[AT] Antique well, but maybe not antique technique?

[Len Rugen]

I hope they disqualified him from the Ministerial Alliance fishing 
tournaments :-)

On 9/23/2011 8:17 PM, Gene Dotson wrote:
>      Grant;
>
>      That brings back a lot of childhood memories. As a youngster, we had a
> minister who lived at the end of our road. His sideline business was
> rejuvinating water wells in the neighborhood. His tactic was a quarter stick
> of dynamite taped to a rock which was lowered to the bottom of the well and
> detonated. Most of the wells in the area were approximately 100 + or- feet
> deep and bored to porous limestone. This technique worked very well and
> saved a lot of wells in the area. Water was usually cleared up in 2 or 3
> days.
>
>      These were mostly 4 or 5 inch wells as very little irrigation is done in
> out part of the country.
>
>                      Gene
>