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THIS AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY “ _< [12 The Guardian, Chariotvetown, Tues., Oct. 25, 1968. | 1 thought thelr method of / would only be 10 cr 18 feet deep. fle” Mr. Compton didn't use the | ed together at the top to make @

- poe “chalk-lining” marks on wood|I remember a well on the farmi|word ‘handle’. Instead he call- | tripod, and these were used te tre-of the stick, even through | to explain. I suggest we skip that | was interesting. Today carpen-|of Chalmers MacLeod, Spring-| ed it ‘brake’, as the pump han-_| lift the ‘tail-piece’ of the pump— ‘ ® the part that wasn’t exactly|part. The rod used fo pull the|ters, or other wood workers,|ton, for example, that was so|dle was known in those days. It|the part we would call the pipe =a i E straight. — cylinder up and down was usual- | have blue. chalk with which they | shallow they had a bucket with | may have been spelled a bit dif-}—that went in the ground. This fo “Our deep” well--was 55 feet |ly round-iron-about_three-eigh- | chalk a-line, cut. to the desired | a chain on it-and_would_drop it |ferently. I forgot to ask him, |tripod and blocks«and-tackle ar- } deep, but the head piece ‘there | ths of an inch, or one-half inch. | length, then» they pull the line | into the water which was only a} but that’s the phonetic spelling | rangement would be necessary went down 12 to 14 feet, and the |“‘But we used three-eight inch’ tight, pull it up in the centre so| few feet’below the surface of the | of the word, at any rate. to lift the heavy stick, so it tail piece wen the rest of the galvanized pipe for the last | it will snap against the article | ground. Mr. MacLeod lives now,| He couldn't tell_me what the | could be dropped into the well,” way.” . pump we made,” Mr. Compton | they want to mark. If I have de-| at 198. Grafton. Street, not far|old wooden pumps . cost. But| Mr. Compton told me. There would be four or five told me. ’ scribed . that imperfectly,. I'm|from this office. The farm is wages were low in those days, : feet sticking above the ground—|_ The augur would be about two | not worrying, because most of|owned by Knud Jorgensen,|the cost probably would be low APPEAL DISMISSED of the head piece— the rest | inches in-diameter, and it would | you know how a chalk line is|Fredericton, who is one of ‘the | too, though I have no idea. SYDNEY, Australia (Reub | would be down in the ground. ® |be 2 job for two men to turn it, | used now better than I do. best known men in the province.| «ny father and grandfather |ers) — The New South Wales ne ,| They were always digging-|25 they drilled the holé through | MARKING IN OTHER YEARS |It’s years since I saw. the well used ‘6 travel-around the coun-|Court of Criminal A 1 ow ‘ By NEIL A. MATHESON The tail piece would be rough- | feet one) Mr. Compton told wells, walled with stone. The|the centre of the long piece of} But there was no such colored | but Knud told'me not so long ago try making the wooden pumps—| held Tuesday a Sckente’t of life 1 want to thank Allison Mac- oie nine inches in diameter, It | me first digging was through clay wood. Hector Compton's uncle, chalk in those early. days, ap-|that it’s still operating and the they would take their equipment|imprisonment on a youth con Leod, Charlottetown ,and ‘James | was the piece that went down in LONG STRAIGHT STICK that would be walled with stone, | Will Compton, built a windmill | parently. So here's what they| water is still close to the top of | with them— and they’d set up a vined of attempting to murder H. MacDonald of Sackville for|the water, and would have the| ‘We would hunt the woods for |ihe rast of the digging was to turn the Augur, and _ the |did.and the words ‘are those of | the ground. tripod of three poles, at Teast 25 | Opposition teste Arthur A, tips that brought me this story |cylinder in it. The Beech wood | a long straight stick, cut it down | ¢rough rock. neighbours) called him Wind- Mr. Compton: The old wooden pump: threw. a } raat long. They: would be chain- | Calwell.

“Wooden pumps.” ° was smooth for the cylinder |and prepare it for the job” | They would uite a | mill Bill’, his nephew told_me. | ‘‘They'd cut a piece of alder,|great stream. That four and’ Sen MacDonald sent-me—to|part. Mr. Compton explained,| The shank of the augur W®| hole at tot sate six teat in}. The The “handle” used to tie. the about two inches in diameter, | one-half inch bore a large cylin- Hector Compton at Bangor who | for the cylinder and’ the valves | bored with was 18 feet long Of | diameter—then they: would wall | big!augur was a stick tha and a few feet long. They'd burn | der brought up a lot of water. told me his father, John Henry |to work in. The cylinder was: one and one-half inch iron. They | it from the bottom up with field-{extend about two feet' on either the alder so it would be black, }You could fill a bucket with Compton, and his grandfather, | also of wood. There was no iron | would bore from each end ee stones, with a curve on the in-| side of.the central augur shaft:|then they’d snap the burned al-| three or four strokes of the han-

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John Compton, had made the/|pipe, it was all wood. . they became so skillful that they | side, and V-shaped to fit into the | It has to be that long, apparent-| der against the wood they want- rae Cc S. wooden otis Hector helped| The lower valve held the | almost hit the spot from each | circular shape of the well. ly, 80 that men turning the au-|@d to mark. When they used up | YOUR iNSURAN FE NEED them make one pump. he told| water, the upper one. went, with jend, hit the hole they had bored | QUESTION IS ANSWERED | gur as it slowly ate its way | ‘the burn’ off of the stick, they'd | me, then the iron pumps came|the spear rod,.up and down, |from the first end. They used to| I’ve been asked by several | through the long piece of wood; burn it some more, and - get PHONE 894-6567 in and'that ended the wooden|and lifted the water —| boast to each other’ how close) people to find out how the top| would have enough leverage on |50me further coloring, or mark: | “ones. that’s the principle of the old or could come, Mr. Compton wart of tne dug-wells were wall-| it to.turn ‘it. a ing usage out of it. ao 3 The heads of the pumps were |pumps— modern ones too for me, ; we! been put I would think ‘it would s those | “SS always made of pine, Mr. Com-|that matter, until the modern| ‘We had a series of benches |down 20 feet, for example, be-| difficult to keep the long | Wooden pumps would perhaps i | ee \ I ~HYNDMAN & co. pton .told..me. They were about | jets came into action. to set underneath that shaft to) fore solid rock was reached, how| augur straight, , so i |Tun to a maximum of 45 feet not ,

the bottom the wood was round- | the tail-piece— the pipe as we | those benches and a wedge, we/| five or 10 feet of that 20- foot| for example, or bore # |Compton’s put a wooden pump “a! ‘Limited. ed. An iron band was fastened | would ‘think of it today— was/|could regulate that augur shaft |depth, without having the sides| crooked.-corkscrew type of |im was 10 feet deeper.. tee firmly to take “the tailpiece” | about four ~and~ one-half inches’| up or down~to-make~ it--follow-| cave in on top of them and their |~-hole: -Mr. Compton —agreed—|--Many.-of_ the -wells .of_that_era | \ -Established_1872. Se bP that was always made of beech, | in diameter. The hole ‘was bored | the centre of the stick,"’ he re- | work? _ that it was quite ‘a trick; But Oftices:: : 57 Lower Queen St so it wouldn’t rot. And it would |through by hand. A two-inch |called. . But the answer is simple, Mr.| the men became 90 skillful NAURROL Me tA AT Pinna Stove and fuel oil moter ail *S ge : not “taste” the water, I was|augur was put through first,| They became eo skillful that if | Compton told me. After one digs| at it, that they could al- } grease, batteries. : end PEAPLOTIE TONY told. and then the hole was reamed to | they had a stick of wood which | through the first couple of feet,| most strike the right spot & REPAIRS also at Summerside — Moutague — Alberton The. head and tail piece were | the larger .sizé by a reaming | wasn’t quite straight— it might | he strikes a sort of hard-pan so| exactly, when they drilled Albert L. Thomas - | Joined together in sort of a| tool. Te save Se ee _"The einer wa eo oe ae = Set Soul Riel I Gratton St. Chitown # “The Old Reliable” ‘oove-and-tongue arrangemen The tai was one |for e men was Vv the. v ; i wr in ce Siete. leach "Oere sae teen ae os tang ] Fire, Life,:Marine, Auto and Guarantee Bonds ef all kinds.

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