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^ .fhs reason la to present applicants from appropriating more water titan their permit allows, and la flew of the fast that the well supervisor cannot oheok e oh of the four hundred wells In the valley day and night, the only effect!1 e control he oould have over withdrawals fro® the underground channel would he hy the use of meters* He has not been insistent toward our company in this respect, as he knows we have a record of sorts from our weir measurements and time record of each well in aervioe, hat feds we should set a good ex* i ample in equipping our wells with meters, especially as we are the largest individual user and he uses our figures as the base in computing total annual withdrawals from the artesian basin. X recommend for your consideration the installa­tion of recording meter on each of our sources, and the elimination of the weir boxes which are inaccurate and wasteful. A iparllng saddle-*type meter, which costs about ' V. , *v , !. ' » #350# could be inserted in the existing transmission main at little eost, and perhaps w© could try one of these on Well Ho.-1© to test the results before going to the larger expense of equipping all sources at once# aopies of Hr. Anderson’s reports are -attached, A. $L Iblger