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LAS VEGAS MORNING TRIBUNE Conservation— Urged by Firm At Local Parley B y M A T T IE G IA SSO N The present water supply I in Las V egas is sufficient! for the needs of a com­m unity with a population of | 25,000 persons; the pressure | and flow of wells is gradually be- | ing reduced; conservation pro- '.j gram started in the past year has | resulted in the saving of from | two to three million gallons daily, | and a possibility exists that w e ' are facing a critical shortage of water. These were points brought out. | at a meeting yesterday of Union ; \ Pacific railroad representatives, 1 state, county and city officials, land interested water users in this (area. The gathering was called I by the Las Vegas chamber of com-smerce, and Maxwell Kelch, pres-iident, presided. Representatives of the railroad ” and water company were W. H. | Guild, executive assistant to th e1 I president; E. E. Bennett, general ^solicitor; Frank Strong, manager! I of industrial development; George j fFish, superintendent; Bob Den-! I ton, western manager; Walter! I Bracken, vice president of the j Las Vegas Land and Water com­pany; A1 Folger, general manager of the water company, and L eo: McNamee, Union Pacific attorney for Nevada. Alfred Merritt Smith, state en-jgineer, and his assistant, Hugh iShamburger, spoke for the state of Nevada. Kelch, reviewing the purposes j of the meeting, explained that an ? | adequate supply of water is abso- lutely fundamental for the de- jj ivelopment of the community. He| j callAd upon Frank Strong of the J J Union Pacific railroad to present 1 j that company’s stand with regard!. I to proposed development, if any, j [ of the existing water supply. 1 Strong replied that surveys | j strongly indicate a limited source 1 of underground water supply, and I j that if water were piped in from j Boulder reservoir it would b e ! (Please turn to page 4) ! (Continued froni rage 1) . I heavily mineralized and Of Inferior I quality for all-around use to the • present water supply* In. view of . ! the difficulty of arriving at an; i accurate aop?9i§ftl of artesian r.e- 1 sources and the time required in ; the study, he stated* uThe problem we die an and industrial water supply. For fort"should've made to b^ng about waste of wSa3te r »to pro te“ct Tthee fUt(T d it t ’fn V er e More about Las vseas water tomorrow.)