Wells Are Drying Up

WELLS ARE DRYING UP

Supply Has Been Tapped by the Water Company

WILL SUPPLY HOLD OUT

A Question Agitating Residents of the Second Ward Who Find Their Wells Lowered

Has the expenditures of the Ann Arbor Water Co. in its search for water been in vain? This is the query that is agitating the minds of the residents of W. Liberty street. During the summer the company has been putting down numerous wells on its property just west of Eighth street, and has been congratulating itself that at last its search for water, in sufficient quantities to supply the city, was at an end and the looked-for had been found.

Now, however, the residents in that section are seriously canvassing the question of whether the company has not been fooled again and that the flowing wells will prove a delusion. They base their opinions on the fact that despite the excessive rains the past season, many wells and springs in that section that have never failed to yield a flow of water, have gone dry and in others the supply is hardly adequate for the domestic uses of one family, where formerly scores were wont to procure water from them if necessary.

Matthew Lutz, the furniture manufacturer on Eighth street, reports that since the Water Co. commenced pumping from its new wells a spring in front of his factory that has never failed to give a good sized stream has dwindled down to one-third the usual flow and that the well at his residence. 1108 W. Liberty, has become dry, so that he has to procure his supply of water from the neighbors.

At the residence of Jacob Bissinger, 929 W. Liberty street, is a well that has always given a supply of clear spring water. This, too, has failed and the family say they can attribute it to nothing else than the large number of wells put down by the Water Co.

Wm. M. Kaercher, who resides at 1022 W. Liberty, is another who complains of the Water Co.'s wells. The well on the place occupied by him bas always been noted for its unfailing supply of water but recently it has lessened so that where, formerly, he could have supplied twenty or thirty families there is now hardly enough for their own use.

And so it is becoming a question if the Water Co. has not tapped the fountain head of the various wells in this vicinity and their wells will not, also. finally fail.