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used for railroad purposes only but on occasion in past years, during hot weather periods, brought into use to supplement the supply available for city consumer's. It has provided a million gallons of water daily, but is now producing 65C,000 gallons. The production in gallons per day of the springs and wells has varied considerably, as may be seen from the tabulation below. 2-9-28 1938 9-13-39 Big Spring 1 ,10 0 ,0 0 0 Little Spring 1,045,000 878,000 970,000 1 ,001,000 878,000 Well No. 1 3,100,000 2,114,000 2,005,000 Well No. 2 - 3,278,073 952,000 Well No. 3 mm ’Well No. 4 Well No. 5 — Well No. 6 — mm The yield of the foregoing springs and wells for 1942 has been conservatively estimated at - _ Additional water Is anticipated from:- 9-25-41 677,160 709,560 1,866,240 978,480 907,200 447,120 381,024 _ 531.560 6,498,144 6 ,000,000Gal per day two Pumps Installed in Wells Nos. 5 and 6 “ _ " Well No. 4 New Wells Nos. 7 and 8 now being drilled " ? ' " 9 and 1C " » Add to the foregoing the dependable capacity of the well in the railroad yard Total available in 1342 (estimated) Last year's maximum city demand was Est. new services in 1542 may be expected to draw a maximum of Est. 1542 maximum railroad demand is Contingency for Basic Magnesium, Inc. and cushion Frank Strong's est. of Feb. 5, 1 9 4 £ This would indicate that the present system of 1,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 1.555000..000000 1.550.009 10,600,000 650.999 11,250,OOOGal per day 6 .1 0 0 .0 0 0 1,692,000 - 1 .3O0C0C..0o0n0n 9,592,OOOGal wel; l1 s and petrhe day springs are adeauate for the needs of the city for 1942 and 1943, but