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(COPY) Sale of Water - Las Vegas Land and Water Company - Yermo. Mr. F.H. Knickerbocker: Referring to your letter of February 2*7 th, your file 9436-3-W: water at Yermo by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company has been under consideration for some time, and this department has always felt that there was a great possibility of the Water Company’s being declared a public utility company. The subject was given some considerable attention in corre­spondence passingbetween us with respect to the removal of the pipe line running to the Tom Williams property, your file 9436-W-20. You of course realize that if the Water Company should be declared a public utility at Yermo it would be subjected to all the rules and regulations of the Railroad Commission with respect to public utilities, would have to file its schedules of rates and, what is more important, be subjected to every petty complaint of every dissatisfied user in Yermo. In view of the situation in that city I feel that there would be a continuous flow of complaints to the Railroad Commission for those things which we did which we should not have done and for those things which we left undone which they feel we should have done* tween the Water Company and the Inhabitants of Yermo with respect to the sale of water, but may I not suggest that consideration be given to amending all of those contracts, possibly not at the same time but in the near future, to cover the additional charge and the installation of the meters. It is quite possible that Mr.Bracken can persuade many of the inhabitants to voluntarily acquiesce in this in crease. After all of those contracts have been changed we can then go to the few recalcitrant inhabitants and tell them that it will be necessary to raise their charges in view of the fact that the other users have agreed to the increase and that we have put it into effect in so far as those users are concerned. March 4, 1930. You will recall tba t the question of the sale of I realize that there are numerous contracts be-