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(Personal) Hr, Roaooe Moss, Moss Drilling Co., 4360 forth Street, Dos Angelos, Cel, Lea Vegas - June 10, 1938. W 23-3-5 Dear Hosooe: Ton sill recall a little over a year ago yon drilled a well here at Das Vegas for the Railroad Company, known as Well Ho. 3, to a depth of 802 feet and from which we received a flow of more than three million gallons per day, shortly after completion of the well. I was tinder the impression that oar worries would be over for the hot summer months when the heavy drain is placed on our water supply to adequately take care of the demands of the consumers here. However, since the advent of, hot weather a week or ao ago, we have been making regular daily measurements of the amount of water in the reservoir and find 4t is dropping at an alarming rate. The old well and the springs are holding up in good shape, but a weir measurement of the new well (#2), shows that It has decreased to around 700,000 gallons per day, a less of almost two and a half million gallons. I am afraid the well is sanding up, and know of no one who could better advise me in this regard than yourself. The log of the well indicates the casing was perforated with 1/3* x 2* holes (S holes to every 10 inches) from depth 375 to depth 734 ft* which is the end of the casing. This dtpth embraces a strata of loose gravel.