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Las Vegas - May 1, 1953 Mr. tf. H. Johnson - Los Angeles Please refer to your letter dated April 23, 1953, File 733**# relative to proposed changes in lease of Railroad property to Mr. F. J. Purdy. I contacted Mr. Purdy today, in the field, and went over the whole situation with him. He stated that your proposal to terminate two lease audits (Nos. A 66293 and A 67443), effective April 30, 1953# and to prepare one new lease to cover the entire area with a total frontage of 620 ft. on roadway, as indicated on map attached to your letter, which lease would call for an annual rental for the entire parcel of #357.50— payable semi-annually in advance for a two years period ending April 30, 1955# subject to reciprocal termination on 30 days notice, which lease would also provide that lessee would pay taxes on land and Improvements, is satisfactory to him. Mr. Purdy stated that if new lease is prepared along the lines mentioned above, he will move the fence shown on exhibit attached to lease audit No. A 66293 as an encroachment in the road­way area to a point immediately south of existing power line poles, which would no doubt remove this encroachment from the roadway area. Referring to print attached to your letter, I note that you show a distance of 15 ft. from ©enter line of railroad track to the easterly line of proposed leg.se. If this distance of 15 ft. is used, the easterly line of the lease would lie on the slop of railroad embankment and would, therefore, suggest that it might be better to make this distance 25 ft. instead of 15 ft., which would bring the lease line down to the toe of slop. This would be satis­