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Mr. Knickerbocker: #3 A p r il 1, 1936. With the expense of a new well to be considered, I d islik e to mention the necessity for renewal of the wooden pipe lin e between the reservoir and shop yards fence, but it is in a deplorable condition, averaging about 50 leaks per week. This pipe has been patched and repatched un til there is not much le f t to hold the repair plugs, and i f this pipe line gives way there w ill not be su fficien t water delivered to supply the town through the single iron main which p a ra lle ls it underground. The estimate made la s t year to cover cost of d r i l l ­ing a 12-inch w ell, 600 feet deep, was $5,900, plus $4,200 for a cast-iron line to bring the water from the new well to the settlin g basin. This was the contract price, but by renting a w e ll-r ig and using ra ilro ad forces, a saving of about $1500 on th is estimate could be made. I am convinced that this is the one solution to our problem, as an additional reservoir or reservoirs would not correct the condition because the peak load does not vary so much between day and night as it does between winter and summer, and su fficien t water could not be stored dur­ing the winter months to take care of the demand during the summer. Our revenues have held up very nicely during the past year, and have not taken any decided drop on a Gcount of the large number of men cut o ff with the completion of Boulder Dam.