Cabin Update - October 4th

It was a fun time up in Lancaster and Bemidji . .

Sue and I decided to go up to Lancaster this past Wednesday and stay there until Saturday when we would go to Travis (Haskell) and Amy's wedding in Bemidji, spend the night and go home Sunday. We just got home and I thought I should update this blog with the recent activities.

The Lost Moose

On the way out to the camp Friday I saw this moose as I turned south on the road that goes to Lake Bronson. I happened to see the moose and happened to have the camera with me so I snapped some pictures. It's been about 5 years since I saw a moose in this country. It was very nice to see that there are some moose in the area. Byron Chrisopherson was coming from the south and the moose went east into the woods in front of us. Byron called the moose a "lost moose". He had never seen a moose in this country.


Looking for tracks . . .

During well drilling Floyd had noticed some very large deer tracks. In fact, Floyd said they were the biggest tracks he had seen in his life. .

We did find its tracks and took these pictures

The Well !!!!!!!!!!

Here's the picture of our well. Floyd will tell the story better than me, but after drilling three times unsuccessfully at depths from 165 to 253 feet, we found water at less than 40 feet. I think they started seeing hope at about 20 feet and they stopped drilling at 40 feet.

Floyd is so happy with this result. The well is 42 yards west of the power pole and about 160 yards from the new cabin site.

What is this??

Bruce Gunderson stopped drilling at 40 feet because the drill bit hit something hard . . . coal! Doubtful we can make a million bucks but we can say we have coal filtered water. The small rectanguar piece in the middle is actually petrified wood.

Our first bottled water

Floyd asked Bruce if he could collect some of our water in this bottle he had with him, and Bruce said, "sure". As you can see, the level is down a bit since Floyd, Peggy, Sue, Ray Johnson, and I had a taste. The taste was great! There was maybe a very slight iron taste and something that's easily filtered if we think that's necessary. You can also see how clear the water is. WooHoo!

So what's next?

Dick had a good idea. He suggested we should try to get the water and powerline trenched from the well to the cabin yet this year. With that in mind, here's what we decided to do:

1. We called Bruce to see if this would be possible from his vantage point and he said yes. He just asked Glenn Anderson to give him a call a day or so before he needed to install the pitless unit and the submersible pump. The pump, by the way is 220 volts and draws 4.5 amps per leg. Bruce said he would also call with the wire size required for the160 yard run from the cabin site to the well.

2. We called Glenn who is also very busy this time of year. He said he would try to get this done this year.

3. Finally, we called Gopher 1 to locate utility lines. The only utility that needs to be located is internet. This will be done Tuesday morning, either Peggy or Floyd will meet this person out by the cabin.

The flow from this well is somewhere between 10 and 20 gallons per minute which is more than we would need to service the cabin.

Hopefully, by our annual meeting we can define the cabin construction.

We had a great time at the wedding and reception. So fun to get together with folks.

Bob