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tion at hand, they turned their efforts to the possibility of underground water. In 1915 the! hired a professio~mlwell driller from California by the name of Hal-ry Paine. He sct up a big steam rig and dug an 800 foot hole near the hotel location, and rcported that there wasn't sufficient water for irrigation. Of course, this proved to be only a momentary defeat because tests develnpcd p o d pump wells later. As early as 1908 a well for culinary water usc was dug near thc Field Officc of the project. It was only 86' deep, and the location was Ke% Sec 7 T 3 f S R15W. The first pumps used, as underground water was developed. were centrifugal pumps. They ran with one-cylinder kerosene hurning engines and had to 11eset down on the water level. At this time, the entire Kewcastle Reclamation Projert was :I pretty "sorry affair." Under the circumstances, the men involved met together to deride what was to be done. Lehi was one of these men. -4fter discussing- the possibilities they came to the decision that they would divide the :Issets and thr obli:ations among them. Each of them appraised his own rapacity and what hc felt he was worth. Each man, also, appraised what hr thoug-ht each of thc others was worth and wrote this information down. When it was disclosed what each man had written, it was found that every person in the qroup, without exception, had appraised himself for more ohligation than he had any other man. They actually came u p with more money than they needed to take care of their indebtedness, so they divided the assets according to their stock. The project was a disappointing experience, but Lehi'said he wouldn't trade it because he met some of the finest men he had ever known in his entire life. Lehi had put from 75 to 100 thousand dollars into this project and had utilized practically all of the resources of his eutire family to sponsor his share. His older l,oys were now running the livestock holdings and nearly every sale that was made, including the cattle that were in Dixie, was for the purpose of paying off the deht Lehi owed for the Escalante Project. 4 t least all the profit, other than living expenses, was used for this. Lehi had five hoys then who worked with his holdings: and all of them were at the age that they could work with the rattle, the sheep, and running- the farms. Lehi would not have been ahle to invest in the Escalante Project or resain his financial stature again if he hadn't the support of his immediate family. They were willing to work with him and go along with his judgment whether it happened to he a good deal or not. Some of the hoys were married then, hut they still didn't ol~ject doing this. They stood to gain more than lose, as a rule. to The family acquired a sizeahle amount of property in the Kewrastle area as a result of the division."

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
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Title	Page 159
Description	tion at hand, they turned their efforts to the possibility of underground water. In 1915 the! hired a professio~mlwell driller from California by the name of Hal-ry Paine. He sct up a big steam rig and dug an 800 foot hole near the hotel location, and rcported that there wasn't sufficient water for irrigation. Of course, this proved to be only a momentary defeat because tests develnpcd p o d pump wells later. As early as 1908 a well for culinary water usc was dug near thc Field Officc of the project. It was only 86' deep, and the location was Ke% Sec 7 T 3 f S R15W. The first pumps used, as underground water was developed. were centrifugal pumps. They ran with one-cylinder kerosene hurning engines and had to 11eset down on the water level. At this time, the entire Kewcastle Reclamation Projert was :I pretty "sorry affair." Under the circumstances, the men involved met together to deride what was to be done. Lehi was one of these men. -4fter discussing- the possibilities they came to the decision that they would divide the :Issets and thr obli:ations among them. Each of them appraised his own rapacity and what hc felt he was worth. Each man, also, appraised what hr thoug-ht each of thc others was worth and wrote this information down. When it was disclosed what each man had written, it was found that every person in the qroup, without exception, had appraised himself for more ohligation than he had any other man. They actually came u p with more money than they needed to take care of their indebtedness, so they divided the assets according to their stock. The project was a disappointing experience, but Lehi'said he wouldn't trade it because he met some of the finest men he had ever known in his entire life. Lehi had put from 75 to 100 thousand dollars into this project and had utilized practically all of the resources of his eutire family to sponsor his share. His older l,oys were now running the livestock holdings and nearly every sale that was made, including the cattle that were in Dixie, was for the purpose of paying off the deht Lehi owed for the Escalante Project. 4 t least all the profit, other than living expenses, was used for this. Lehi had five hoys then who worked with his holdings: and all of them were at the age that they could work with the rattle, the sheep, and running- the farms. Lehi would not have been ahle to invest in the Escalante Project or resain his financial stature again if he hadn't the support of his immediate family. They were willing to work with him and go along with his judgment whether it happened to he a good deal or not. Some of the hoys were married then, hut they still didn't ol~ject doing this. They stood to gain more than lose, as a rule. to The family acquired a sizeahle amount of property in the Kewrastle area as a result of the division." 159
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
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