The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-31
NYE'S PARCHED WE'LL
A Hard Time to Give it Enough
to Drink.
Re States 1t Is the Only dry Place in the
State Of North Carolina-A Patriotic
Mayor.
Ioopyrieht. lsas. by Edgar w. Nye.l


Those who are interested in the subject
Of wells will be glad 70 know that work
men on this well known structure OF mine
struck water on the evening Of the Sth
inst, and were compelled TO get ont with
great haste TO avoid beng drowned. Two feet
and ten inches of water were reported BY
my well superintendent, who tapped me for
another assessment and went home to OBJ
tain much needed rest. thought that two
feet would hardly be sufficient for our
family. several members Of which use
water exclusively SIS q tonic. 80 | got an
other man to put in final blast.
This blast was i'll advised. as it cracked
open the bottom Of the well and let out the
two feet and ten inches Of water which had
been put in there on the night Of the sth
inst II is low enough to salt gold mine,
but the man who will carry water from the
branch" all night to salt the water Of a
kind hearted northern Invalid who is will
ing to let bygones be bygones and ready TO
let the dead past do its own undertaking is
not going to encourage cobwebs on the
mouths Of your cannon the way feel like
doing.
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charging two dollars per foot the well
digger meant two dollars per foot down
and two dollars up, or two dollars Tor
digging and two dollars for slowing. Also
] paid for hands, materials, damages,
medicine, etc / never said anything IN
less 1t was that did not hold myself re-
sponsiblees late as this for the damage that
General Sherman did in the heat Of passion,
while ] was too young TO be held response
htr md haf a 4
thought, was poor place to work in the
1ntire expenses of war.
Even when / found that the well at the
depth Of 100 feet had tapered so fast that 1t
was merely little feversh point in the
thirsty bowels Of the earth did not MUIR
muir. Even when ! found that he'd 1000
yards Of earth piled up at the mouth Of the
well on top Of my strawberry bed did not
speak bitterly or refer with acrimonY to
the wooden cannon which were so placed IS
TO keep Mcclellan falling back to the Ar
hngton hotel in Washington every evening
for weeks.I did not rake up old personalities
even when / went down once to see the
well and the hands at the windlass went to
Asneville 10 spend a gala week, leaving me
to enjoy the glorious scenery known as the
Land Of the Sky. But | say that should
not expect 70 wreak the vengeance of q
century upon or collect the consequential
damages OF four years Of hard fought any
calamitous war from peaceable man who
has been already picked onn by the so
called artists Of the United States till he
DOES not dare to unveil himself in public
till after twilight
dc not come before the public asking
for 300 Pinkerton men 10 protect me at the
cost Of their lives. My grounds are free to
those who wish TO come and gambol on
them, and no armed force will be invoked
to keep the peace on my plantation. / only
ask that no one Will refer TO this well IN
til I am more calm.
In the meantime / have q large, beauti-
full, geared windmill for sale. / bought
the windmill feeling certain that here.
where the rain only pauses to spit on its
hands and get better hold, water would
be plenty even if we had to catch it in the
well in the shape Of rain. but my well is
now the only dry place in North Caro-
lima.
To my other duties l have to add now
that Of sprinkling the well. That is not all.
After three or four months watching the
growth OF well you get attached to il.
You cannot bear to see il suffer and toss
about and hear it cry for water. A typhoid
we'll with nothing in it but shortage and
q dead kitten of the pole variety is one of
TIE saddest sights ! ever listened to.