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March 22, 1954: cooles to : a ll directors, Montgomery, Bepnett. M CN A M E E & M CN A M E E A tto r n e y s a t L aw EL PORTAL BUILDING L A S V E G A S , N E T A D A Telephone 1888 March 19, 1954 Las Vegas Valley Water District 900 'South Fifth Street Las Vegas, Nevada TIME BY.. Attentioni M r, Thomas A. Campbell, President Dear Sir; Re; Existing Water and vater Rights. Pursuant to the agreement dated Jane 1, 1953, between Los Angeles h Salt Lake Railroad Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company and Lae Vegas Land and Water Company, {" F irs t P arties”) and Las Vegas Valley Water District {"D istrict”), the District is purchasing certain land belonging to F irst Parties and all of the water and rights to any water rising upon or flowing from any of the springs or wells located upon said land. Upon this land are located what has for years been called the Las Vegas Springs, from which the Town (now City) of Las Vegas derived its municipal supply of water. Originally the water from these springs was used to irrigate what was known as the Stewart Ranch. This ranch, and the land you are purchasing f rom F ir s t Parties and all of the water* and water rights pertaining thereto were purchased by F irs t Parties from the Stewarts prior to 1905, and as there was no comprehensive water law in the State of Nevada until the year 1905, the right to waters appropriated and used beneficially prior to said year are vested rights. The F irs t P arties' rights to the waters from Las Vsgas Springs ha vs never been questioned, and it is my opinion that said rights are unassailable. (The Stewarts reserved a continuous flow of four miners inches for the purpose of irrigating what is known as the "Stewart Burial P lo t," a four a cre tra c t, and this supply is now furnished by pipe lines.) About 1943 the first parties realised that steps would have to be taken to increase the supply of water in order to keep up with the increase in population in said area, and F irst Parties decided to drill for water upon their lands located in the vicinity of said spring*. Well No. 1, a li inch well* was drilled to a depth of six or seven hundred feet, and resulted In