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lillll Los Angeles, August 17, 1939. File 1-74-go Mr. Leo A. MoKanee: 1 hare your letter of August 15th in connec­tion with the Stewart burial plot problem, and for your information I am enclosing copy of letter on this sub­ject written by Mr. Renwick to Mr. Bracken May 12, 1934. I suggest you check into the Nevada law with respect to our obligation to deliver this water at any definite place, and also whether the Sevada law is.similar to the law set forth In the Bean case quoted in the letter of 1934. I also suggest, as we discuseed Tuesday while I was in Las Vegas, that either you, or you and Mr. Bracken together, take up this matter with Miss Stewart*s attorney with the thought of having him sug­gest to the Stewart heirs that the company pay for the removal of these bodies from the lot to the cemetery and that we be relieved outright from the obligation to furnish water, or that the obligation be modified to furnish water only when we have an exoess supply. I suggest the latter alternative In view of the fact that this land is probably worth considerably more If it has prospective water. It would seem to me that It might be possible to work out some compro­mise. I believe Kr. Bracken was to give consider­ation to the cost of piping this water to such point as we may be obliged to deliver it in order to avoid loss through evaporation. 1. S. Bennett. Copy toi Mr. Walter R. Bracken EEnEeBl;.FC