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Living quarters - Las Vegas Los Angeles, March 19th, 1920 File 413-A- W Mr. W. H. Comstock General Manager, Los Angeles, Cal. Dear .Sir : returning your file, concerning living quarters at Las Vegas. ^ Referring to your memo of March 17th, and I appreciate the fact that the cost of building and furniture is high at the present time, but it is not higher in proportion thah the wages we are paying, and while it is hard for us to estimate losses due to changing men we do know that they are enormous, and that we have to sustain these losses in several ways which we cannot put directly into an estimate in dollars. When you get the minutes of the meeting just held by the Mechanical Department you will find that we have had 487 men leave at Las Vegas during the past 3 months and that the present force consists of 437 men, or considerably more than a complete turnover "in 90 days. It will also be shown that our shops are unbalanced at the present time., which is very expensive as we have a surplus of some kinds of men and a lack of v others. This matter has been held in abeyance all during the period of Government control, with the expectation that*we would get relief at this time, and it seems to me that the matter should receive serious consideration.- factory. What we want is the original proposition of small apartments at comparatively cheap rent so that we can place our men in them and retain them. This should be considered as an investment. My understanding is that about 13 double houses have been idle for a year, which, had they been furnished and remodeled as suggested, would have brought in a rental of, say, $15. a house or $30. for the double house, or a total of $450. per month for the 15 double houses. I believe this rental alone should remodel a house "and furnish it, and if so it would pay for itself annually ; and as i understand there is a substantial sura in the Treasury I cannot' see why this is not as good an investment as could be found. In fact, I would like to buy a little stock in it myself. The substitute I am afraid will not be satis- Map