or Eleven Thousand Dollars. This was also the price of the new electric panel board. Early in 1981, George, Jr. was out that way and was told that one acre across the street from the ranch had been sold for $150,000.00 for a McDonald's Restaurant.

The refrigeration equipment consisted of an ammonia Viltor compressor, two condensors, two chillers, pipes, etc. A large concrete tank, open at the top, received the returned chilled water. From there it was pumped through the chillers and then to the spray chambers located in the different buildings and then back again to the open top concrete tank. In the Summer time, it was not uncommon to see watermelons floating around in the tank being cooled off.

To have the necessary water for the condensors, a well was drilled, 150 feet in depth, later 200 feet in depth. This supply well was under the sidewalk on Central Avenue near the condensors in the Luhrs Building basement. The capacity of the supply well was 1,200 gallons of water per minute. The disposal well for the water that had passed through the condensors, was under the sidewalk in the basement,in the southeast corner of the two story building on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Madison Street. The underground water, which ran south, was pumped up by the supply well, going through the condensers and returned to the disposal well, which was south of the supply well.

At the time the Luhrs wells were being drilled, the Fox Theatre, on the southeast corner of Washington Street and First

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