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or invest further capital in the development* I don’t think we will have {and they have shown us every cooperation), any difficulty in working out a deal with them* fhat would be the next step for our members to arrange a basis on which to work and determine the actual price we will have to pay for the las Vegas Land & Water Company* Xt is almost essential, for the success of the District* to have the Plant and facilities of the Las Vegas Land & Water Company* in order to sell the bonds or obtain a Government loan* The Government will not put out any money on a project which does not have a source of revenue coming in* As yet* what we will need is pros­pective* so it will be a difficult matter to finance under those conditions unless we have the Land & Water Company facilities with their earning capacity* One plan would be to put in an entirely new plant* and bring water fro® the Lake direct to Las Vegas* costing ten or fifteen million dollars, which is way out of line as to what wo have and can pay* The practical thing* and what will probably be done* is to acquire the Henderson reservoir, which has the same elevation as 5th and Fremont Streets, which means that water can be brought in along the 2000 foot contour with no pump* That would also save the cost of the pipe from the Lake to Henderson* The only question we have there is how much water we can get from the home level formation* They handle at the present time six to eight million gallons per day at Henderson* The cap­acity of the pumping plant is twenty to twenty-four million gallons a day* including six pumps* If the rest of the Baxlo Plant is filled* it is not quite certain what water will be used, but we feel a surplus of eight to ten million gallons a day at Henderson would be available for us. From that amount* we must supply the Air Force one and a half to four million gallons daily for the next four years* The present water supply in the summer is at its maximum* The only way it can be augmented is by cutting down the waste* The people who have cheeked for the later Company and the Federal Engineers feel that 25$ of the water used Is wasted* There are two ways of stopping this waste* Personally X am not in favor of the meter* You can put on perhaps one, two, or three officers during the shortage periods* have them check waste* coolers* large business firms with refrigeration units* and people running water on lawns all day on hot summer days* 1 am sure that through this program of education of the people would result in finding that watering the lawns continuously during the hot summer days is doing them more harm than good* The City has been- c5o n-sidering buying the Water