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(CO P Y) m Omaha - March 23, 1950 3703.1 Mr. Wm. Reinhardt - Los Angeles (2)j (cc - Mr. A. E. Stoddard - Copy of Mr. Reinhardt’s letter of March 3, 1950 is attached. Mr. E. E. Bennett - Los Angeles Mr. R. M. Sutton) Reference is made to your letter of March 3, 1950 regarding additional information to be considered in connection with an application for increase in water rates at Las Vegas. To compile the voluminous detail sought by your questionnaire will require a good many man days and considerable expense. Before undertaking this work, I hope that you will agree with me that all features should be fully discussed with Messrs. Wehe and Bertolacci with the object of eliminating all unnecessary data and reducing the expenses of compilation to a minimum. In any event, however, it is my considered opinion that there is no necessity whatever in connection with an application for increase in water rates to go into most of the matters about which detailed information is repeatedly being requested by your office. However, seemingly there are irreconcilable differences of opinion between us and apparently there is no way to resolve these differences without having a personal conference with Mr. Wehe, and if he desires, with his assistant, Mr. Bertolacci. I wish you would therefore arrange to have them come to Omaha where all the records are available for such a conference at the earliest possible date. Before this application is made and this case entered into, it is essential that we here be fully informed as to the approach to be made and in detail as to the actual testimony and exhibits to be introduced. Most of the data embraced by the questionnaire does not lend itself to proper decision or disposition through correspondence. My comments with respect to the features that can be partly disposed of through correspondence are set forth hereunder: Item A-I-l - READJUSTMENT FOR BETTERMENTS: As stated in the second and third paragraphs of my letter of November 10, 1949, this information cannot be fully developed from available records, and I have had this statement confirmed by the accounting department. In lieu thereof I have supplied you with statements showing the estimated original cost to date of the physical property as it existed