UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Transcription
O o 2. Z Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2, 1936. Las Vegas Land and Water Company, Las Vegas, Nevada. Gentlemen: The purpose of th is le tte r is to c a ll to your attention the provisions of the deed to your company executed o rig in a lly in 1902, whereby four miners inches of water (C a lifo rn ia measurement) are to be made a v a ilable at a l l times fo r irrig a tio n of the Stewart Burial Plot, being four acres in the NE-f- SE-J See. 27, T. 20 S. R. 61 E. , M.D.M. The reservation further provides "the waters from Vegas Creek sh all at no time be diverted in such manner as to in terfere with the rights herein reserved, unless provision sh all otherwise be m ade....to convey to the tract of land so reserved the water aforesaid, fo r use as a fo resaid ." I wish to advise you that no water has been available for this land for the past three weeks, and that unless immediate action is taken by you to comply with the provisions above set forth, that I w ill be forced to take le g a l action in the matter. Very tru ly, /sgd/ MRS. MINA STEWART
