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ble interest in the subject of the city water supply ever since I 
have been in the city, and more particularly since the proposition 
to install an expensive filtration plant, and I have made §ome at- 
tempts to get the subject fairly considered. I have failed, how- 
ever, in several of these attempts. The subject had a nominal 
investigation some ten years ago but the artesian method was 
practically ignored and an expensive filtration plant was recom- 
mended. When the question was revived again recently and a 
Pure Water Commission was created I communicated with said 
Commission, sending a letter to the public meeting — which 
letter, however, was never read — and the subject of artesian 
water supply was again ignored, and a similar report, making 
a similar recommendation, was again presented, upon which 
the question of issuing bonds is now pending, the initial bonds 
being set at one million dollars. 
I have to thank especially Mr. J. L. Record and Mr. Luther 
Twichell, of the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co., and Mr. 
M. D. Rhame, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 
for assistance in the collecting and preparation of the materials 
of this report. 
It is only as a resident of the city and a tax payer, and as a 
geologist who knows that such expense is wholly unnecessary, 
that I attempt again to set forth this project with the hope that 
it may receive due consideration. 
EVIDENCE ON THE DEPOSITION OF LOESS. 
LtJELLA AONES OWEN, St. JOSCph, Mo. 
PLATE XX. 
Much has been written on loess deposition but those up- 
holding the merits of the two opposing theories have been un- 
able to agree that any evidence yet discovered could be ac- 
cepted as conclusive. This, however, cannot be regarded as 
due to deficiencies in the character of the testimony so much as 
unaccountably wide differences in interpretation. The aeolian 
supporters are not more firm in the belief that original 
deposition is still in full progress than are those of the aqueous 
theory that the present is a distinctly separate epoch in geologic 
history, in which the wind has assumed importance as a 
"world-power" for the first time. While one assumes that land 
