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    Los Angeles - February 9, 19^4 Mr. J . ;M0 Anderson: <CG - Mr, f t K Mack) We are fu rn ish in g data to Mr. Bracken f o r making h is annual re p o rt o f LVL&W Co. , and in s e ttin g up production versus consumption of w ater a t Las Vegas by months, our production fig u r e s are determined as fo llo w s : Throughout the month Mr. Edwards is in stru c te d to keep an exact record of the hours each w e ll and sprin g i s on production. He w e irs each f a c i l i t y on the 1 5 th o f each month, and takin g h is two measurements we com­pute the produc tion o f each w e ll and sp rin g fo r the month, u sin g, o f course, the time that each f a c i l i t y i s rep orted in s e rv ic e . Consumption is taken from meter measurements taken on the l a s t day o f each month. In review in g our monthly computations f o r production f o r the twelve months o f 1943, I note th at s e v e ra l months show consumption c on sid erably in excess o f production. These erroneous fig u r e s May o r ig in a te three ways: F i r s t : The record o f the hours the f a c i l i t y is H ^ a production each month may not be p ro p e rly kept; Second: We w eir once a month, whereas we know that the flo w from the se v e ra l f a c i l i t i e s v a rie s during the month, in some in stan ces a p p re c ia b ly ; and T h ird ; Our meters may at times not be accu rate. We o f course must fin d a way to c o rre c t th is discrepancy, and as a f i r s t step I w i l l ap p reciate i f Mr. Anderson w i l l spend a l i t t l e time w ith Mr. Edwards and make sure that he i s keeping an accurate record o f the time each f a c i l i t y i s on production. As a second step , arrange with Mr. Edwards to w eir each f a c i l i t y on the 1 5 th and l a s t day o f each month, and use extreme care in re p o rtin g h is w e ir measurements. As a th ird ste p , we should have a p e rio d ­i c a l check, a t le a s t every n inety days, o f our master meters. We know that at times In the p a st these master meters have become b a d ly out o f order and have given us erroneous fig u r e s . I know how b a d ly you are pressed fo r time, but w i l l appre e la t e i f you can g iv e th is m atter e a rly a tte n tio n and do everyth in g p o s s ib le to o o rre c t the s itu a tio n . Frank Strong