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1 photograph; 1 negative; b&w; 15.5 x 14.2 cm.
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50.391521, -105.549507
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68-525
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Article from unidentified newspaper titled "From the Past - To the Foundry", with handwritten date "Nov 2/56", glued to back of photograph.
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Please credit Moose Jaw Public Library Archives Department.
Abstract
Image of a cast iron mud pump being skidded on boards in snow into the Moose Jaw Foundry by Aylmer Pritchard (right) and Henry Swain (left) in preparation for melting down in 1956. This pump was used to deepen a natural gas test well that the city drilled inside the city limits near the power station in 1910. Although the test well was abandoned four years later in 1914, the mud pump was used again to deepen the well in 1930 which resulted in a hot mineral water deposit, which led to the building of the Moose Jaw Natatorium in 1932.
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