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L a s V e g a s ,N e v a d a REVIEW - JOURNAL April 4, 1947 W ater Wasting Well Capped The greatest' single source of ] water waste in the Las Vegas I valley was stopped today, ac­cording to C. Harry Jameson, artesian well supervisor for" the Nevada state engineer. The flow,'he said, was from the 'old Sun welT on the Bell ranch,, run­ning wild since 1914, and a chair lenge to drillers who have tried , to cap it for three years. ! Daily wastage from the well, ! Jameson said, was 380,000 gal­lons. Under the present control there is a possible flow now of 194,000 gallons daily with 26 pounds of pressure. Water from the well has been flowing undirected into pasture land,, Jameson said, and for a •considerable area surrounding it •the land is soaked and useless for agricultural development. It .will now be dried out, and pos­sibly reclaimed later, he indi­cated. Work on the project has been, under the direction of the Ne­vada state enginer’s office, Jame­son said. The stoppage was ac­complished by G. R. Horner, a rotary well driller, and his suc­cess in this job will probably lead to control of other wells, Jame­son declared; L This well, ,he explained, had been drilled about 15 feet from an old spring*, which' complicated i control efforts. The’ spring was recharged from the artesian flow, and the combination was a major1 annual loss from the aquifers be­low, Now the spring is flowing about one gallon a minute, Jame­son said.