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Mr. Knickerbocker? I I April 1. 1936 With, the expense of a mew well to be considered, I dislike to mention the necessity for renewal of the wooden pipe line between the reservoir and shop yards fence, but it is in a deplorable c o n d it io n , averaging about 50 leaks per week, this pipe has been patched and repatched u n t i l there is not mush left to hold the r e p a i r plugs, and If this pip# line gives way there will not be sufficient water delivered to supply the town through the single iron main which parallels it underground# fhe estimate made last year to cover cost of drill** ing a IE-inch well, 600 feet deep, was #5,900, plus $4,200 for a cast-iron line to bring the water from the new well to the settling basin. %is. was the contract price, but by renting a well-rig and using railroad forces, a saving of about |l§00 on this estimate could be made. 1 am convinced that this is the one solution to our problem, as an additional reservoir or reservoirs would not correct the condition because the peak load does not vary so much between day and night as it does between winter and summer, and sufficient water could not be stored dur­ing the winter months to take care of the demand during the summer« Our revenues have held up very nicely during the past year, and have not taken any decided drop on account of the large number of men cut off with the completion of Boulder Barn.