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Las Vegas - December 5, 1951 Mr. Wm. Reinhardt - Los Angeles CG: Mr. E.E. Bennett - Los Angeles Attached is copy of exchange of correspondence between the Nevada Public Service Commission and Young & Smith Ready Mix Concrete Company. Several months ago Young A Smith, operators of a transit mix plant at Wyoming Avenue and Industrial Road, Las Vegas, requested advice as to water rates. As there was no classification for this type of operation I advised them the only similar classi­fication was concrete work for which the then established rate was 4.0$ per cubic yard of concrete. This, under recently approved schedules was increased to per cubic yard. Young A Smith considered the rate excessive and after some discussion I suggested in my letter of April 19, 1951 to Mr. Renwick, a new classification be added to our application for increased rates as follows: Transit Mix Plants Up to 1000 c.y. per month $10.00 1000 to 2500 c.y. per month 20.00 Over 2500 c.y. per month 30.00 Which rates would return approximately 20$ per 1000 gallons. Our annual average return for all classes of service under the old schedule was appro xliaately 6.0$ per 1000 gallons and under the new schedule approximately 7.0$. During the month of October, Young A Smith processed 2267 cubic yards of transit mix concrete which at 5.5$ resulted in a charge of $124.67. Based on 40 gallons of water per cubic yard of concrete, their consumption approximated 90,000 gallons of water or an average cost of $1.38 per 1000 gallons. 1