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all necessary purposes, under the franchise now held by it and THAT IT WILL NOT WASTE, OR PERMIT TO BE WASTED, ANY WATER DELIVERED to it under this contract*'* This contract remained in force until a new agreement was entered into in March of 1929. In June of 1922 the late U.S. Senator, J. G, Scrugham, then a member of this Commission, while investigating the possible industrial and agricultural development in the Las Vegas district, wrote to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company *'as a result of our investigations, we are com- pelled to state that the present installed water system, altho furnishing cheap and apparently satisfactory service for the Clark Townsite of Las Vegas, is entirely inadequate to handle the needs of the outlying additions which are being built up in the normal growth of the town, or of the new industrial developments which are contemplated". "A RESTRICTED WATER SUPPLY WILL INEVITABLY THROTTLE THE CIVIC GROWTH OF LAS VEGAS." "We suggest that your company at once consider the desirability of immediately expanding your water system to a degree sufficient to care for the full development of business which can reasonably be expected during the next decade." In 192U to augment the natural flow of the spring supply a 12 inch well was drilled in Las Vegas Valley artesian basin to a depth of 635 ft. and developed a maximum flow of 8.12 second feet. The Railroad Company appropriated 2,5 second feet of this by diver­sion thru 2h inch wood stave pipe into 2,500,000 gallon concrete reser­voir from whence it was and is drawn for railroad and domestic use through one 16 inch wood stave pipe and one 2k inch cast iron pipe from which main pipe lines 6", 8", and 10" cast iron mains distribute water for DOMESTIC AND RAILROAD USE Bn AND FOR DOMESTIC USE BY EMPLOYEES LIVING AND WORKING IN AND ABOUT RAILROAD GROUNDS