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Las Vegas - July 22, 1953 Mr. W. H. Johnson - Los Angeles Mr. Ch&sson, owner of the Southern Nevada Disposal Service Inc#, whose address is 173^ South Main Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, phoned me today advising that he was contemplating the purchase of a parcel of land with 300 foot frontage on "A11 Street at Monroe Avenue and extending to Railroad Company right of way approximately ^50 feet easterly. Mr. Chasson then requested advice as to whether the Railroad Company would construct a spur to serve the property mentioned above and if so what would be the estimated cost to him for such a spur. I told Mr. Chasson a Railroad spur to serve the property mentioned would in all probability be extremely expensive in as much as it would be a main line turn out and would Involve changes in the centralized traffic control circuits and that I would not attempt to even give him an approximate estimate of the cost he would be required to bear in connection with the construction of such a spur track. Mr. Chasson was very Insistent that I correspond with someone and endeavor to secure an approximate estimate of cost to him for construction of spur track to serve the property mentioned. I told Mr. Chasson it would be useless to make such a request for such an estimate as I knew that no one connected with the Railroad would furnish such a figure as the only way to secure such a figure would be to make an engineering survey and work out a detailed estimate of cost for such a track which I felt sure would be in excess of anything he would be willing to pay# LRM/tp L. R. Maag