Articles Tagged with ''water well drilling''

In 1860, the United States population was 31½ million, the Pony Express made its first run to California, Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, and South Carolina seceded from the union — putting America on the fast track toward the Civil War. On the western side of Michigan, which had only been a state for 23 years, the Denton boys were installing wells.

Drilling large commercial and municipal wells in cramped quarters is not for everyone.

Though we often take clean water for granted, millions around the country are not so lucky, and that daily convenience is replaced by a deep longing for fresh, clean, convenient water.