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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), regarding water from well and springs, August 8, 1934.

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1934-08-08

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Walter Bracken asking for permission to fill in the swimming pool and use the company drag line to clean out the ditch to the Las Vegas Ranch so overflow could be used by the lesee rather than go to waste.

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hln000646

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Box 15 Folder R11 Wells & Spring Railroad Company
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    hln000646. Union Pacific Railroad Collection, 1828-1995. MS-00397. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d10v8dh06

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    Water from Well and Springs: Las Vegas- August 8, 1934. R-ll Mr. F. H. Knickerbocker, General Manager. Los Angeles, California. Dear Sir: I note that the Drag Line is here at work, filling up the old oil sump on the former General Construction Company lease, where a child was almost drowned sometime ago (you will note my former letter about firing the oil in this old sump.) Am wondering if it would not be advisable to use this drag line to re-fill the old swimming hole of the defunct athletic association; and it would also be a wonderful help if this drag line could be used to clean out the ditch from the reservoir to about halfway to town, as there has been nothing done to this ditch,? the other part from there to the city and down to the Ranch having been cleaned last spring by the C.W.A. employees at no cost to us except our furnishing them a few gum boots and drag forks. But this privilege has been discontinued, and the ditch from where they stopped to the reservoir is so grown over that the water needed for the Ranch is spread over the ground and in sloughs, and we are losing, due to percolation and evaporation, much of the water that should go to the Ranch for irrigation. Our Ranch has been greatly improved and benefitted by the present lessee, and although in our lease we are not required to keep the ditch from the spring to the ranch cleaned and open, yet I believe that to help Mr. Knickerbocker: #2 Aug. 8, 1934. the leasee with all the water we can give him from the supply not used by the city or the railroad company would be very much to our benefit. I would not be In favor of spending any great amount of money on this work, but if the engineers can give you an estimate of the possible cost and it meets with your approval, I would recommend that the work of cleaning the ditch be done. Yours very truly, Walter R. Bracken, State Agent - Nevada.