The well was 220 feet deep, and furnished abundant water for the whole neighborhood for many years. It is still in use.

Nels Christenson, heretofore mentioned as having dug a mile of deep wells, was down 280 feet digging in the well of Andrew Liden, which was twelve miles north of Potter, in 1890. The well was a hole about two feet and ten inches in diameter, and the bucket was sixteen inches square, and weighed when full about 300 pounds. When at the top of the well, it was detached, and accidently allowed to fall back in. A shout from above warned Christenson who "flattened himself" against the side of the well and held up his hands to ward off the blow. The bucket skinned his knuckles, tore the shirt and skin from his breast and landed just in front, on the bottom of the well. A day or two later he was at work, and finished the well in due time.

In the southwest part of Banner county, and the northwest part of Kimball county, there were two well fatalities in the deep wells of that vicinity. About six miles east oi the

southwest corner of the county, a fellow named Morby was buried at a depth of about two hundred feet, and at the suggestion of "nearest of kin" he was not exhumed.

Just over the line in Kimball county, a man named Peterson was buried, and after one or two attempts were made to get the body out, they came to Robert Osborne who had had experience in the mines. He said he could get to the body but someone else would have to take it out. When he reached it, he was hauled up, and another man went down and removed the body. Peterson had been in for six weeks, and was in a bad state of decomposition.