(This chapter is a free update for the third brother of the book friend to laugh for nine days.) It was a celebration of his late arrival in the sign-in building on the 400th floor of the previous book. ）

After drilling a well, Link paid Ben Stein $500,000 under the contract. And continue to hire him to continue to lead the second diameter drilling. But this time he was only given $50,000. He agreed. And now that he had received an invitation from someone else, it was a big farm called Winnemarka in the north, so he didn't hesitate to fry Link.

However, he said, the big farm only hired him as a consultant: "They don't limit me to directing drilling for other people, including towns and other farms, at the same time." I think that will help more people solve the problem of water problems. ”

Link knew that the most important reason was probably money. He only gave $50,000 for a well, which made him feel that it was less. But he didn't keep it. He's already found water here anyway. The drilling team also has enough experience, and he doesn't have to be in charge of drilling a second hole.

But that kind of thing always makes people feel uncomfortable - someone has broken the agreement. If the other party clearly says that he wants to provide guidance to others, he will not refuse. But the other party didn't ask this question at all. Maybe he felt that digging such a large flow of wells and only getting 500,000 US dollars had already made the other party feel at a loss.

For this reason, Link had to stay at Fairville Peak Farm for a few more days, and worked with the construction team to determine the route of the canal and the location of the reservoir.

Although he intends to build a reservoir in the mountains. But such a reservoir cannot have much water storage, so the amount of work will not be very large.

Because there is a huge amount of water gushing out every day. Changing the direction of the water a day earlier would have reduced the risk of sudden recontamination of the Great Valley, so he spent most of the next two months at Fairville Farm. Until the second well also comes out of the water.

The two wells, one south and one north, converge more than 300 meters apart, and the water from the second well did not change the water volume of the first well. And the canal was repaired. Halfway up the mountain, the water was drawn to the east. In the valley where the wells were dug, a dam more than 200 meters long and 20 meters high was built with a cement frame and a large amount of earth and stone to stop the water from the two wells.

The construction team was now able to slowly build a system of canals to the west of the Great Valley.

In addition, Link approached Adrian Moss, who had set up an irrigation system for Hans's farm, and asked his company to install an irrigation system for the entire Fairville Farm. It's a big project. The system would require at least 240,000 acres of land, for which Link would have to pay more than $30 million.

But with this system, he can cultivate farmland anywhere on any farm, and all the ground can be transformed into rich pasture.

The investment is, of course, significant. If it's just growing food, it's not cost-effective. But he considered the advice that Martha had given him before, to breed baby alpacas. According to the habits of the young alpaca, he can make at least a thousand dollars or more per acre of alpacas per year - provided that he has a sufficient number of alpacas, of course.

Alternatively, he can grow seeds. There is almost no farmland around here, if he grows grain seeds in the Great Valley. It is not easy to be contaminated by other farm crops, and purebred grain seeds can be obtained. And the price of grain seeds is much higher than the price of selling grain.

Of course he wanted to sell the seeds. There is still a need to wait for an opportunity. And I don't know how long it will take for this opportunity to appear.

After dealing with the matter of Fairy Peak, he can finally breathe a sigh of relief. And by this time it was already August. The drought in Nevada has become more severe. Oddly enough, there are quite a few people who have invited Ben Stein to direct the drilling of groundwater, and in Nevada, there are at least sixty wells being drilled. But many have reached 800 meters, but still no water has been found.

He returned to Hans's farm, where a drilling rig was still working. The well has been drilled to 980 meters, and now it has reached the fifth layer of basalt. The thickness of this rock formation seems to be very thick. I've drilled 200 meters, but I still haven't gotten through. Most likely, it is a large piece of basalt and not a so-called aquifer.

Link's previous budget was to drill the well up to 1,050 meters, and if he still couldn't find a water layer, he gave up completely.

At Fairvi Peak, they only drilled more than 700 meters to find a confined water layer. And here it is already nine hundred and eighty meters and has not been found. Link guessed that the layer of water didn't reach this point.

He came to the vicinity of the drilling rig and saw that the wellhead was still a viscous mud brought out by the rotation of the linkage rod. This proves that even the very small amount of water found at Fairville Peak has not been found.

He asked the captain of the drilling team, "What is the drilling speed now?"

"In this rock formation, we can only drill about one foot and five inches in an hour. The progress is very slow. And this rock formation seems to be very thick. Maybe we got to the predetermined depth, and we still haven't drilled through it. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "That only proves that there is no groundwater here." But don't worry, even if there is nothing down there, I will pay you immediately before it is completed. ”

The captain smiled and said, "Of course we believe that." Two hundred thousand dollars, I guess that's not much money to you. ”

Link laughed and said, "That's not right. 200,000 dollars, you can buy more than 100,000 hamburgers. He glanced at the linkage lever that was still creaking and turning, and finally said. "I'm going to work hard for you next. I'll go first!"

He turned to the car before he opened the door when he heard a muffled whining sound. He looked back at where the sound had come from. The sound seemed to come from the drill.

He didn't understand what was going on, but the captain of the drilling team changed face and shouted, "Stop working, run!" He used to be an oil driller and knew what the voice meant. He ran forward, and as he passed Link, he said. "Mr. Hans, stay out of the well!

Link is also aware of what is going to happen.

He didn't even close the car door and ran with his back to the well. He ran a hundred or so meters, and when he saw the captain stop, he also stopped.

The sound was getting louder and louder, and he could see that the steel frame that had stopped drilling was shaking. Suddenly, a turbid jet of water erupted from the ground, hitting the steel frame and splashing everywhere.

The drillers cheered. But the drill captain still watched nervously. As if waiting for something. Link saw that the water that had squirted out had turned clear. He turned to him and asked, "Can we get closer now?"

"Not yet. You listen to the water squirting and the low chirping. The linkage rod is also vibrating violently. Most likely, the current will wash them out and fly straight into the sky. ”

But he waited another two minutes, and nothing happened to him as he feared. He then instructed the worker to prepare to put the well away. It's a dangerous job. Link wanted to get closer, but was not allowed.

Link looked at the column of water and felt that the water that was spewing from this well was not as large as the flow of Filway Peak. But how many there are still to be calculated by the drilling team.

The people of the drilling team shouted and worked carefully for most of the day to evacuate the drilling rig from the torrent from the bottom up.

The drill captain breathed a sigh of relief at this point, and he walked up to Link wet and said, "Congratulations, Mr. Hans, now you don't have to worry about drought anymore." ”

This is already the third artesian well drilled by Link, and there is not much fluctuation in his heart. He shook hands with the other person and said, "Thank you." Thank you for your professional work. But can you calculate how much traffic is now?"

"According to my previous experience, the self-injection flow of this well should be about 30,000 cubic meters. This is the first ejection, and if there is no gas pressure in the ground, I think this flow will continue. ”

30,000 cubic meters, although far less than the flow of Filvi Peak, is already twice as much water per unit area for Hanse Farm.

Hans Farm drilled an artesian well, which seemed to cheer up Las Vegas, which is only more than 30 kilometers away in a straight line. Seven wells are being drilled around the city. Now their depth has reached nine hundred meters. If there is also confined water around the casino, they only need to drill more than 100 meters to find the water. They only need to drill more than 100 wells and no longer rely on any external water sources to meet their water needs.

The day after the well on Hans's farm came out, a well with a fairly high self-flow rate was drilled in another place. That well is located in Austin City, Nevada. However, the daily flow of this well is only about 10,000 cubic meters. But this amount of water has already increased the town's water consumption to 20 cubic meters per person per day. This will allow for larger farms around the town.

But questions are beginning to be raised about Ben Stein's confined water layer. Because Nedahua has a total of hundreds of calibers drilling at the same time. Some wells have been drilled to more than 900 meters and five aquifers have been drilled, but the confined water he said has still not been found. Even if there were, it would be a maximum of hundreds of cubic meters of self-flow per day.

This has led some geologists to come up with a hypothesis: "The confined aquifer may be deeper underground, and where the groundwater can be drilled out now, it may be because of cracks in the geological formations that allow the groundwater to gush into the upper layers." And the real confined water layer may be very small. It's like a small river, flowing underground. Because the geology of Nevada is a north-south trending fold, the spacing between each fold is not large, and perhaps not every fold has a suitable groundwater passage between them. ”

But optimists reject this claim: "The two farms where Linkhans drilled groundwater, more than two hundred miles apart, separated by a few folds, found the aquifer by simply finding a well." That shows that the distribution of aquifers is relatively large. It's just that the depth is different everywhere. ”

Both claims have their own market.

They hadn't had time to argue for a few days when they received the news that made them jealous again: Link Hans had once again drilled an ultra-high-flow artesian well on his farm in Snake Valley.