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Las Vegas, Nevada, Evening Review-Journal, November 26, 1941. CONTRACTOR HOST INSTALL WATER AT McNEIL HOUSING PROJECT, IS RULING The contractor at the new project of the McNeil Housing, corporation which embraces an ultimate construction of 500 low- cost .houses ion 140 acres of land iin Las Vegas, will be required to install the, water' system, according to thereport of A. M. Smith, ! state, engineer, and C. B. Sexton, | Chairman of the public service commission, who are in Las, Vegas on business, i* The public service commission .officials, Smith and Sexton, have been conferring with the McNeil jHousing corporation and the Las |Vegas Land and Water company with regard to service to the proposed development.' The housing company had requested -that the water company 'lay they lateral pipelines. Smith and Sexton pointed out that a short time ago the commis- sion held a hearing in Las Vegas regarding a similar proposal by another local development com- ? pany,' at the end of which both sides agreed to submit' briefs to bo studied by the Nevada attorney general. In the meantime, the public service commission will not attempt to modify the water company’s “rule 9” which requires the company to extend its mains at its own expense only 100 feet toward a new development, after which the contractors or owners are required to install and pay for their own network of lateral mains, the Nevada service commission officials state. , Under this rule, the water company buys the new system over a 10-year period by means of a 50 per cent reduction qf the water tolls to the investor. This system is more liberal than that in most other western cities, Smith states, as'some companies refund only 25 per cent for five years and others require the property owner under certain con- : dftions to pay all the cost of later- ’ als and refund nothing'. The proposed 500 houses, is a private^ enterprise to be construct- j ed in the southeast section of Las Vegas. It is planned that the Mc- i Neil company will proceed with blocks of from 20 to 50 houses, which will be sold prior to beginning of a new group. The housing company reports a great demand for such structures. This project has no connection with the con-' tract of the McNeil Construction company to build a new town east of Las Vegas for Basic Magnesium, Inc-., Smith reports. ’—i- — n .-—L,.'.. - ' ?' EMB