UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Transcription
Mr* S & t f & t & 't S m w 39, 1938* 1# m&ci® a number of measurements, with' l~yailen cans, of the amount of w&tor consumed by coolers of various types, and f incl that the i*&aufaetut ai type with 1/4* inlet, but no recapture pump, usee 9 gallons-per- hour However* these are not ordinarily operate! at night, sad' filling a maximum of 1C. hours ope rat 1 on. would amount to 144 • alio--a per cay The home-made .type uses 33 ?2&i ona per hour and ?on the snr.a if-hour basis would use .358 gallons por day. At the present time, we are veins? about 3,500,-* 000 gallons of water per day to supply 'the city of fc«e Vegas, or a$>pr ~ xlmatsly 475 gallons per capita, based on an estimated population of S,0€G people* If each family use ! 353 .gallons per day for the water cooler (which, however* then-'do Slot,- m the majority of the machine# are manufactured and consume much lass than that) , each family to contain five members, would result -in a per capita. consumption for cooling p*r~ poses of 36 gallons, or less thaix 10'per cent, of the total If I can furnish any additional information on • this subject,' ple&ae write me-and w# will get right after it* * Tours very truly, m^s'a h , fenAc&ik, Vioa-Pre @ident. oc - Mr, 1, H, Guild, (with copy of statement*)
