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B m JoKivs-Maivville S A L E S C O R P O R A T I O N INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS DIVISION Telephone: M ichigan 6011 June> 2O8O, 1i9n5to0 8x6 West Fifth Street Los Angeles 13, Calif. Mr. W. C. Perkins Chief Engineer, Union Pacific Railroad 1416 Dodge Street Omaha, Nebraska Dear Mr. Perkins: mi This will confirm the conversation which Mr. Hitcheook and I had with you yesterday with regard to the situation in which we find ourselves at Las Vegas, Nevada. As you know, your company operates the water system in that city through a subsidiary, the Las Vegas Land and Water Company. For some time, the Las Vegas Land and Water Company has purchased Transite Pipe for use on their water supply lines. On the distribution line, however, they use cast iron. It has happened on a number of occasions during the past several years, that subdividers or contractors installing distribution lines in that area have wished to purchase and use Transite Pipe in place of cast iron. When they have requested approval of such use from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, they have been informed that if Transite were used, the water company would not reimburse themfbr any part of the cost under their amortization plan. Since it is the practice of all municipalities and water companies to reimburse people installing pipe to be connected to their system under some type of amortization plan, this refusal has naturally prevented anyone from purchasing Transite in place of cast iron. More important to us, however, has been the embarrassment caused us by the fact that those requesting permission to use Transite were regular customers of ours elsewhere, and the inference drawn by them from the refusal of the Land and Water Company to accept Transite has been that Transite did not make a satisfactory installation and was, therefore, not acceptable. I have pointed out to Mr. William Reinhart that we are not asking him to purchase pipe for his distribution lines directly from us, but that we do feel that there is adequate proof that Transite is entirely satisfactory and that he, as a representative of the Union Pacific Railroad system, should not embarrass us with our customers. Mr. Reinhart stated that while that might be true, he did not wish to go into the matter further, but that if we were not satisfied, we should take the matter up with the Omaha Engineering Department. .