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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 t use the well for lawn and do meat Is purposes, It is 800 feet and about ten, years ago I Increased the depth to SOO feat. It gradually decreased until about 3§ yeexe ox three year* ago I wont to Mr. Bracken for water because tho well isti failed and he allowed m to connect across Charleston, Sine® that time * k m ® n * t need the well. It does flow just over the top of the pipe* The fire boys went out and tried to pump If but we got no increase of water. The well west of na**th® last one you a&urked*»is in the Button property. That well is about eight hundred feet deep ansi la flowing nicely at* the present time* Q# How far, in distance, ie that well oast of you! A. Abort 650 feet* I aw not prepared to .say why this h&ppsma and why the lack of water, but all of those wells, with the exception of the Button well have practically ceased. Q, than you connected up with the fc*s Vegas t o d & later Company, did you pay for the connection! A* I paid for the line crossing the street* There are two lines that | control crossing Charleston-one going to ay father*e house acid one to ®y own. At the present time x •» using water from both of those pipe®. Aa fat m the quantity of water that we get from the city, well, I manage to get fey but we have very little preasua from the service, especially during the hours that everybody else uses the water. There are periods of the day and night when the pressure is sufficient, but moat of the time^in the daytime or late evening, there is very.little pressure* Q« Have you a two**etory house! A, Bo, sir. At the same time, in the summer we have to turn the sprinkler system off to get any amount of water In the house* Cf*nft use the bath tub or toilet at the same time the lawn sprinklers art going, but we menage it and do it* I had the same experience with Mr. Bracken that we have heard about relative to water just back of my house. I own about thirty acres back along Sixth street* Q* Ton say that you had the ease experience! A . y e s , s i r * -13^ ®ls