Show TEST WELL FOR LUND dry farmer rs and ald others other band together to drill for water and now comes word for our railroad neighbors beighl neigh bort rt trat they have banded themselves together to drill for flowing or subterranean water the news is interesting and the people of the entire county will wish 0 our ur west welt county friends all success last L week a meeting of the dry farmers of lund and vicinity were called together in order to d discuss escuss the project of driving a test tea well 1000 feet or r more to determine whether or no not t there is ia flowing watter in that locality of sufficient volume to warrant the sinking of other wells by farmers owning land there the response atas as gratifying and a goodly number of the farmers met and organized a company with thy the following gentlemen as officers H J doolittle president A J yoeman vice president W frank secretary and treasurer these gentleman will serve without pay and will incur no expense except for absolute necessary traveling expenses in making investigations the following gentleman contributed the amounts set opposite their names same to be used in prosecuting the work the money so contri buted to be placed in a bank to be used as needed in the purchase of material for drilling H F 00 W wfrank frank jack alexander A G brooks 00 JD J D leigh H J doolittle A R yoeman 00 C W booch JF J F denwiddie Dmn Dirin widdie there will be others contribute which will insure sufficient money to prosecute the work of driving a test well vigorously and to go deep enough to demonstrate demonet rate toa certainty whether there is flowing water in that locality many people have felt that a depth of 1000 feet would be sufficient to tap a large flow and it is to be hoped that their belief is right the people of other parts of the county will wait with keen anticipation of success of the project the test well will be drilled on the property belonging to H J located to a few miles from lund if flowing water la is struck he will reimburse all subscribers to the fund contributed for the drilling of the well if no water is 4 encountered the subscribers will have the satisfaction of knowing that they have done what uncle sam should have done long ago the farmers of the desert are pretty sure of several things and absolutely sure of one thing and that is that thai they must have water to raise crops over and above the train rain fall there are several exception exceptionally ally good propositions offered in lund and vicinity for well drilling at present and the present project will insure getting the deepest well at alu minimum of cost at |