, orS. W. corner well, is a single one, and is down sixty-lhree feet. The sixth well is a two inch pipe, ShI IWRliriluwA' Sixty Tfet tile boring rod broke ami was left in tiie well; but notwithstanding that, the well has an excellent flow of water. The seventh, or N. W. corner, was running a good stream, Lnt'the machinery was located at thispuhit, and boring was to be resume !. In answer to a question c! the reporter re-porter as to how the certtv 1 locality local-ity of the underground streams were determined, Mr.Crawford sait!:"Now if I shouldtell you how I located this water you'rl laugh at i. " P.eing pressed press-ed for an answer, however, Mr.Crawford, Mr.Craw-ford, said: '-I used the forked willow called by some the "wizard stick. The two forks are held in the hands, with the main stem pointing upward; as the prospector 'for water passes over the ground, the stem, as drawn by some subtle magnetism, turns down toward the point of ground where the underground lake or stream is accessible." To prove the theory, thegentletnan conducted the party to another well not more than forty feet from the group they had been admiring, where he said the willow would not work, but the surface indications were so favorable that they sunk 150 feet, but got no water. Mr. Crawford then explained a theory lie hail with regard to the artesian -water in this valley and north, and the seeming luck ami chance that attended the attempts that were made to secure; it. T he last well examined, the dry well, had been driven the last sixty-feet through salt. He said he believed the vein of salt extended in a direct line from that point to the Salt Lake; and all attempts to secure water in this valley west of that line had failed. fail-ed. His theory was that the bed of salt held back the water which was unable to penetrate it, or seep 1 through, and this impregnable wall formed a vast undergroutnl resor-voir. resor-voir. Mr. Nathaniel Crawfotd, son of John Crawford, has two wells at some distance from those of his father. They flow two hundred gallons per minute, which is the largest stream from two wells in the vicinity of Manti. |