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LAS VEGAS REVIEW JOURNAL P u b l i s h e d ...... JAN 20. 1949 to ascertain the probable cost of ; an entire new pumping and pipe- j ling system to bring water into ; Las . .Vegas, V alley. from Lake Mead, and' an estimate Is ex­pected to be ready shortly for j the governing board of the re-: cently formed water district!-?^'; | The study envisions j struction of a new pumping plant \ I similar to the one now supplying | Basic Magnesium plant, and' a 40-inch pipe line with a capacity of, 26,000,000 gallons per day. Route of the additional pipe­line would i follow the BMP fa-. cility as far as the manganese ores plant, where it would* split j with a 30-inch line-crossing the valley to the Clark County Air­port, thence to the “strip” dis- ; trict to supply the hotels- and : others customers in that area, l and connecting with the city, water system on South Fifth street. The other branch would feed the Air Force' Base north I of town.. Indications are that the pres-- ent system furnishing BMP will, not have sufficient* excess capac- , ity to take care of anything ex­cept the .air force base, and that it would be preferable to build an entire new project in order to ( obtain the .desired amount of (water for the yalley. It is pointed'Out that while the« I initial cost may be high, it is jmueh more sound to anticipate (future-needs as far as possible land build ample facllitie&inow. j (The expense of proceeding by de­grees, perhaps in two or more separate projects, would be two or three times the amount re­quired to build one big liifei to start with sufficient, capacity'to take care of expected develop- j Board Studies Cost of New Studies were being made today ment for 10 or 20 years.