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Las Yegas, Nevada, Evening Review-Journal, May 17, 1938. City Delays Action Participation In W ate Its $250 • Survey Declaring that “the city f e n ­ces are in such a state that con­stant ‘nibbles’ on a short budget w ill bring us into serious trouble,” Joe Ronnow c i t y f i - nance commissioner last nigh urged delay on the part of the ' city in contributing $250 to the f fund to be used for an artesian i water belt survey in this section I by the government. 1 As a result of Ronnow’s re-i quest, action oh the matter was | postponed and the committee ap pointed to . investigate the pro posal of donating $250 was con • | tinued to study the possibilities of raising the $250 V some other I quarter. R Ronnow declared at the mee - ling last night that: I am m favor of the survey, but our fi­nances are in /such a condition that we should make every ef I I f - t o see "if the city’s $250 can­n o t be secured from some other source.” The finance commissioner ex­pressed the opinion that the coun- Itv should be called upon to put up the entire amount necessary for the survey because, There are no wells in the city and the city w ill not benefit from such a survey. If industry is brought j into this section, /the city wilt | benefit only indirectly anyway^ i City Engineer C. D .. paKei pointed out that the Lorenzi well and several others in that area are in the city limits, and that several wells are in operation „ in other parts ql the city, i Ronnaw, however, said that “there are other agencies m the community which w ill benefit more from such a survey than the city, and it is my opinion that they should pay |g| it- He called attention to the fact that there was a possibility that the water company might aid m ; defraying the-cost of the survey, and suggested the committee, of which he is the sole member,| contact Walter Bracken, vice president and general managei of the utility. . , . ~ + It was / announced last night that the county had promised $250 as its part of the expense for the rurvey. ? The total cost of the survey, which .would be conducted by the U. S. geological survey, has been fixed at <$t1i ,n0o0n0 , noff wwhhiicchh the county was expected to. pay $250, the city $250 and the geo­logical survey $500.