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with customers, and inoldwtidly to satisfy himself as to the conclusions reached, Mr. Bracken should personally accompany tho party. For duns* l$h2, we had if hotels, full schedule rats for which ie #3^7*If j and 21 auto courts, full schedule rats for vbieh is t*i49.75* » 800 allowance for auto courts would amount to #09*95 P®** month. 7 wish to males a change la my recommendation of dims 10th. I suggest vs dispense with ths suggested Auditor*s cheek sf those facilities, and that we oontlnus, as startsd in April, to ohargs the hotels full schedule rats, hut that with respect to auto courts we adjust chargee from April cm to oontiaue the tip vacancy allowance. Sr. Bracken is of ths opinion that if this is dene ths auto court owners will at least defer petition to the Coiaaietion for adjustment sf rates. As far as hotels ere consented, we have the defense that we are charging the schedule rate approved by the Commission, and t do not antioi- pate serious protest. t has# this recommendstlon intern the opinion that sst examination of the books of auto court owners to determine cor­rect Individual vacancy allowance will Boat certainly arouse antagonism and in all probability lead to a petition to the Commission for a downward rate adjustment, in whleh event, if request Is granted, we might reasonably expect to lose more then the excess, if any, in the 20% allowance. Messrs. Bennett end Bracken concur. With respect to the last paragraph of your letter, and to the comment in the last paragraph of Mr. Jeffers1 letter of May 2 5, 19^2 , to hr. Bracken, concerning the Increase in popula­tion in relation to Water Company revenues1 1 have investigated the situation on the ground, have discussed and analysed available records with Messrs. Bracken, Bennett, Kehler and Mann, and have compiled result of this study in a sheet of statistical data which chews, annually since 1950* the relation of total gross revenues and gross commercial rev­enues to the population and number of customers. Concerning this statement, 1 make the following comment! 1. Our population estimates for the various yeare are bated upon 0. S, census for the yeare 195© and 19kG, each of which was taken early In the year, and we have made allewanee for increase during tho year to obtain an average. Tho Boulder Dam boom peak in 195#~55 we obtained from Mr. lahler's investigations as to population during