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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 of 1,144 houses and obligated the Water Company to refund |155,858. 89L afso Vre gwaast erL-amuad in& deixvtiesnisoinosn.s to various builders in various sub­( a) Sfoomure dofw eltlhienseg uhnoiutsse,s, as listed, really ©outain (d) Oofc cutphiee d1,, 14(4M ady we1,l li1n9g4s3) ,l iasntde d thaeb omvea,j or4i50t yw eofr e thteh en 6as9 4 sroeomna iasn incgi tyw ousledw abg©e faavcaiilliatbliee s fowre reo ccauvpaialnacbyl e. A. L. Worewick, an architect of 14 years standing in Las Vegas, stated he had been handling probably half of the building program for the local and outside banks previous to the Federal Housing set-up*s advent in Las Vegas. He said this had amounted to probably 900 of the 2,000 units in Las Vegas designed to house families. These units are all in addition to the contracts en­tered into by builders with the Las Vegas Lend & Water Company already mentioned. Witness Worswiok further testified that in several months, when employment in Las Vegas is stabilized there mil be at lease 1,000 more housing units than are now needed. He reached this conclusion after allowing for construction work in this vicin­ity slowing up and the excess mechanics would be leaving. T. M. Carroll, a real-estate dealer and insturance man for 25 years in las Vegas and who was not interested, financially, in any of the building projects entered into under Rule 9(e), tes­tified his business was selling and renting houses already con­structed. He says his calls are mostly for furnished houses and states that he has 25 to 30 vacant lots listed for sale, already accessible to city water. A. II, Folger, Superintendent of the Las Vegas Land & later Company, took the stand and In his Exhibit Ho. 1 brought the facts in his letter of May 1, 1943, up-to-date and included 365 ad­ditional units embraced in two Army housing projects and the HI -3-