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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 money to employ Mr. Jameson as a well supervisor, and Mr* Jameson has been engaged in such work sinee that time. His first work, of course, was in getting all of the wells sapped that thereto* fere had been flowing unrestricted, and also in administering the distribution of water in accordance with permitted rights, and X think I can safely say that as a result of his work, a saving of two or three millions or mere gallons of water per day was mads, which I say had been going to waste, foil, we realised, of course, that there is a supply hero in Las Togas which was not inexhaustible, which was a more or less supposition; that there mat a limit, and we felt that a comprehensive study should be made to determine the safety in the area* In 19Mf, using seme of the money that was raised by taxes here in the Talley, we entered into a cooperative program with the &.S.6.S., and they assigned a very competent geologist in this area, a man by the name of George Maxey, who Is the senior author of this Water Resources Bulletin We. $. Mr. Maxey had assisting him in this work Harry Jameson. In 19**$, we were able to get a ground wator appropriation from tho State to be used in cooperat1 cm with money fro* the Government, for a com* prohecisive ground wator study throughout tho State, and for the next two years we concentrated in this area, and the result of that work was put into bulletin form, and that is Water Resources Bulletin We, $. That is, briefly, the outline of the work that we have done, and I might also add that Mr. Smith, the State Engineer, 132.