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Las Vegas Review-Journal - March 22, 1950 ? V V £ , « 4 / P » J . m ’ to o lanager lo Be Choice of a general-manager for the Las Vegas valley water district, is expected to be made within the next week or 10 days, clearing the way for early ac­tion on the various problems fac­ing the board of directors, in bringing water in from L a k e Mead. A conference has been sched­uled for Saturday night, with Kenneth Hill, senior engineer for the firm of Greeley and Hanson Chicago, consultants, who car­ried on the preliminary studies for the district, and at that time applications for the executive ! post will be canvassed. As soon as this choice is made; the board plans to proceed at once with negotiations along four major lines, completion of which are regarded as vital to the ultimate success of the pro­ject. These are: 1. -Purchase of the Las Vegas Land and Water company’s wells and facilities. Officials of the company have indicated a readiness and willingness to en­ter into discussions looking to­ward ultimate taking over off their Las Vegas operation by the water district and no difficulty is anticipated in this regard. 2. -Purchase of the pipe-line and pumping facilities now car­rying water from Lake Mead to Basic plant. The board expects to negotiate with the Nevada Colorado river commission for this unit, with the understand­ing that the plant will have first sail on whatever water is nec­essary for its operation. 3. -Completion-of an agreement with the air force for supplying the 4,000,000 gallons per day ul­timately needed there. 4. -Contract with the resort ho­tels in the “ strip” , area for their water supply now obtained from wells. Members of the board of direc­tors are confident they will be jable to carry through the de-t& fe..pf. .the program and ac- ’r a i l