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Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Evening Review Journal October 25, 1944 CARSON CITY, Oct. 25 (£>)— Purchase by this state of the $5,100,000 BMI pipeline, pumping equipment and reservoir is un­der consideration here today by the Nevada Colorado river com­mission. October 25, 1944 TEMPERATURES Humidity .........................15% 1944 maximum ..i........____ ....87 1943 maximum „...___ ...__... 85 1944 minimum .................. 56 1943 m inim um ....42 FORECAST Clear tonight and Thursday. Slightly cooler tonight, MARKETS Dow-Jones averages: Indus­trial 146.37, off 0.21; rail 41.49, off 0.13; utility 25,65, up 0.03 and 65 stocks 52.85, off 0.08. Recommendations will not be made until after the Las Vegas chamber meeting November 3, when the city may consider a similar action, Alfred Merritt Smi t h , commission, secretary, said. “Acquisition of the BMI water supply would be an added in­ducement for the location of new electro-chemical industries in the Las Vegas area as there would be no question about adequacy of future water supply,” the state engineer said. Nevada w ill be given full con­sideration in the allotment of power from the proposed dams at' Marble' Gorge and Bridge Canyon, Arizona, E. A. Moritz, .director of power, wrote com­mission in response request pow­er be reserved for Nevada from prospective projects. W ar Ch<