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Las Vegas Review Journal-February 22, 1950 Attorney General Says County Board Must Furnish Survey Money The Las Vegas valley water district today was assured of ample ftmds to complete preliminary plans for the project when Attorney General Alan Bible, in an official opinion, ruled that it was manda­tory, under the law, that the county commissioners supply the neces­sary funds to bring the project to fruition. The water district has asked the commissioners for $25,000, but approval of the request was held up by the board until Bible’s ruling came through. To­day George E. Franklin Jr., re­ported that the water board i would be given sufficient funds" I to complete the job “ but it 1 might be under the $25,000 re- | quested.” A commttee from within the 1 water board met with represent- |atives of the Colorado river | commission this week discuss- | Ing a contract which would as-jsure the district 8,000,000 gal­lons of water per day for use in the pipeline, and the commit­tee, consisting of William Coul-thard, E. O. Underhill and John Bunch, r e p o r t e d satisfac­tory progress. The entire board, on Friday, jm et with representatives of the Blair-Rollins and Coe f i r m , ! of Minneapolis, which sent the men from the branch office in San Francisco, and the water board members said glowing ap­proval of the project was given by the bond underwriting com­pany people. Harry E. Miller, chairman of the water board, said the bond underwriting firm representa­tives, like others who had pre­ceded them, gave optimistic re­ports on the probability of a sale of the bonds, and declared that the program was highly sound. | It was reported today by Mil­ler that an election of directors of the water district would be held on April 4 to replace Thom­as E. Campbell, Miller, Coul-thard and Underhill, whose terms expire this year. Regis­tration for the election will open on February 16 at the county clerk’s office.