The Parker post., 1915-04-10

FOR WELLS
LAND COMMISSION GIVES AU-
THoRITY TO PROCEED, AND
DRILLING OUTFIT is NOW,
BEING REPAIRED.

nesday from the State Land Commits
sion to proceed with the experimen
| tai wells on the Colorado River In
dian reservation. A. L. Harris, en-
gineer for the land commission, re
turned to Phoenix Saturday night
and upon his report of the situation
here, the commission decided to pro
ceed with the work of sinking the
wells at once, so that the necessary
data on the underground water re
sources of the reservation may be
secured before the heated season
arrives.
The Chuckawalla well-drilling out
TT has been secured for the sinking
O. the wA''s and a force of men
under the supervision of Hayward
Short, began the assembling of the
outfit Thursday morning The rig
will be put together on the barge on
which it is at present located, and
after this has been done it will be
moved to section Is, T. NJ, range
20 W., where the first we'll will be
sunk.
Three locations for wells have
been ga ected, and if all of these
| wells i owe to contain a sufficient
supply of water for irrigation pur,
poses it is confidently believed that
ell Cf the surplus lards will be open
ed to settlement by the secretary
OF tht; Interior
The wells to be sunk will be six
teen inches n diameter. For the pur
pose of ascertaining the exact form.
alton and the proper points for the
location of the perforated screen, a
6-inch hole will be first put down
This will take but a few days to
accomplish, while the data secured
from this preliminary bore will be
invaluable in determining the work
on the larger we'll.
AS the wells are completed they
will be tested out with a 6-inch cen.
trnigul pump driven by a twenty
| horsepower engine. Engineer Harris
IS confident of securing an irriga
tion head in each of the wells in
excess of 1000 gallons per minute.
It has also been determined to test
out the old agency we'll, which was
sunk about five years ago. This we'll
Is twelve inches in diameter, and is
located near the old agency buildings
about a mile and half from Parker.
AT the time OF the completion of this
Well it was tested out with a small
pump, having a capacity of but 1875
gallons per minute. After steady
run to the full capacity of the pump
the we'll showed draw-down of only
two feet from the first water level,
which is twelve feet from the sur
faceA large pump is to be put in
commission for the testing of this
well
For the purpose of Investigating
the water supply on the mesa lands
surrounding Parker, it has been de-
cided to either sink we'll on the
mesa or make an official test of the
Raney we'll.
An effort will be made by Repre-
sentative Flanagan to secure an ad-
ditional appropriation at the special
session of the legislature for the
sinking of these experimental wells
and testing their capacity. 1t is
believed that such an appropriation
would come within the governors
call for the reason that the state has
approximately $4,000 acres of school
land in the reservation and if the
surplus lands of the reservation are
opened to settlement the state can
1hen secure title to it's lands.
Hayward Short will have charge OF
the drilling operations, and his ex-
rerience in the past in drilling wells
in this district will be of great ben
eft to the state in the present under
! taking.
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