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Photograph of a Union Pacific tour-bus on Highway 93, Nevada, circa 1933
Date
Archival Collection
Description
A Union Pacific tour-bus in a pullout overlooking Hemenway Wash off Highway 93.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 9-20-33
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Photograph of Russell well, May 15, 1922
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Russell artesian well
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten on front: Russell Well[s], May 15, 1922; Handwritten on back: Taken by Julian Anderson
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Telegram from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to George F. Ashby (Omaha) and William Reinhardt (Los Angeles), October 20, 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Telegram to railroad officials informing them of the creation of the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), February 15, 1937
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Bracken informing Knickerbocker that if repairs are not done soon on their pipeline, it would fail catastrophically. If the water master was busy, he requested the authority to hire a local crew to do the repairs.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. H. Larson (Los Angeles), May 22, 1940
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the necessity of keeping down weeds around the reservoirs and settling ponds at Las Vegas Springs to avoid fires.
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Photograph of Hoover Dam worker beside the Colorado River, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Hoover Dam worker and an Ingersoll Rand electric generator beside the Colorado River looking Northwest towards the Hemenway Wash.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31
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Photograph of steamshovel working on the road to the Hoover Dam construction site, circa 1931
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Steamshovel working on the road to the Hoover Dam construction site looking east over the Colorado River.
Transcribed Notes: Written on back: 4-18-31
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. J. Balch (Los Angeles), October 20, 1913
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Bracken notifying the Union Pacific Railroad that the water situation on the Stewart burial plot was satisfactory.
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Letter from G. F. Ashby (Omaha) to William Reinhardt, September 12, 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Ashby agreed with Reinhardt that extending water lines beyond the city limits, even for fire protection, set a dangerous precedent
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Letter from E. E. Cunningham (Yermo, Cal.) to J. P. Mack, November 27, 1930
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of selling water to people living next to the Arden Pipeline, provided they were not using the water to manufacture moonshine.
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