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Y Lae Vegas - October 18, 193^ ¥ 2 3 - 6 Public Service Commission Carson City, Nevada Gentlemen: Referring to our letter of September 27, 193^, regarding I & S Docket 64, covering our application to amend and supplement our schedule of rates on water for cooling refrigeration machines, requesting same be held in abeyance for further amendment: As stated in our letter of August 10, the purpose of this requested increase in the rate on water for cooling refrigeration machines was to curtail the enormous waste where the water could be recaptured and reused through cooling towers; there was no intention at any time to add to the revenue of the Water Company by increasing water rates. However, we fully appreciated our responsibility to furnish adequate water service to the city, and did not feel that a majority of the citizens who own homes, lawns, trees and shrubs should be restricted for the benefit of a few who owned refrigeration machines. Under normal conditions we have an ample supply of water for all uses, and do not anticipate a recurrence of the drought conditions which existed generally over the entire country during the past summer, at which time our water supply was 26$ under normal. In addition to the expected return to normal water supply conditions it is expected, as you probably know, that by spring or early summer the population of Las Vegas will recede until it is eventually reduced as much as 25 or 35 percent of the present population, and accordingly will reduce the demand for volume of water. This will be the natural result due to employment on the Boulder Dam decreasing as various phases of the project progress or are completed. In view of the above, instead of holding the application submitted August 10th in abeyance, we request that it be with drawn and that the “Amendment and Supplement to Schedule of Rates and Charges" thereto filed, (I & S Docket 64) be disregarded. Yours truly, LAS VEGAS LAND AND WATER COMPANY Vice President