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I ' “ A n 'evasive ‘OH, sure’ does | ~4jc i satisfy them. T hey look at | our artesian w ells and shake their heads. Then the look at • the horizon. ‘Isn’t there w ater Up there som ew here that w e i ean bring dow n in sufficient : quantity to pay?’ they ask. ; “ One man said to me: Look, i no community can thrive or grow : : without a strong backbone of ag­riculture. You. have none.- The day I see your valley greening, I’ll know that I ean safely in­vest millions here. Here is a solution. Let -us build "a 60-iiich pipeline down from Lake Mead toid point where the waters can be turned info two or more flumes apd distrib­uted tp parts of the valley to be zoned. *•'' ... “Fifty thousand acres of tilla­ble land can" thus be supplied; | each- 10 acres will p r o d u c e enough food- for one family per I year, or enough to support a ' population of 10,000 families. • “. . . Water taken from Lake ' Mead where it has been stored 1 under the action o f the air and the algae is more suitable for agricultural purposes than ar- I tesian water; vastly more so than 1 k g s idne I a chlorinated water. .. . . ?-! aB «. . . As fo r our drinking w ater, let us cap and regulate the flo w o f our pure artesian water and ration.-it fo meet the domestic needs of a population which some | day .may reach the 100,000 mark. “Then, when the investor comes to town with check book open and pen poised, and asks ‘you have water enough for my project?’ we can truthfully anr ; swer, fyou but’.!” • W a te fy o te ^ Q uestions A n sw ered (Editor’s note: Believing there are many questions about I the proposed water < district £ which the public will want B answered in order to vote in­telligently at the election, Octo-her 19, the Review-Journal is, ?running a 'question and answer I quiz giving answers to some i questions already apparent. A n y voter is jn vited to send m his question and. a n answer w ill be provided.). Question — Does approval of, : the water district: by the voters| mean there will be a shortage I of water for operation on BM i' 1 Answer — Absolutely not. The , needs? of the plant are given first| priority and, even though the plant should operate at full ca- ! parity, the heeds- will not re­quire the full capacity , of the pipe now in service. . Question —. Will the water, i district supply the watpr .^eeds of LascVegas for some time to C° Answer -V PositiveiyC The I present lip e,:a lon g with the f domestic supply, .now available, |< will supply : wafer for the c o m ­munity until the - population;, l grows to several times its present < S1ZQnestion — Can the system be expanded, if- necessary, to take , Pare of an increase m population? Answer -^Certainly. The only i limit to the expansion of the sys- I • tetn is the Nevada allocation ot -water from f-ake Mead, which : runs into the billions of gallons, and the ability *o£ the water district to pay for such expansion. Question How will the m- * stallation of the distribution sys­tem be paid for? Answer :— By revenue bonds... The water district directors, when : elected, will meet at somfe time , in the future, vote the necessary-amount of bonds and will sell them to bond brokers. Such bonds .will be especially at­tractive to prospective buyers because they will be paid oil ; from the revenue derived by the* (district from the sale to cus-- | tomers. In other words, tl^e bonds , : w ill be self liquidating and will ?, not be paid off by tax, money.