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both of them upon currents which will flow over the top of 

 a four-inch pipe on a level with the ground, driven down 

 sixty feet. T connect my steam pump right onto it. I have 

 another one in which the water comes up about ten feet in 

 the pipe. It is twenty-eight feet deep. The longer you 

 pump from a driven well the more water there is in it. 



Mr. Sessions. How did you discover the current? 



Mr. Rawson. By an apple tree — a piece of stick. All 

 I have to do is to step above the current — 



Mr. Sessions. That is the secret of it Mr. Rawson has 

 the power which many have heard of — a sort of magic as to 

 discovering water. I do not know whether he can tell us 

 how any of us can do it or not. 



Mr. Rawson. No, sir ; I do not believe you can. 



Question. I would like to know what encouragement 

 there is for a man in a hill town to sink one of these wells — 

 on the top of a hill where it is rock — to get a supply for the 

 house ? 



Mr. Rawson. Is your land all ledge? 



Mr. . It is ledge after you get down twelve or 



fourteen feet. 



Mr. Rawson. There are arrangements by which rocks 

 are drilled right through nowadays as well as through soil. 

 If I was on a hill like that I would move off. [Laughter.] 



Professor Stockbeidge. I am very deeply interested in 

 the line of remark that has been made. It seems" to me, 

 after all, when we consider the whole State of Massachusetts, 

 the farmers of the State and their situation, that this talk 

 about irrigating a domestic garden, or even a market garden, 

 is rather a picayune business. What I want to do is to irri- 

 gate a haying lot of one hundred acres, a corn field, a wheat 

 field, on a broad, grand scale. I do not believe we can pump 

 water by steam engines and get water enough for that 

 extended work, and that if we have water enough to irrigate 

 on a grand scale, as we want, we must take it by gravity from 

 some flowing stream. Now, the question I wish to ask is 

 this — the gentleman has probably investigated this matter 

 thoroughly : Suppose the people of Easthampton want to 

 draw water from some stream that is coming down from an 

 elevated section of this town, for the purposes of irrigation. 



