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Sheet 3 of 6. V Item 6b, - Cont *<!. Estimated value of water rights Working Capital and material and supplies Increase due to using average investment for year 19^9 in place of investment as of December 31, 19^8 Total - $30,000 5,000 11.617 &&61Z Item 6c. - Rental base decreased $7^667 due to reducing Investment cost by the estimated depreciation thereon. This follows the suggestion contained in Mr. Charske’s letter of April 1^, 1950 to Mr. Stoddard wherein he listed as one of the items that might be questioned by the Public Service Commission* the item of on gross investment of the Railroad in water facili­ties in “rent for pipe lines". Mr. Tracy prepared a statement show­ing operating results as reported to The Public Service Commission of Nevada for the years 19^-7, 19^3 and 19*f9 adjusted for the several items listed in Mr. Charske's letter, one of which was to compute interest on net investment. I believe this statement was prepared as a matter of information only and It was not the Intent to make our presentation to the Commission on this basis. I do not believe any reduction in rental base should be made on account of depreciation accruals. The Investment has not been reduced by such accruals and the owner should be entitled to receive interest on his investment. It is our general practice in the case of industrial lea,ses where Union Pacific is the landlord and Improvements are.Involved to Include an item In the rental for depreciation and I know of no instance where the rental base Is re­duced because of such payments. In theory at least and as brought out in the Brown Shoe Co. case - depreciation is accrued so that the landlord will be In a position to replace his property, when and as its service life expires. Page 30. Tabulation should be corrected with respect to costs and values for Water Company property to conform with re­vised statement forwarded Mr. Reinhardt with my letter of July 18, 1950. Page 31. Tabulation at bottom of page will require correction for reason noted above. Page 3o. Rate Ease: The tabulation will require revision for reason stated above for page 30, Also on account of error in computing Reserve Reoulrement Table "I" for C.I.P. shown as $3,886 should be $38,861. The second paragraph refers to "customer" advances. This should be described as advances made by sub-dividers, which In my opinion is entirely differentiated from "custo­mers" and should not be deducted from the rate base, as