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Las Vegas Morning Sun-August 31, 1951 See Settlement Of BMI Disposal At Crucial Meet Speculation that tomorrow’s ! crucial session between the i Colorado River Commission and General Services Admini­stration Chief Jess Carson will 1 produce a definite blueprint for disposal of the Basic Magne- ! siuih Plant by the state, was i made yesterday by plant man-i ager Julian Moore, on his re­turn from a series of confer­ences on the subject in Wash- 1 ' ington. Moore denied rumors circu- I lated in Las Vegas during the i talks, to the effect that the vital ’ water needs of Las Vegas had I’been shunted into the background ! by the conferees. He said the water subject was I thoroughly discussed by top of-j ficials of the GSA, plant lessees, ; Gov. Charles Russell, CRC Atty. ! Alan Bible, and himself. At only ione of the sessions did Larson personally sit in, Moore reported. “All were totally sympathetic ?with the plight of the Las Vegas area,” Moore said. “Plant lessees | were asked to justify their esti-i mates of water needs, and were /advised by the government men | to take every precaution to con­i'serve on water for industrial j use.” He said he could not hazard a guess on what proposal will be 1 offered to the Las Vegas Valley i Water District, but was confident (that the needs'will be recognized \ and a feasible plan submitted to j the district. It was speculated yesterday in . Carson City that GSA will re­quire the district to pay $1,500,- 000, instead of the $500,000 of­fered, for the 10,000,000 gallons > of water, daily .which is sought. : The chances of. obtaining the water through some means from the Henderson line are expected to be bolstered by the presence of Sen. Pat McCarran at the meet­ing. The senior senator has re- ! peatedly assured the citizens of Las Vegas and vicinity that he f will not let them down in the quest for vitallv-nehded water. Regarding sale of the plant, j (Moore speculated that the CRC will be offered a choice of advertising the plant to the j highest bidder, or doing business with a combine of the lessees to negotiate a sale. However, he said, the lessees still have not determined if they are interested in this sort of a deal, and further conferences j among them will be necessary. The bigwigs due to attend to- ; morrow’s session will begin to I arrive this evening. Governor Russell, Bible and whoever else they choose to bring, will arrive by Bonanza Air Lines. Later in the evening, Larson and John Mueller, his Nevada reoresenta-tive, will come in by air from Washington. At 1:30 a.m. tomorrow, Senator McCarran will arrive by train. It is not known how long he will, remain after the meeting, but Larson intends to leave Las Vegas almost at once. The conferees will be joined at the plant by directors of the val­ley water district, the board of county commissioners, the board of ‘city commissioners and rep­resentatives of lessees, and the meeting is scheduled to begin at ( 10 a.m. in the CRC chambers at f the plant. CARSON CITY, Aug. 30. (UP) “ Gov. Charles Russell said up­on his return to his office today that the meetings he attended in Washington “may have achieved a common basis for proceeding with plans for disposition of the Basic Magnesium plant at Hen­derson.” The governor met with Gen­eral Services Administrator Jess Larson during the past week in an effort to work out a means of disposing the state owned plant. “I think a great deal of pro-! gress was achieved,” Russell J said. But he explained the na-! ture of the discussions with Lar­son was such that he could notli make a full report on the talks! until Saturday when a meeting on the BMI plant will be held at Henderson. Scheduled to be present at the discussion will be Larson, Sen. Pat McCarran, Russell, the mem­bership of the Colorado River Commission, representatives of the BMI leasees and spokesmen for the Las Vegas Valley Water District. More information will be made; available then concerning the; possibility of providing Lake Mead water from the BMI pipe­line to the Las Vegas Valley