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LAS VEGAS EVENING REVIEW JOURNAL December 13, 1944 Woter Study Being Continued jin Vegas Sector ^Exhaustive studies of the precipitation and water supply of I the Las Vegas valley is progress- ling favorably, it was reported to-] 'day, and it was announced by officials from the state engineer’s office that a hydrological survey1 | is under way at the present time. Ashton Codd, hydrologic en- . gineer for the United States; I weather bureau, and a crew of men arrived here yesterday- i and today were mapping plans for the survey which they in-« ! fend to make during the neil> few days. : The study will be made in jgg effort to secure a "correlation b&r jtween the seasonal precipitation- (and the artesian tyell supply in j the valley, and to this mid five [new stations are being set up ir* | the Charleston range. At these 1 stations seasonal storage preeipi-r' [tation guages will be set up for; [future study. ; The guages are being established at Cold Creek, Lees Sum-' mit, the Roberts’ ranch on the south end of the mountain range;] at limit Creek on the Pahrump 'side and at the head of Kyle canyon, near the peak. The study is being made through a four-way cooperation; among the United States geologi-’ cal survey, the state engineer’s office, the U* S. weather bureau and theforestry service.