Jet pump attached to sand-point well

Today we made major headway. I assembled the plumbing and we now have water from our sand-point well. But I'm getting ahead of myself, a lot was learned from today's experience. I followed the pump and tank instructions. They were pretty straight forward. There were some issues, however, that need to be clarified.

The instructions show a priming tee before and after the pump. The instructions say, "If you have installed a priming tee in the suction piping, remove the plug from the tee and fill the suction piping." In the picture above, you will notice a priming tee where the suction pipe turns toward the pump. Now, here's the catch. Fill the suction pipe ONLY if the check valve is BELOW the priming tee. In the photo above, the check valve is AFTER the priming tee, so any water poured into the priming tee is only returning water back to the earth! What is important to learn is that the pump needs to have water, both on the input side and output side. Since my check valve is close to the pump, the priming tee at the corner of the suction pipe was unnecessary and unneeded.