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Mr. Strong in a telegram of February 12, following a visit to Las Vegas the day before said he felt certain that all of the facilities except perhaps one of the last two wells, will be needed this year. LVLandWCo. Distribution of later to City Consumers From 1905 to 1927, the LVLandWCo. with its distribution lines served only consumers in Clark’s Las Vegas Townsite, but in the latter year a pipe line was laid northerly from the LA&SL transmission line west of the station grounds to reach the original Las Vegas Townsite. In 1928, purchase of the water systems of the Hawkins Land and Water Co. and S. W. Craner gave the company access to Hawkins Addition, Hawkins South Addition, Buck’s Subdivision, Fairview and Pioneer Heights. In 1930 the water lines of the Parkview Mutual Water Co. were acquired, and in 1934 the South Nevada Land and Development Company conveyed its lines in Wardie Addition to the LVLandWCo. More recently the company has extended its distribution system to reach the new and rapidly filling subdivisions of Vega Verdi, Park Place, H.F.M. & M. Additions and the Federal Housing Project, and authority has been given to extend water lines into Gibson & Jones and Blltmore additions. Except for a very small area provided for by Independents, the entire city is sup­plied with water from the LVLandWCo.'s mains. All of the newer and many of the older homes are landscaped; this principally accounts for the substantial increase in water consump­tion per customer compared with the average of several years ago. The purchased distribution lines were mostly of wood stave pipe; with the exception of wrought iron pipe used in 1907 and 1910, the -6-