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Water Unit Pipeline Buy Only Out Now Acquisition of the Henderson! j pipe line and pumping facilities by the Las Vegas valley water; district appeared to be the only solution to the hope of the dis- I trict to bring Lake Mead water! : iftto Las Vegas, it was indicated today as the general services j administration returned the p ro-! posed —interim contract to -the ! Colorado river commission for j revision. 1 Jess Larson, GSA chief in Washington, sent a letter to Governor Charles H. Russell, which was received in Carson ? City yesterday, in which he said ! he was returning the contract for revision and an air mail let- [ ter, explaining the revisions, j would follow. That letter is expected in the capital today. It was reliably understood, I however, that the legal minds I had ruled there was little pos- j sibility -that the water line and j pumping,facilities could be turn- i ed over to the water district for ] $1, because of the legal techni- ? calities involved. It also was reported that the Nevada state board of control has taken a position that, because the facilities are the prop-" erty of the state there must. ! be a substantial and equitable j consideration made in any transfer to another agency. Attorneys for the district have taken the-same position as the board of control on the theory that, unless there is a satisfac- ! j tory consideration, there might I be' a taxpayer's suit filed which I might delay the whole project , I ^interminably. The contract which the GSA | has turned back to the state was ! one for the sale of a stipulated. amount of water (one-third of j the capacity of the pipeline) to j , the* district for a pefiod of 40 years. • This then, it was pointed out, leaves only the possibility of a !sale as the remaining method of securing the facility. Las Vegas Review Journal-JvO jr 26, I 95I ?o-