Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Geological Survey of Michigan: For the Year 1904 The explanation of the failure of wells in the region in question is similar to that in like districts at many points throughout the country, and it is with the object of calling attention to certain general factors, both temporary and permanent, which tend to induce a shortage of the ground water supplies over large areas that the present paper has been prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.