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Salt Lake City, October 13, 1906* Hon. Henry T h u rtell. State Engineer, Carson C ity, Hevada. Dear S i r ,- We are just in receipt o f information of the application made by Peter Buol of Las Vegas for permission to appropriate part o f the waters o f the Las Vegas Creek, and in this connection beg to advise that the waters in th is creek arise on lands owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company and are used en tirely on these lands and lands conveyed by the railroad company to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, and these waters have been used on these lands continuously for more than th irty years last past. At no place do these waters flow outside o f the lands owned by the railroad company and the towns it a company and the entire flow o f water is used continuously and during every part of the year in the irrig a tio n and cultivation o f these lands. There is abso­lu te ly no question about th eir not being subject to appropriation under the law which it is attempted to invoke in this case as these waters are not public waters o f the State o f Hevada. We are as­tonished at the e ffo rts made to appropriate part of these waters and characterize the entire proceedings as being l i t t l e leas than dishonest. These people, in my opinion, might as w ell go into the depot or station grounds o f the railroad company and attempt to appropriate any of it s property found there, because our ownership