The Wellington Enterprise

Well! Well!! Well!!!
We are pleased to see our Town Council have courage enough to have Barnard & Rhodes, the well diggers, go deeper into the earth to find if possible what is under this great City of Wellington. They have now quite a sufficient amount of water to fill their contract, but the Council have decided to have them go about 15 feet deeper, making in all 160 feet. They have salt water now, but it is the opinion of nearly every one that they will strike pure water in a short time. They have been very faithful workers and deserve to be successful in their undertaking.
The question now is how can the Council get a tank elevated sufficiently to force the water to all parts of the city. It has been recommended that they build a tight floor immediately over the town clock, fasten up the small windows in the steeple of the church and force it full, then lay the pipes to all parts of the city, and in this way get the water distributed. It really looks as if such an arrangement would not be satisfactory, but we do not wish to dictate to the majority. Some people are always ready to condemn a new idea, whether it is practicable or not, the same as some would not be satisfied if Messrs. Barnard & Rhodes should strike a flowing well. They have condemned the matter of investigation from the start, saying the Council was fooling away the public money, and that class would rather have it a failure than a success to prove they were correct.