Copyright & Fair-use Agreement
UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
Read more about our reproduction and use policy.
I agree.Information
Digital ID
Permalink
Details
More Info
Rights
Digital Provenance
Publisher
Transcription
Hr* Howard c Mann, Chief Knginecr 4/26/28 ago Two1 w# have an abundance o f water fo r the tim e-being, but the fa c ilit ie s fo r conducting th** and Town-s ite are inadequate* There tlmn can flow through the 16” Main* suamer la s t year when the pressure a iry water into the Softener in shop Yi m coming la from Qity patrons, we stl the S p illway at S e ttlin g Basin* I t i is during the svmmr too much draw-ofj ntain a su itable pressure. Since t§ ught in through Pipe Line a few a<s' uivalent o f surplus w atery or about sg more than the 16” Main w ill oarrj In carder to give I water s i f t a g e which might occur \___ t be bettor to spend a part o f the ?*?lyLQu.uQ an improved and la rg e r Conduit from en ^^3i^*sM n h \5^S h op Yards! In th is connection, could we jtq n salm ^\on e-si ^ . f of the 16?: ra in now in use and re la y / it p a ra lle lin g the other h a lf, and f i l l in the gap with /£4'? Ilain, ta la would then give us 24” Lin© about, h a lf the I distance from (settlin g Basin to shop Yards, and flow ing M to two 16" Lines and with a head and volume such as the J\and two M r Lines would carry, there would be l i t t le ouastioh^as te/sC shortage o f water or lack o f pressure Llse-eesiid be used exclusively fo r Railroad " * * the other turned d ire c tly into the City Main by a stand-pipe pressure from th« 24” Lin s, ve us storage water in the la rg e r pipe and I cient to carry us sa fe ly through i t has in the Boulder Canyon ham B i l l should be passed. _ ib ly double our population* and we can then construct a’ large R eservoir, and there w ill be a large amount o f the $71,000*00 appropriation le f t over to help start tills construction work* early consideration, a© your Engineers are at survey work nos on location o f Reservoir* this year i f the town continues to grow as w ill you kindly give th is matter your earnest and Yours very tru ly 5 *928 (P o s t s c r ip t on Kext Page)