Originally Posted by huntsman22
There was an old dugout homestead on the ranch. I was looking for arrowheads and found the collapsed dugout and stone-lined well. The boss had the mexicans dig out around the first 20 feet or so with an extend-a-hoe. They then hauled the stone back to the house. We dug another hole and they re-stacked the stone to make a well in the front yard. The new well sticks outta the ground, but the old one was flush. He had a lattice built to keep kids from falling in.....

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One like that here on our Ranch too. GrandDad said it was dug in the 1880’s. It’s at least 20 feet down to the water. Don’t know how deep it goes beyond that.

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