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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 2:53 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> Bob, if you paged through the article and saw the
> underground water chambers on the following three pages,
> this is more of what I have starting at 40 feet below the
> surface where the pioneers dug through rock to get to it.
> The opening and shaft all the way down is about the length
> and width it would take a man to swing a pick axe, so
> rectangular, maybe 4' x 5' or so.
>
> I don't have an above ground natural well like this one, I
> have something that's tapped into the watery cave below,
> and the 40 feet down to it is air space.

I would find irresistible the closing of the downstream edge of that  
stream, to see if it would rise to the surface.