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Las Vegas,Nevada REVIEW - JOURNAL August 8, 19^8 Water District For jLas Vegas Valley Moves Step Ahead August 30, at 10 a.m. was, set as the date for the hearing on | the formation of the'Lais Vegas [ valley water district, plans, for [which have been under way for [the past several months, it was announced Friday by the board of county commissioners. The hearing, which will be open , for any protests which might be forthcoming against the l V j ™ o± proposed district, is die last step ties and means of acquiring them There will be seven divisions .in./fee district and each diviMefe will-,have one director. When the directorate is estab­lished, then the board will take the matter out of the Hands of the county board and will func­tion as a separate entity entir'e- ly. It will be necessary for the board of directors to provide for' a survey of the existing facili- necessary before a district for­mation election can be called, it was reported. James H. Down, president, and Joe McQuilkin, managing direc­tor, of the chamber of commerce, appeared before the county board on Friday an announced that ev­erything was in readiness for the next step on the formation of the district to determine the status of the line from Lake Mead to Basic and the, feasibility of carrying the line from Basic into Las Vegas. It was reported Friday that an engineering firm . probably will have to be retained to work out the enjgineering details of the project as well as to set a price on the distribution system now existing in Las Vegas be- McQuilken said that the peti-1 cause, if the project goes through tions for the formation of the I the district probably will have district, which were circulated I to acquire the Las Vegas Land ,here last spring, had been turned] and Water system now distribut- : over to the county assessor and [ ing the water locally. ‘ ------HH Hj| It was pointed out that 75 per cent of the users of the water district will be from Las Vegas and the distribution system must be purchased. Frank Gusewelle, chairman of the county board, complimented had been cheeked for sufficiency of names. He said that the as­sessor reported there were 843 certified names on the petitions, almost twice as many as the five per cent needed to call the elec­tion After the hearing is held, on 1 the chamber of commerce for th< August 30, if there are no legiti- j work it had done on the projec mate complaints, the county will f and said: “There should be —- Mvt i A J. IHAVA oT nv, L -.1. ’1 then set up an election to de termfne the will of the voters of the district in regard to the formation of the district, and, at the same time, to elect directors for the district. In the election, the voters will be called upon -------- —« MV, JilU move delay than is absolutely necessary in this matter. It is of vital importance to the en­tire valley. It will take two or three yearn to get water from the lake into Las Vegas after | the district is set up, and we WJiC vwbcxa will UC t-etl-teu I ^ up? ailu W) to state whether they wish to * should not waste any mote tim Xln.#v l _ _ ! tllQ-n ie L• «« form the district and also to name their ehoiee for. director from the slate which will be set up by the county commission under the state statute. ^ ----------- ***-‘J' J.AWJ. C X-l than is absolutely necessary.” It is probable, according tc Down and McQuilkin, that at details will be worked out well in advance of the formation elec­tion and that, by the time the directors of the district are elec­ted, they will be presented with a tentative program which they can follow.