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Las Vegas Valley Water Diet. -£ - M a rc h 19, 1954 tapping an artesian fta* wktek produced & flow of over six cubic feet of water per second. Three separate applications were made to the btate Engineer of the StM* of Nevada for permission to appropriate said waters One by Las Vegas Land and Water Company for £.30 e .f .s . there of for municipal supply and one by said Water Company for 1.8b c . i . s . therebf for irrig a ­tion purposes; the third, for l. 5 e .f .s . thereof by the Los Amgeles k Salt Lake Railroad Company for railroad purposes, fire protection and domestic. Perm its were issued on said applications and all of the condi­tions of said permits complied with and there now appears of record in the office of the County Recorder of Clark County, Nevada, certificates of ap­propriation issued by the btate Engineer of the State of Nevada certifying that the applicants have appropriated and have applied to a beneficial usa the amounts of water specified, and that the date of the priority of eaca said appropriation is August £3, 19£4. The application by the Land and hater Company for municipal purpose and its application for irrigation purposes recited that they were to be concurrent* the reason being that m ore water was developed than could be used for municipal purposes at the time and in order to prevent wastage the excess was used to irrigate the bt swart ranch, but with the understanding that as the municipal demands increased the applicant would use the irrig a ­tion water for municipal supply, even to the extent of depriving the otewart ranch of irrigation water. The £. 5 c .f . s . appropriated by the Railroad Company for railroad purposes is included in the sale to the Water d istrict, the Railroad Company reserving the right to apply to the State Engineer for permission to change the point of diversion of said £ .5 e .f .s . from said Well No. 1 to a well located on its shop ground. As the population grew, the F irst Forties drilled more wells so that at the present time there are altogether eleven wells upon the lands being purchased by the D istrict, the waters from which are appropriated for muni­cipal supply and certificates of appropriation issued by the biate Engineer of the State of Nevada are of record in the County R eco rd ers office, for all of the waters from each of said wails. The total amount appropriated, according to said certificates of appropriation is 2 1.67 e . f . s . , including the 6 .8 8 e .f .s . from said Weil No. 1. it Is my opinion that the F irs t Parties and their successors and assigns are entitled to use* for municipal supply* all of the waters produced from these eleven wells* and I am further of the opinion that should the under­ground squatters from which these wells draw their respective amounts of