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Revised Draft of Agreement regarding the sale of Las Vegas water facilities and lands to the Las Vegas Valley Water District and deed for nine specific parcels of land to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, May 8, 1953
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Archival Collection
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Revised Draft of Agreement and deed between the railroad companies and the Las Vegas Valley Water District for the sale of Las Vegas water facilities and lands
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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 26, 1930
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Archival Collection
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Letter outlining the procedure for a one-time purchase of bulk drinking water on the St. Thomas line.
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Letter from A. M. Folger to William Reinhardt, November 30, 1949
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Archival Collection
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The City of Las Vegas was requesting to borrow six water meters to check their water use. The Las Vegas Land and Water co. did not have any, but Folger recommended purchasing them and then sending them on to Yermo when the city was done with them. Letter has three date stamps: "H.E.D. Dec 1 1949," "E.E.B. Dec 1 1949" and "U.P. R.R. CO. Law Department L.A. Dec 1 1949"
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Telegram from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to A. E. Stoddard (Omaha), October 16, 1952
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Archival Collection
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Nobody had brought up the issue of mineral rights during the negotiations for the water district purchase. To do so now would be a mistake. Even if oil was found on the property, the land's location would almost make it impossible to take advantage of.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), March 11, 1939
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Archival Collection
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Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad Company that serious maintenance needs to be made to a wooden pipeline which was leaking badly in numerous places with summer quickly approaching.
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Letter from William M. Jeffers (Omaha) to Walter R. Bracken, May 17, 1942
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Archival Collection
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Letter from Jeffers calling attention to serious accounting problems with the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and asking for these matters to be investigated and rectified
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Deed for a parcel of land, Las Vegas Land and Water Company to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, Audit No. 5354, June 1, 1954
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Archival Collection
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Deed of the land sold to the Las Vegas Valley Water District from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company. Notarized by Louis Scholnick in Douglas County, Nebraska on June 3, 1954.
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Letter from J. Ross Clark to C. O. Whittemore (Salt Lake City), December 27, 1902
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Archival Collection
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Clark questioned if the ranch had as much water or farmable land as claimed by Helen Stewart, and recommended not closing the deal on the property under the present agreement. J. Ross Clark's brother, who is mentioned in the letter, was Senator William Andrews Clark.
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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to C. M. Cory, April 21, 1954
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Archival Collection
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Letter references two bills, Senator McCarran's correspondence about the bills, and the bills with regard to bids for bonds.
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Chart of land proposed to be acquired by Las Vegas Valley Water District, August 18, 1952
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Archival Collection
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Indication of the values of land parcels to be purchased by the Las Vegas Valley Water District from Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.
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