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booster pumps, reservoirs, water treatment plant, eto.* in­stalled at a cost in excess of #5,000,000.00. At the meeting last night, the engineers advised the committee that the Basis water system had been subjected to considerable wear and tear, besides being installed in a hurry as a war emergency measure, and that they I the committee! Should therefore expect to be saddled with the entire cost of a line from the Bake* This statement was made in response to a rumor that the National Government might be persuaded to give the system to Clark County without cost. The Basic Magnesium water line operating costs, in­cluding Cost of Water Purchased (at hake!, Supply and Transmission, Storage and Treatment, was #32*50 per million gallons* Based on & maximum demand of 14,000,000 gallons per day (which ws ap­proached last Summer) the cost would be #22,950*00 per month. Our sales now run #13,000*00 per month* The BMJ operating cost above quoted does not Include depreciation, reserve for replace­ment, taxes nor interest on investment, and contemplates delivery only half-war to has Vegas* The capacity i f their water treatment plant is 20 million gallons per day, and 3 million gallons per day of this amount must be delivered to the present Basic Magnesium Project and the town of Henderson adjoining* Frankly, I do not see what could be accomplished by the proposed plan, except that it might make a supply of water available for irrigation in the has Vegas Valley (at the expense - 3 -