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ftfe - Ip ’ FEB 18 1942 LOS ANGELES, CALIF, Las Vegas - February 17, 1942 W 23-1 O F F I C E O F EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Mr. W. H. Guild, Assistant to the President, Los Angeles, California. Dear Sir: Your letter February 16th, regarding water conservation in Las Vegas. No representative of the Water Company requested the stock yards people to permit water to run. The stock yards are not served by the Water Company, but by the Railroad Company. However, I interviewed Mr. Edwards, the water service man for the Railroad Company and he advises he did request the stock yards attendants, two or three years ago, to crack the valve at the end of the line, in order to permit circulation during extremely cold nights. The service lines serving the stock pens run along the top of the fence and, in years past, have been damaged by freezing, resulting in considerable expense for repairs and loss of water. The stock yards attend­ants understood, of course, that this protective measure was to be used only during extremely cold nights to pre­vent freezing. As I understand it the waste of water from this emergency measure is negligible, compared with the waste resulting from permitting open hydrants to run in the stock pens after stock shipments have been moved out, I am advised that Mr. Edwards today completed the installation of 22 new valves in the stock yards, so there is no excuse for one drop of water being wasted. Yours very truly, Vice President