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131* 1 8fi extent that tfee water would be lost toil the near^-surface 2 senes, we obtained the cooperation of the City, th© County and 3 ttet Vtlif Company, ©11 three parties contributing son© money 4 whieh w© were able to got matched with the Government, ©nd that 5 resulted In « study being made in 193S. An engineer from the 6 v* s* Qoologieal Service, by the nano ©f Livingston, spent sene 7 three or four months in the Valley* and he was assisted at that 8 time by Mr. Jameson, whose services had been with the City, but 9 we obtained the loan of his sorvioes at that time. We realised, 10 of course, that we had m adequate water laws that would giva 11 any control over the ground water in the State, and in 1939, the 12 State enacted a rather comprehensive ground water law, and in 13 one section of that law, it prevldod that upon petition ©f the | 14 water users in any particular area, the State fngineer could 15 designate the area, and within such area would have full control 16 ©vor the drilling operations and the distribution of water* 17 In about 19*K> or 19**1, such a petition was received from 18 around fifty per cent, 1 think, of the legal water users, which 19 Included the Water Company, the City of Las Vegas, and many 20 others, and that resulted in designating this area under the 21 provisions of Section V of the Act, It also provided that we 22 could, with the consent of the County Commissioners, make an 23 assessment ©n all the real property within such district for the 24 purpose of paying for the services of a well supervisor, and I 25 believe that that was done about 19^2 or 19^3* A tax was put on K 26 all the real property within the area, which gave us sufficient