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*6 A» L« Worswick, an architect of 14 years standing in Las Vegas, stated he had been handling probably half of the building program for the local and outside banks previous to the federal Housing set-up’s advent in Las Vegas. He said this has amounted to probably 900 of the 2,000 units in Las Vegas designed to house families* These units are all in addition to the contracts entered into by builders with the Las Vegas Land & later Company already mentioned. Witness Worswiok further testified that in several months, when employment in Las Vegas is stabilized there will be at least 1,000 more housing units than are now needed. He reached this conclusion after allowing for construction work in this vicinity slowing up and the excess mechanics would be leaving. T. M* Carroll, a real-estate dealer and insurance man for 25 years in Las Vegas and who was not interested, financially, in any of the building projects entered into under Rule 9 (c), testified his business was selling and renting houses already constructed. He says M s calls are mostly for furnished houses and states that he has 25 to 30 vacant lots listed for sale, already accessible to city • ater. A. M. Folger, Superintendent of the Las Vegas Land & Water Company, took the stand and in his Exhibit Ho. 1 brought the facts in his letter of May 1, 1943, up-to-date and included 365 additional units embraced in two Army housing projects and the El Rancho Vegas project. He, (f o l g e r g a v e the number of houses constructed in each of the 12 contracts made by the water company and different builders and the number occupied and the number still vacant. The principal cause of the house shortage in Las Vegas in 1941 and 1942 was due to the large force employed by the MeHeil Construction Go, in the building of the Basic Magnesium, Inc. plant. In June, 1942, this force reached a peak slightly in excess of 10,000 workers and it has steadily declined to June 1, 1942, to a force of 2,000, and it is expected to further decrease to a negligible number when the McNeil Company finishes its present contracts about October 1 , 1943, v - 3 -