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Lad Vegas - October 15, 1951 l % 25-3-3 (ry HP. E. C, Benwiofej jdJUU jUu w~>~b~L - \/ VcJ LL co - s#r. tillia* totoh&rdt HP* 1* E. Referring te.owr conversation October § concern­ing purchase of land to oofmeeti:#n with oar water operations at Las ’/eg&a the subject of your letter of October 4 to Ms Bennetts' 1 hare renewed Mr, Bracken1 e files on this subject and find the following information concerning the various land purchasesi Mr. Br&oken on October 29, 1939 fHtoosssended to Mr. Jeffers ’’Confirming my telegram October 2@th to Hr# strong, copy to Mr, Ashby, the most Important parcel we should acquire is the 40 acres shown m ifiiSft s«o 30 shown on mp 6 attached to file and owned by i, Cutting. this is immediately adjacent to the location where we propose to drill the new well narked Bo. 4 and is unquestion­ably to the proven water ledge. The acquisition of this acreage was also reoowaendsd by ms Kelson Taylor to his report August 4, 1937, and we have been carrying on indirect negotiations with the owner but thus far have been unable to acquire it at a prise of $20 per acre,* *ffee other 18C: acres.owned by 1* M. Pike and others, is probably also in the water ledge but is considerably lower than our present sources of supply, and even though water were developed in that location it would probably to necessary to lift it with, a pump in order to get it into toe settling basin. This land could probably to pur­chased for the same price we paid* for toe Htosan acreage, that is #30 per acre, and will to of value to the future as protection to our water-bearing land, suggested by Mr. Reinhardt and Mr. Greene.*