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X booster pumps, reservoir#, wtOm treatment plant, etc., in­stalled at a ©oat la mmm of $6,000,900.00* At the mooting last night, the engineers advised the Wiilltf that the Baste voter system had been subjected to considerable mm and tear, besides being installed in a teny as a war emergency measure, and that they <the eomlttee) &oul& therefor® ©xpeot to he saddled with the entire east of a line from the hake* this statement was made In response to a rumor that the national Government might he persuaded to «to» the system to Clark County without 00ft# ffm Basic Magnesium water Xiao operating seats, in* eluding Cost of Water fwrehased let left*), Supply and Vransmlsslon, storage and Treatment, was |38*@0 per million gallons. Based on a a»xl«*ii» dsneiid of 14,000,000 gallons per day (which we ap- PWNdhwd last Summer) t$» east would he $22,950.00 pm month* Oar sale* now run 113,000*00 per month. The ml operating mat shore quoted does not include depreciation, reserf* for replaas- meat, taxes nor interest on investment, and contemplates delivery only half-way to has Vegas* The oapaeity of their water treatment plant Is 30 million gallons per day, and 0 million gallons per day of this amount must be delivered to the present Basle Magnesium Project and the town of Henderson adjoining. »>ankly, I do not ee® what oottld he accompli shed by the proposed plan, except that it might make a supply of water available for irrigation la the Las Vegas Valley (at the expense —3 — —3—