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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 .mm* feeing first duly sworn, testified as followst MRjgf _jX AKXHATI OH BY MR. CAimOKi Q* Will 7©u state yew nans, please. A. S« I. Cragin. C* What is your business or occupation? A. 1 am in the theatre and Insurance business in las Vegas. Q* And you are also the Mayer of the City of las Vegas? A. X an. Q. And you hare been during all of the years 19^-9 and 1950? A. X have. Q* X® order to save ties, I ash you to state, in your own words, the water situation with which you presently are familiar, going hash to the spring of 19^9. X think we can save tine if counsel has no objection. A* There has been a shortage coning on for the last four or five years, last year we ran into a shortage and It was necessary to put restrictions on the use of water. The eon- plaints last year weren’t as numerous as they have been this year. This year, we put on restrictions again, and the eon- plaints this year have been so many that it’s Just been a con­stant worry for the City Commission and all the members and all the City employees. There have been tines, at cur regular meet­ings here,when this room was so full that we couldn’t handle the people protesting the water shortage, and they were standing out there in the ante-room. Xt got so bad that we pulled off the