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I agree.fhs reason is to prevent applicants fro® appropriating more water than their permit allows, and In vl-»w of the fast that the wall supervisor o&rmot check Ssch of the four hundred well# in the valley day and night, the only effeotl^e ©ontrol he oould have over withdrawals from the underground channel would be by the use of meters. He has not been Insistent toward our company In this respect, aa he knows we have a record of aorta from our weir measurements and tine recoil, of eaoh well in service, but feels we should set a good ea&~ ample In equipping our wells with meters, ©specially as we are the largest individual user and he uses our figures as the base in computing total annual withdrawals frost the artesian basin. X recommend for your consideration the Installation of recording net«r on eaoh of our sources, and the elimination of the weir boxes which are inaccurate and wasteful. A Sparling a addle-type meter, which costs about #350, could be Inserted In the existing transmission main at little cost, and perhaps we could try one of these on Well So. 10 to test the results before going to the larger expense of equipping all sources at once. Copies of Hr. Anderson9* reports era attached. A. X. Folger