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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ? M i l county, anS water company all contributed Five kindred 'Dollars to , match a like m m from the \jnited States or a m & H survey oonduo** I ted- by Livingston* The amount of money ***n*t enough to ®ak® any comprehensive survey. H« only her® abbut five weeks but the survey that was wade «t,;. to test the leakage of the wells. He mad® testa on 40 tells and T find that the wells in the lest part $?? o? the valley were subject to considerable leakage} as they cam# to the center of the valley and on the task*.the leakage was very small due to the fact that as you get away from the mountains the material became denser and the leakage was due to poor well drilling leaky casing* etc* The Sund well out here leak# ahout~that and th« Lindsay well contributed to about 70 or 80$ of the leakage in the valley, there was a leakage of over 350 gallons a minute from thej Sand well. MB* SMITH? Have you any ideas or suggestion® that you would oar# to make a# to how the present water supply for the City of j&s ?#gae might be sonserved and made to go farther by the water companyt A.. I should think the first step would be to get an ordinance passed relating to these coolers, y talked with the city attorney I and to® says there has been some alk ©bout it tout they havenit feet ground to drawing up the ordinance. Ur. Bracken said last year they made an estimate of the lose of waters through those coolers. ME. FQLOPKt We mad® an actual count of the water coolers in thia trim %n& at that Urn® there were 783 and since that time they have been selling about six or eight a day* and there axe about four or five individual dealers in town. They have become very popular, f# based our estimate of the consumption on those that were pro** parly operating with an intake of a quarter inch copper tube and i we estimated the consumption would be on® hundred thousand gallons a day. ME* SOTOS* For 783? 46