A windmill meant water…
As soon as possible a well was dug. George did this by hand, hauling buckets of dirt out of the hole with ropes and pulleys. In November of 1915 they ordered a windmill from the Sears & Roebuck Catalog. The windmill came by train in a big wooden crate. Of course nothing goes to waste on the farm, the crate that the windmill was shipped in was converted to a hen house that stills stands on the farm today. Once they installed the windmill and built two large concrete cisterns to reserve water life on the farm really began to improve. In 1916 the Lake Lowell Reservoir was finally completed and irrigation water was accessible to farms. The homestead was starting to flourish and in 1920, after a bumper potato crop, the Gammon’s planted some of the first cherry and apple trees in the Sunny Slope.