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Los Angeles, A p ril 17, 1923V Mr. A. Maguire: I quote below le tte r from Division Engineer in connee- 4 * A A A e 4 » 4 a m a O T H T P n with water situation at PFE «pa 1l antys TL aa as TVV ega«s. .:. "The PFE people at LasAfegas have been proposing the putting in of a cooling tower to handle th eir condenser water. / This s\immer, with anr new water softener, i t is going to be necessary th at/all water used by our locomotives and power house w ill have/to flow about fiv e -fe e t above thd top o f our engine t&ik, and i f these people continue to use a large quantity of water fo r cooling it w ill be necessary that we pump a l l of our locomotive and powerhouse water from the main up into the softener with a great expense to us. For the past two or three summers we have had to pump the bulk of our locomotive water and I see no reason why the PFE people to save themselves the expense of a douple of thousand d ollars of putting in a cooling tower should subject the Railroad Company to this expense, also subject the City of Las Vegas to a restricted pressure. I firm ly believe that i f they would put in this cooling tower that p ra c tic a lly a l l the water complaints from the City of Las Vegas would c6B.se. This matter was taken up with the PFE people sometime ago and I understand that their engineers a month or two ago were out looking over the ground toward the construction o f the tower, to date nothing has been done however, and the tooling tower should be in operation within the next 30 days." the PFE people are actually putting in this cooling tower? Have you had anything on this matter as to whether co-Mr.N. A. Williams