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N \ Maintenance water system Las Vegas. n Los Angeles, C al., October 17,1906. Mr. J.Ross Clark, Second Vice President, B u i l d i n g . Bear S ir: This acknowledges receipt of your le tte r v/ritten on lin e , October 14th and enclosing copy of le tte r from Mr.Bancroft dated October 2nd, relative to maintenance of Las Vegas water system. Las Vegas Land & Water Company was organized I had a talk with Chief Engineer Hood, of the Southern P a cific, who at that time dictated a memorandum for me setting forth the manner in which this would have been handled were it a Southern Pacific matter, and which was in effect about as follow s: pany for it s total expenditure for lands, water, etc.; the Land & Water Company would pay the entire cost of constructing the pipe line from the springs and the cost of distributing pipe line in the town, exclusive of the cost of tank and the local pipe lin e used purely for railroad purposes; that the Railroad Company would receive a ll the water it might require for s t r ic t ly railroad purposes forever and free of charge, and that its right-of-way and it s station grounds would have cost nothing. As I stated to you verbally some time la s t month, when the The Land and Water Company would reimburse the Railroad Com­