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nel forty or fifty feet into the north side of Monks' Hill, and found a little 

 moisture but no flow of water. Then in 1884 Painter & Ball dug a well 

 icjfj feet deei^ with three feet of water, on what i? now the Tebbett's place, 

 near the Washington scho^jlhouse. — Ed.] 



On Villa street, on land now owned by Mr. J. Blatenburg, there is a 

 bored and jjiped well y/^ fe<:t deep, with 340 feet of water standing in it. 

 This well was sunk by Mr, Craig, after whom Craig Avenue was named, in 

 order to test the problem of artesian water in that vicinity. Further east, 

 on Villa street, S. Bundy has a well 174 feet deep. Alfred Hutchins, on the 

 corner of V^illa street and Hill Avenue, has a well ifyj feet deep, with eight 

 feet of water. A, Uecktr, corner of Villa street and Craig Avenue, has a 

 well 170 feet deep, with nineteen Uj twenty feet of water. J. D. KrxAz.has 

 a well 148 feet deep, with four feet of water. C. D. Curtis' well on Santa 

 Anita Avenue, the road that leads into Eaton Canyon, Ls 102 feet deep, 

 with two feet of water. And P. B. Eangworthy's well on Craig Avenue, is 

 130 feet deep, with four feet of water. On the Allen ranch, north of J. F. 

 Crank's place, and the one that gave name to Allen Avenue, a well was 

 dug 180 feet without finding water. On Colorado .street, H. R. Case's well 

 is 108 feet, with four or five feet of water. C. Maudlin's well is iiofieet, 

 with seven to eight feet of water. Peter Sumstine's well, corner of Colo- 

 rado street and Craig Avenue, is 93 feet deep, with twelve feet of water. I. 

 McCollum's well, J17 feet, with ten feet of water. J. R. Giddings' well, 

 no feet, and six feet of water. A, M. Byram's well, 113 feet, and ten feet 

 of water. Dr. Aikens' well, 96 feet, with four to five feet of water. On 

 Marengo Avenue, M. W. McGee has a well ninety-four feet deep, with ten 

 feet of water ; and G. T. Stamm's well is eighty feet deep. 



On Fair Oaks Avenue, M. Sanderaan's well Ls twenty -six feet deep, 

 with six to eight feet of water. John S. MilLs's well, eighteen feet, with six 

 feet of water. H. A. Wallis's well, fourteen feet, with five feet of water. 

 These three wells are all in the adobe land, down near the Raymond Hill ; 

 and at the north-east f^xjt of this hill is an outcrop of water formerly known 

 as the Bacon spring which was the head of a brook flowing down across 

 the old Bacon Ranch. [Raymond Creek.] On Columbia street, Mr. John 

 Werner has a svell ninety -six feet deep 'in which the water stands fifty-four 

 fieet, and is pure, soft water. It seems to come from a bed or stratum of 

 clay almost entirely free from the lime and iron elements which make " hard 

 water ' ' of our water supply generally, whether it comes direct from moun- 

 tain canyons, or the Arroyo, or from welLs, In the .same general vicinity 

 around Mr. Werner's we find the Edwards welLs, ("recently bought by Mr. 

 Raymond;, sixty-five feet deep, with eight feet of water; Mrs. Riggins' 

 well, seventy feet, with eight feet of water; D, Raab's well, fifty-eight 

 feet, with eighteen feet of water ; A. O. Porter and P. M, Green's well, 

 seventy feet, with eight feet water ; Judge Eaton's well, forty -six feet, with 

 six feet water. 



On the Arroyo Drive, above California street, Mr. Bruso has a well 

 forty feet deep, with twenty feet of water. Below California street, Mr. 

 Baker and Mr. Marcus, and Miss Bishop each has a well twenty feet deep, 

 with about five feet of water; and Mrs. Glover' s well is twenty-nine feet, 

 with fi%'e feet water. S. Washburn, corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Val- 

 ley street, had a well eighty-three feet deep, with ten feet of water, and a 

 steam pump to lift it ; but it caved in during the excessive rains and flood- 

 wash of Februar>' and March, 1884, and has not been reopened. 



