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extraordinary repairs, which are often quite large ; one of $10 per share 

 has been determined upon by the Directors of our local company, to pay 

 off the old debt and build a reservoir. This would add another $9,000 

 cost on 900 shares to cover 900 acres of land — one share of stock being 

 required for each acre of land. 



From this you can see that the difference in cost of the two systems is 

 greatly in favor of driven wells, or a group of say one half dozen artesian 

 wells connected in the same way, so all could be pumped from at once. 



I will send you by this mail a copy of the New York Scientific American, 

 giving what was to me a very interesting account of the Brooklyn City sys- 

 tem. I also send you other copies of the same paper showing how groups 

 of twenty or more driven wells similarly connected, have been in success- 

 ful operation for a period of years on the Trent, by the great breweries, 

 near London, England. 



I will say in regard to my plant, that when I first applied my power and 

 started my pump it would throw about 1,000 gallons per minute, but the 

 stream gradually became smaller, till, after thirty minutes consecutive 

 working, it ceased entirely. 



Tests applied to an extra well, not connected with the main plant, but 

 within four feet of them, showed that the water would fall two feet in the 

 disconnected well in the half hour while pumping, and evidently the fall 

 must have been much greater in those 16 wells from which the pump was 

 directly drawing its supply ; thus, you see, I actually sucked the ground 

 dry to a level with the bottom of the wells. I have, however, just as much 

 confidence in the correctness of the principle, or system, only I was unfor- 

 tunate in placing it in too dry a locality, or did not go deep enough. 



I am satisfied your hearers cannot be otherwise than interested in listen- 

 ing to your remarks on this subject, and if I can be of any further assist- 

 ance to you I will be pleased to aid you as far as I can. 



Yours truly, 



KENYON COX. 



APPENDIX "C.' ; 



WINE INDUSTRY. 



State of California, Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, ") 

 Office of the Chief Executive Viticultural Officer, 



San Francisco, August 22, 1886. ) 

 Hon. N. P. Chipman, Red Bluff: 



Dear Sir : Your note came duly to hand just as I arrived from the East, 

 but I have delayed replying, because I had no time to write deliberately, 

 and now I am hurried to get to Los Angeles and return by the first of Sep- 

 tember. In my last report (second annual) there is a chapter on produc- 

 tion, over-production, etc., which contains most of the salient ideas as I 

 conceive them. My recent studies of the situation in the East convince me 

 that when we have an organized trade, dealing directly with consumers — 

 somewhat after the manner of the beer business — we shall find it difficult 

 to keep pace with the demand for consumption, if our wines are carefully 

 nurtured from best qualities of vines, and preserved from adidteration and 

 admixture with spurious goods. The distinctive American will become, by 

 taste and choice, a wine drinker whenever the opportunity is presented to 



