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December 2, 19^8 V 23-3, Hr* Frank Qm&jortt c/o James Softool* Boom #17 5810 Sc&rrett Avenue Kansas City, Missouri Dear Franks This letter Is written In response to your Inquiry of November 2fth regarding our water supply* We do not have any rlvers In this part of the desert* so we obtain our water from the artesian or underground channel. The water in the artesian channel comes from snow meltage In the Charleston Mountains* about 35 miles west of Las Vegas, and flows underground until ws tap the supply with a well* whereupon the water rises to the surface and overflows. We then capture the water in a pipe line and transmit it to a large concrete structure called a settling-basin. At this point It drops any small grains of •and It may have picked up In the underground channel* and emerges from the settling-basin as clear* sparkling artesian water. It Is then carried through mors pipe lines to the big reservoir, thenoe Into the city* where smaller service lines carry the water into homes and buildings* We now have eleven big artesian wells* drilled to a depth of hOO to 1200 feet* and these wells produce morethan fifteen million gallons per day* The population of Las Vegas is 2h*000 and It is located In Southern Nevada* lope you get an *A* in your Science Claes. Very truly yours* Central Manager
