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reserving the remainder for private purposes or for private sale or disposition as he sees fit. Accordingly, our decisions have recognized and have repeatedly declared the right of a water company to make such limited dedication and to decline to furnish its water to persons not within the area it has undertaken to serve. (Leavitt v. Lassen Irr. Co*, 157 Cal. 92 (29 L.E*A* (N.S.) 213, 106 Pac. 404); Thayer v. California Dev. Co., 164 Cal, 128, (128 Pac. 21); Price v. Riverside Land etc. Co., 56 Cal. 433; Hildreth v. Montecito Creek Water Co., 139 Cal. 29, (72 Pac. 395)); 2 Wiel on Water-rights, 3d ed., sec. 1281; Lewis on Eminent Domain, 3d ed,, secs. 254, 3130 The facts stated in the commission’s findings and opinion do not show that the Del % r Company ever offered its water for use to the territory in which applicant Glass lived, or to any persons other than those buying lots from the land company or residing within the ’old town* surrounded by the territory subdivided by the land company. Its dedication of its water, if it has made any, extended no further than that. There has been no dedication of the water to the use of any portion of the public outside of that area. ’’For these reasons I am of the opinion that even if It should be coneeded that the company is administering a public use, it does not appear that it is administering a use to which Glass is a beneficiary or that Glass comes within the class of persons to which its water has been dedicated. This being so, the commission has no power to compel an additional dedication or to compel an extension of the service beyond that to which it is already dedicated, and its order directing the extension and additional service was in excess of its authority and void.” From the foregoing, it is my opinion that the Public Service Commission of Nevada is without authority to order the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to extend its service beyond the city limits of Las Vegas. Assuming that the Company voluntarily extends its mains to points beyond the city limits for fire protection purposes only. could the Company be compelled to broaden such service to other uses? This question, in my opinion, is answered by referece to texts and decided cases hereinabove discussed. Once the Company voluntarily undertakes to serve a new territory it can no