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Water Supply, las Yegas: las Yegas - June 24th, 1935. W 23-3-5 Mr. F. H. Knickerbocker, General Manager, los Angeles, California. Dear Sir: Referring to Mr. Jeffers telegram B-22 of June 21st, which I dictated to Mr. Fi^h over telephone, and also my reply B-22, corrected by him and Mr. Bennett, copies of both being herewith enclosed: After many personal interviews with both the Mayor and individual members of the City Commission, I wrote them under date of June 15th as per enclosed copy, later, at the request of the Mayor, I furnished them with water measurements from each of our sources, and am also enclosing copy of this exchange. Uhe only result of our urgent request for a city ordinance to stop waste of water, was a "resolution" whieh was passed June 22nd, as outlined in newspaper clipping whieh is also enclosed. Shis "resolution" is one of the most assinine that an intelligent board of commissioners could pass, and is entirely the brain-child of the new city attorney, who is without doubt very antagonistic to both the railroad and water company interests here in las Vegas* Have not received any further wire in reply to my B-22 from Mir. Jeffers, and will keep you advised of any other wires or requests from Omaha. She water situation at the present time is some­what better than during the fore part of June, and we are now 3^15 about holding our own; however, this is not dtue to any cooperation we are receiving from the Mayor or City Com­mission, but is due rather to the response of the people them' selves to our appeal to help save water, which is published tri-weekly in the loeal paper, and copy of which I sent you with my letter of June 13th.