735B28: "Grayum and Campbell rig about 6 miles east of Windsor (English?) 15 inch...

1934-11-20
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735B29: "Grayum and Campbell rig about 6 miles east of Windsor. 15 inch plunger bucket,...

Image also used as Figure 18, "Detachable steel barrels used for loading casing. Fifteen-inch sand pump on drilling line. Platform also carries drive head for auger" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code.

1934-11-20
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735B30: "Ross Oliver drilling rig at work on well near Gilcrest"

Snow on ground

1929-02-11
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735B1302: "Putting down deep 'soft water' well near Julesburg"

1929-06-07
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735B31: "Putting down 48 inch well on the Hog Ranch. Oliver Well Works. NW4 Sec. 35...

1929-06-01
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735B32: "Ross Oliver drilling rig sinking wells in pit (4 wells, one at each corner),...

1929-02-11
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735B33: "Oliver Well Works, 48 inch well"

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735B34: "Jacking out 12 inch casing 25' long. Reed Bros well west of Gilcrest"

1931-08-01
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735B35: "Jacking out 12 inch casing 25' long. Reed Bros well west of Gilcrest. Casing...

1931-08-01
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735B36: "H. Fan well, setting 48 inches inside of 60 inches"

1930-04-22
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735B37: "Effort at pulling 68 inch casing at Thatchers, Nepesta, Colo."

Man in image is probably W. E. Code.

1932-02-25
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735B38: "Effort to pull 18 inch casing at Thatchers by C. Rohwer and W. E. Code"

Man in image is probably W. E. Code.

1932-02-25
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735B39: "Layne-Western, casing jack. Sinking 36 inch blank inside of 42 inch blank. At...

Cars parked next to house in background. Image also used as Figure 19, "Jacking arrangement for forcing casing" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code.

1932-02-06
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735B40: "Layne-Western casing jack"

1932-02-01
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735B14: "Dempster suction sand bucket showing swinging valve"

Image also used as bottom right of Figure 13, "Sand pumps or vacuum buckets...bottom dump, hinged shoe" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code.

1929-07-11
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735B41: "Layne-Western top dump 10 inch x 10' suction bucket. Plunger has about 1/4...

Image also used as top right of Figure 13, "Sand pumps or vacuum buckets...top dump" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code.

1932-02-06
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735B42: "Layne-Western top dump 10 inch x 10' suction bucket"

Haystack in background

1932-02-01
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735B43: "Layne-Western single line orange-peel"

Image also used as Figure 14, "Hammer type of orange-peel bucket rigged with one line" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code and Figure 27 in "Putting Down and Developing Wells for Irrigation" by Carl Rohwer.

1932-02-01
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735B45: "Rig of A.H. Masiran. Turn table and earth auger. Jake Luther, driller. Roy-...

2016-08-17
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735B46: "A.H. Masiran rig, Pueblo. Turn table for earth auger and power take-off"

Image also used as Figure 11, "Power take-off from well machine to drive soil auger" in "Construction of Irrigation Wells in Colorado" by W. E. Code.

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735B48: "A.H. Masiran. A top dump suction bucket"

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735B52: "A.H. Masiran. A rock 'picker' which did not work"

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735B5602: "Drilling shallow well with standard portable rig and orange-peel bucket"

Note on envelope reads, "Irrigation wells". Title information from "Putting Down and Developing Wells for Irrigation" by Carl Rohwer. See Figure 26, which also reads, "Galvanized-iron casing is being forced down by means of boxes loaded with sand....

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735B5701: "Stovepipe casing being forced down into shallow well by means of lever...

Note on envelope reads, "Irrigation wells". Title information from "Putting Down and Developing Wells for Irrigation" by Carl Rohwer. See Figure 21.

2016-08-17
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735B5802: Man watching another man operate a drilling rig

Note on envelope reads, "Irrigation wells".

2024-05-15
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