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    2*08 Angela Sf Hoy 2i#f* 1934# bIs j u i 'V Veil, Lae Vegas <M* Tile 623* Ur* f# H, Khioto5rbo<ft»r* Your letter Say 17th* enclosing file frcea Hr* Calvin* oonoearning use to fee mde of now well fust ooapleted at las Yogas* Hewda* ? * | aa attacking print shoeing location of the noil In relation to the ^rin g* ana pipe lines foming the water system at Las Vcgae. At present eater is supplied from two springs which 1 hare noted as So* l aad So* 2 on the nop* fh© eater from these springs is carried in 12” tile pipe lines to a forebay in the head of the 16** pipe line sorrlng the tom* At th© springs an attempt was made to onelos© the springs* proper within concrete walls and while this wm quite successful at Spring Ho* 1* dt Spring Ho* 2* owing to the large area over which water rises m& thr bogey condition of the soil* the ©oaorete wall failed and water now enters the pipe from the natural spring baste which covers approa&rntoly one-half acre* Shis basin {ale© the basin at Spring Ho* 1* but to a lesser ©stmt) lie s within a natural drainage soars© so that daring stores the surface waters find their way into the springs and of soar as* oarxy more or less ia^uritios into the spring basins* We w ill be successful in protecting Spring Ho* 1 from this source o f oontmiaation, but it w ill not be possible to protect the basin of Spring Ho* 2* (Therefore, it is planned to eoribine the water from the now well with the water from Spring Ho* 1 at the forebay at the head of the 16* line and allow the water from Spring Ho* I to flow through the natural open channel to the ranch land situated in Bootless 25 mad 25 as indicated in. groan on nap#