WATER SUPPLIES AND WELL RECORDS. 



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be collected. As bearing- on the general value of unflergTonnd water 

 may be included here the following press bullclin by t!ie writer, 

 issued by the Survey during the year. 



THE UTILITY OF WELL RECORDS.' 



The water supply stored in the earth is a resource the value of 

 which can not be expressed in figures, since upon the water supply 



Fig. 25. — Flowing artesian well at Palatka. 



is dependent both plant and animal life as well as human exist- 

 ence and comfort. VVithout water, soil fertility would fail, all 

 vegetation would quickly die, all activities of man would cease 

 and the earth would become a barren waste, ^^^ater is the one 



*Press Bulletin No. 4, issued by the Florida State Geological Survey. 

 January 15, 1914. 



