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the President of the Chanter of Commerce advised that he would appoint a small committee to cooperate with the State Engineer in strict conservation measures mid to investigate, and after study of the entire situation, recommend steps to he tahen to bring about a standby supply. As a natter of Information, we secured from Mr. Case data upon the cost and capacity of the B.M.I. water facilities. It develops that the cost of pumping equipment, reservoir, pipe line and distribution .,ete» vae fe.1 6 7 -1 1 2 . th. la k e at .lar.tlon 1229, which is the elevation at uhloh storage waters »®?2\ g T!L. QO0 the spillways, the pumps have a capacity of approximately aa,000,000 gallons per^day. At the lowest level engineers figure might occur after a prwohtircahc tBeudr^e daur o°u*g hJt®, 01o*r ®®e*l*e®v*a tion 1050, the capacity would be >1 ,000,000 gallons per day. the storage reservoirs have a capacity of 31,000,000 gallons. I am attaching hereto a copy of the paper which I read before the meeting. Frantj^trong «
