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m , f l Report qn Las Vegas. Nevada Water Supply Introductory When the Skn Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, following negotiations between Wm. A. Clark and E. H. Harriman, began unhindered construction of the present Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad i etween C<.x.t.nLt: and lips Angeles, Clark purchased a large tract of land on both sides of the adopted line through Las Vegas. The tract embraced valuable springs two miles west of the railroad, ranch property on the northeast, and the site south of the ranch property which was decided upon as the future location of the city. This purchase, which carried with it a requirement that the adjoining Stewart Burial Plot should be supplied with 4 miners' inches of water (equal to 63,160 gallons per day), was made by deed of December 8, 1902 from Helen J., Eliza J., Wm# J. and Hiram R. Stewart and Evallne S. Coffey to W. A. Clark, who con-veyed it to the SP,LA&SLRRCo. by deed of July 2, 1903. Curing the railroad's construction a redwood stave pipe line -as laid from the springs to the Las Vegas station grounds, and a looomo E g W8ter 8tatlon ereot*a- completion of the railroad (May, 1905), the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was Incorporated, and the' ranch and towns! te areas were conveyed to It by deed of May 8 , 1905. Clark-s Las Vegas Townslte was platted and placed on thec umiaarrkKeett, Ia n1d Hthe LVLendWCo. laid its distribution system of water pipes through the townsite; these lines were of redwood stave pipe. Connectio with the railroad water main transmission line at the edge of th station