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3-OS ANOilES & SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY Las Vegas,. Nevada- D r ill 830 ft* water w ell, etc. 12© J u stifica tion fo r Sxpanaiona B* Other F a cilitie s $ Union P a cific Railroad Co* owns and operates springs and w ells on its property at Las Vegas, Nevada, and produces water fo r Railroad use and fo r sale to the Las Vegas Land and wfiater Co*, a public u t ilit y , operating under the ju risd ictio n of the Public Service Commission o f the State of Nevada in the supplying and distribution of water to the City of Las Vegas* Las Vegas is a desert c it y , having approximate winter tempera­ture of 30 with approximate maximum summer temperature of 116°, Owing to the extreme and frequently sustained heat during sum­mer months (August usually being the hottest month), water de­mand fo r that period is extremely heavy«> Page 7 of* 7 In August 1939, when the population of las Vegas was considered normal, the demand upon the Water Company fo r a ll purposes averaged 4,650,000 gallons per day# With the advent of the war and in sta llation of Defense plants and the Army Air Training School d irectly tributary to the C ity, housing f a c i l i ­tie s were found to be en tirely inadequate and the construction of several hundred homes was authorized and accomplished, re ­quiring extension and enlargement of mains and development of additional water supply* later supply lines to the new housing f a c ilit ie s are inadequate and by order o f the Nevada Public Service Commission Te are arranging to enlarge the same* The additional f a c ilit ie s are made necessary solely because of the abnormal eonditions due to the War and would not have been necessary in normal times