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IAS VEGAS EVENING l|| BEVIEW-JOUHNAL November 5. 19^8 Harry E. M iller j To Head Valley I Water District Harry E. Miller, long-time resident of Las Vegas and former chief of police of this community, yesterday was named. president of the Las Vegas Valley Water district at the organization meet­ing of the directors. The meeting was held in the chamber of com­merce office and Miller’s choice j w as unanimous among the seven directors elected at the recent water district poll. Thomas Campbell, local real estate dealer, was named vice-president and Spencer Butter­field was chosen secretary-treasurer, both by unanimous vote. Vic Shurtleff was named clerk of the board. Miller, in accepting the post,j said that, he would do his best| to find, his way in the matter o f•' the forming of the district and said: “We all need guidance and I know we all are agreed to do everything possible to get the district under way immediately.” ' Frank Gusewelle, chairman of the county commission, in open­ing the meeting expressed full confidence of the county in the directors elected and urged the directors to “make all the speed possible in order to get the water into the valley as soon as possi­ble.” He: offered the good offices of the county board to the directors and informed them the present board stood ready to assist in any manner possible. He urged the directors to give their attention to Fred Barker, representative of Garrett-Broomfield company, of Denver, who had been work­ing with the county _board in the initial Steps of setting up the wa­ter district. Miller, in a direct question re­garding the status of the Garrett- Broomfield company, was in­formed that the Water district was under no obligation to the company, that what the firm had done was a part of their promo­tion service and that, when the time came to award any con­tracts that the only requirement which was asked was that the firm b e given due credit for the work it had done. Robert E. Jones, district at­torney, congratulated the di­rectors for accepting the post and said “it definitely is sr pub­lic service.” He said' there would have to be study given toward strength­ening the present water district law and then introduced Barker who explained the history of the proposed district. He said that a survey of the facilities now available and the engineering survey on the new pipelines would cost approxi­mately $25,000 and informed the directors that for this amount of money they could get a complete |job done. W. H s 9 % He then outlined a 10-point program which, he said, was set up in chronological order. The program was as follows: ' 1. Form a water district. (Ac­complished.) 2. Exercise the authority of the district to conserve the ar­tesian9 supply of the district. 3. Authorize and finance a comprehensive engineering study of all factors involved in supple­menting the present water sup­ply with water from Lake Mead: 4. Negotiate for the purchase of the present system now owned by the Las Vegas Land and Wa­ter company. 5. Negotiate with the state of ; Nevada for the purchase or lease of the-BMI facilities. 6. As a result of a favorable engineering recommendation, to construct and maintain a con-fnecting pipe line, with pumping equipment, from BMI to the Las Vegas valley area. 7. Extend the present service and distribution system to pro­vide water, from the artesian (basin and the supply line to all points where demand exists and [supply is economically feasible. 8. Negotiate a contract with the air base to supply the re­quirements of the base. 9. Supply irrigation water to | such points as are economically j feasible. 10. Make long-range plans to i further augment the water sup-ply of tfep valley by construction I of such works as are necessary I to irrigate class one and two irrigable 1 mds in the valley.