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ns a Mr. W. R. Rouse -2- 6/29/52 of such additional betterments between May 1st and September 1st. Another point in that paragraph which needs clarification is with respect to the Hyde Park additions and betterments. We are now constructing a 14-inch pipe line of some considerable length to serve the Hyde Park addition and have a contract prepared for the erection of a 300,000 gallon water tank. Neither will be completed as of September 1st - in fact, the water tank will probably not be completed until the first of the year - and we will have to clear up whether their offer includes those additions and betterments as well as all others which exist as of September 1st, or just what they had in mind. With respect to lettered paragraph (f) we at one time had been urging the District to eliminate from the proposed 507 acres certain abutting lands, particularly three quarter sections lying immediately westerly of the water bearing lands upon which the wells are located and three quarter sections running east and west at the northern extremity of our property. Our discussions of any restrictions were, in my mind, based upon the elimination of those particular sections. Also, our tentative talks related to a ten-year restriction. The covenant referred to in lettered paragraph (f) refers to a 50-year restriction and also would prevent us from drilling the proposed second shop well, which proposal is now under consideration. Obviously that paragraph will have to be clarified. The paragraph on the second page of the proposal relative to the right of the District to withdraw the proposal, I think was put in primarily as a matter of window dressing in view of the opposition by certain elements in the city to the proposed bond issue and the feeling that the District could make a better deal by condemnation. However, it might have been put in as an "out” in case we cannot agree upon the terms of a contract of sale. I might also draw your attention to the fact that in our earlier negotiations and correspondence we discussed the disposition to be made of the $33s,000 - in round figures - which were advances in aid of construe-