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Los Angeles, June 11, 1953 80-11 Mr. W, H. Johnson: (cc - Mr. Wa. Reinhardt Mr. C. M. Bates) This will supplement my letter to you of June 9# 1953# with reference to agreement dated June 1, 1953# between LA&SL, UPRR, LVL&W and Las Vegas Valley water District for the sale of the water system at Las Ve­gas to the District. Zn addition to the provisions of Paragraph 4 I also call your attention to the provisions of Section 2 of the agreement, found on page 11, which require the first parties to insert provisions in any document conveying or leasing an interest in the property desig­nated as the "shop grounds" excepting and reserving wa­ter rights and the right to drill for and put to bene­ficial use water produced therefrom or a covenant re­stricting the drilling of wells. The shop grounds are defined in the agreement in Section 2 as the lands bounded on the west by a line parallel to and 1,600 feet westerly of the west line of Main Street, on the east by the westerly line of said Main Street, on the north by Bonanza Road and on the south by Charleston Boulevard. No sale or lease of property in the shop grounds should be made until the provisions of Section 2 are complied with. £. E, Bennett ECR:MSB