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Extra copy for Mr. Reinhardt Mo t . S I , 1051 files 4747-11-64 Honorable Robert A. Allan, Chairman Public Service Commission of Hevsda Oarsoa City, Nevada Case Ho. 1214 Sear h r, Ch&lnaant Referring to ray letter of Hoveraher 13, 1951 relative to application by the Las Vegas Land and *&ter Company to amend certain rules and reflations as more particularly set forth In the application Itself, 1 think It might be desirable to draw the CoramisBlon* e attention, an the basis for an ex parte ' order, to certain testimony offered in Case Ho. 12C7 before the Public Servioe Commission of Nevada, at a hearing on September 20th and 21st of 1950, for the purpose of bringing directly to the attention of m e Commission at this time the serious m t e r situation w m existed then ami the very prob­able increase in the seriousness of such water situation in the event something Is not done by the Inhabitants of the City of Imm Venae to curtail the abnormal waste atncnwl nee ®f ® i i f In mat city* and to reduce the Curing the year 1950* there was produced from m e water production facilities available to the las Vegas Land and Water Company, approjds&tely 3,559,000,000 gallon® of water, a minor portion of which was used by the Union Pacific Railroad Ctomp&ny* the balance of which m s consumed in the City of Las Vegas, t m will recall m a t during m e months of July, August site! September 1950, there was alleged to be a serious shortage of water and the shortage was the subject of the aforementioned hearing in September 1950. Ste1 the first ten months of 1931. there m s produced from the water production facilities available to the Las Vegas Land and Voter Company approximately 3,257,000,000 gallons of water and it is eetlsyited that there will be produced approx­imately 3*000,000,000 gallons of water for the year 1931.