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Sale of M H p i Is# Vegas - June 1®, 15^113 • W 23-5 Sir# ?.* H# Knickerbocker, & m * a l Manager,, I»os Angeles, California* Bear Sir: With farther reference to ray letter Jure 6th, ©atlining the water situation at la® Yeg&s* and your reply wider personal cover June 10th; and mine of the 13th regarding use of pump to augment om supply: X agree that the per capita consumption of water in la® «egas daring the summer month a is excessive, bat I feel that we absolutely neat takp some steps to meet this condition which arises each^misraer. Tonight*a lasve of the Rev lew-Journal carries wi appeal to the con­sumers to give ns their cooperation to prevent tamooessary waste of enter, and as soon as we can awaken the City Com­mission to the gravity of the situation, we expect to put on a checker, as per our conversation, to check leaky faucets and misuse of water, similar to the arrangement In effect last year after city ordinance was passed, A few mights ago, on my return from the staring where X found no water running over the spill-way, 1 called the Mayor and City Commissioners, secured automo­biles and took the® up to the spring and settling basin so they could personally see lust what we are up against# There was no mfcsr running over the spill-way, find the level in the reservoir had dropped M inchen during the day. O f course, the pump in the railroad yard picks up a portion of this loss during the night, but it la all used up again in the day time, and it is reas enable to assume that if we are operating on the ragged edge this early in the summer, we are going to have trouble Indeed when July and August gets here.