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i Las Vegas, Nevada, Dec. 30, 1910. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter under date of December 28th, file No. 1199, making inquiry concerning location for twenty additional hoiises for employes at Las Vegas. Concerning the same, I would say, if the conditions existing are the same as per your letter under date of July 14, 1909, to C. 0, Whittemore, President, a carbon copy of which you sent me, the construction of the other twenty houses should be in the east half of Block 24 and Block 25i for, as per your letter to Mr. Whittemore, "concentration of this work reduces the cost." On the other hand, I would refer you to my letter on this subject to Mr. H. I. Bettis, under date of July 8th, 1909, which was in reference to construction of houses before we built the present forty, a copy of which you will find herewith enclosed. I have found the demand almost equal both f'or four-room and live-room houses. The only complaints that I have had concerning these houses, are those spoken to you about in reference to the location of the kitchen range, which must be directly in front of the doors in the kitchen which lead to the front room and to one of the bed rooms. This, I believe, Mr. Tilton advised could easily be remedied by shorten-
