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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL P U B L IS H E S $fi - . « ; Water District 1 Plans Moving Toward Climax f Estrmates on the cost of con­struction of the 24-inch pipe line I from Henderson‘ to Las Vegas,! together with the storage -and pipe-line facilities in town, are i j now being prepared for consider- i lation by the board of directors ; jof the Las Vegas Valley district,! according to, Thomas A. Camp-' l bell chairman. These figure's, together with! ithe purchase price of. the Las'; I Vegas Land and Water company, i will determine the amount of ! ttie bond issue Jo be presented for approval at the special elec-1 tion, to be held sometime after January 1, 1951, and which will i permit early construction to get ! junder way on the project, Camp­bell ‘said. ^ The board yesterday, retained !the firm,, of 0 ’ Melveny and. !Myers Of Los Angeles, as con-, sultants on the bond issue and! their representatives will work closely with the water district I officials in preparing the var­ious steps which''must meet the, approval of the eventual purch-, asers of the issue which willi run into several million dollars and probably will be the largest single public bond issue ever floated in the state of Nevada. Campbell said the inventory of the water company had been pra-' ctically completed and that it was the boards hope to have a final answer from the utility within the next few days. :