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Mr* Ehlekerbooker: #g G| very 'peculiar poo it; ion, and i can foresee that in the euramer months "'hop m find our reservoir almost drained and a marked shcartag© of proemire and water to the consumers* there will he an Immediate howl fro® the entire populace and a refusal on the part of a great many to pay their--monthly water rent. You are familiar with the exchange of correspondence on this subject last year, at which tiros it was decided not to expend the amount necessary for a new well, hot I wish to empha­sis © the feet, that conditions nr® much worse this year and will oontlnne to be as the ©uimner progresses, Another thing we should anticipate is the probable demand for resumption of ser­vice in the Boulder Addition, At this time wo are not serving water to the Boulder Syndicate, but for the first ten month® of 1938 we delivered to them m average of 2,013,765 gall one per month on a wholesale basis, with an average revenue from them of f148,00 per month, «han the hot summer months arrive and they find their pump will not supply the addition* they will earns to us and ask for water, and no doubt the .Public Service Commission will require us to furnish it* fhe requirement® of this Addition arc, of course, highest during the summer months when we are ourselves short of water, and with no water running over the. spillway right now it is not difficult to imagine the situation that we will have to face later in the summer, , April 1, 1936,