Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

upr000062 286

Image

File
Download upr000062-286.tif (image/tiff; 27.18 MB)

Information

Digital ID

upr000062-286
    Details

    Rights

    This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.

    Digital Provenance

    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Hanford Visalia Barstew Reno Bakersfield $2.76 2.60 3.09 2.35 2.75 Las Vegas - present rate Proposed rate 2.00 2.55 Average Dollar Billing and Purchasing Value of Dollar: the chart which follows shows rather clearly: 1. That the average dollar revenue received per customer has remained practically constant during the past ten yeans; with $26.22 received In 1949 and $26.47 estimated for 1950 at present rates. 2. That the purchasing value of the dollar (commodity prlces-U.S. Department of Labor Indexes} has declined very materially - in comparison with the year 1940 and on that comparison the 1949 index is but 0.53 and the 1950 isfex 0.54* Thus a dollar in 1950 will only purchase 54$ of what it did in 1940, or it takes about #1.35 today to buy what a dollar did in 1940. 3* That the customer income has generally risen approxi­mately *70 $ since 1940, with, of course, natural variations between different classes of wage earners and between indi­viduals. Such increase in dollar income has to a consider­able degree offset the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar. An increase in water rates would, therefore, be the average during this period has been | compared