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COVER JL8TTER SUBJECT. D rill 830 ft* water well and construct pipe line from well to reservoir and booster plant at Las Vegas, N e v a d a * The City of las Vegas is d irectly served with water by the Las Vegas Land and \!<ater Co*, a public u t ilit y operating under the Jurisdiction of the Nevada Public Service Commission in the City o f Las Vegas, Nevada* The Union P a cific Railroad Co* owns or controls ce r­tain water bearing lands, upon which are located several springs and ten water wells* A small portion of the water produced from these f a c il i t i e s is used by the Railroad Go* fo r it s own pur­poses? by fa r the greater portion , however, is piped from the source to Main S treet, where it is sold under meter measurement to the Las Vegas Land and Water Co* This is the only source of supply the la te r Co, has* Las Vegas is a desert c it y , in which the temperature ranges from a low of about 30° P* in the winter to a sustained high temperature throughout the summer months, reaching around . 116 F«, August usually being the h ottest month* In August, 1939, when the population" of Las Vegas might be considered normal, the demand upon the lbter Co* fo r a ll purposes averaged 4,650,000 gallons per day. The Railroad at that time had a production capacity of approximately 6,000,000 GPB, With the advent of the war and in sta llation o f Defense plants and the Army A ir Training School d irectly tributary to the C ity, housing f a c ilit ie s were found to be entirely inadequate and the construc­tion o f several hundred homes was authorized and accomplished, requiring extension and enlargement of mains and development of additional water supply* This situation reached a peak in August, 1944, during which months our average daily consumption was 10,875,000 gallons and our poten tial daily production had been b u ilt up to 13,000,000 gallons* During the hot weather of last year, i t was found that supply lines to some of the new d iv ision s, including a subdivi­sion of 289 homes constructed by the U* 3» Government fo r housing o f fam ilies o f non-commissioned o ffic e r s at the Air Training School, were inadequate, and by order of the Nevada Public Ser­v ice Commission we are arranging to enlarge the same, which w ill create substantial additional draft upon the Railroad Company’ s water supply* In addition to th is , the Commission ordered the Railroad Co* to take over service to two subdivisions within the city lim its which had theretofore been served by a private isater Co* having it s own w ells, but without acquisition by the ^ater Co* of such wells* This w ill create a further demand upon the Railroad Go* ¥s water resources*