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Water Supply at La© Vegan* Lma Vegas, June 29th, 1938* f 23-3-3 Mr. 1. M. Jeffers, President, LVL&WCo., Omaha, ? Hebraako, Dear Sirt Referring to your letter, written On Line, June 3Snd, regarding list of cooling devices that hare been installed at Las Vegast I enclose herewith the list, in dtr-licato, showing type, location by block and lot numbers, capacity and year Installed, for Clark*® Lae Vegas Townsite and all subdivisions which m supply with water. Please note under the column titled “Gala. Used par 24-hours* we have shown the also of the eater inlet leading into the cooling machine, as we are not permitted to use meters in Las Vega®, and the consumption in each instance would necessarily h»ve to be estimated. The notation following the alee of the inlet, that 1st “Recap* indicates the cooling • device is equipped with a recapture pump, which ' catches the water at the bottom of the saturated pads and recirculates it ov "r and over again* Measure­ment of the ©mount of water used by a cooling device equipped with one of these recapture pumps, such ?.» we have here at the Company room3ng-hou@e, shows that it usee 1 to 2 gallons par 48-hour period, accordlog to the humidity or dryness of the day, all of this water being evaporated and none allowed to, run to waste. TJndar “type* we have different la ted. between manufactured and home-made, because the manufactured type usee only'a fraction of the water used by the home-made.