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Report of Las Vegas fire protection recommendations from the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, July 1949

Date

1949-07

Archival Collection

Description

Fire protection recommendations for the city of Las Vegas including an April 13, 1949 fire flow test report provided by the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific for Las Vegas.

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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, W 23-1-48, August 4, 1949

Date

1949-08-04

Archival Collection

Description

The water company would see no benefit from attending a public hearing with the Public Service Commission regarding the water situation in Las Vegas

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Letter from J. G. Allard (Las Vegas) to Al Folger (Las Vegas), August 2, 1949

Date

1949-08-02

Archival Collection

Description

Request for the water company's plan to prevent water shortages in the future. Letter states that if the supplied plan is insufficient, the commission will schedule a public meeting.

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Las Vegas Land and Water Company report, July 23, 1949

Date

1949-07-23

Archival Collection

Description

Summary of latest water crisis with the recommendations of Commissioner Williams to correct it.

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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to Calvin M. Cory, March 17, 1947

Date

1947-03-17

Archival Collection

Description

The city asked the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. to either fence or place Las Vegas Creek in a culvert, and Bennett was asking if they were obliged to do so.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, October 11, 1945

Date

1945-10-11

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken asks if the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. should oppose a proposed well by Kenny Searles.

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Memo from A. M. Folger to Walter R. Bracken about drill wells, June 12, 1945

Date

1945-06-12

Archival Collection

Description

Account of a meeting called by the State Engineer to discuss applications to drill wells. The Las Vegas Land and Water Company and Robert Griffith both dropped their objections and both were allowed permits. Those in attendance discussed the issues going forward. Memo has date stamps from E.E.B., H.E.D. and U.P. R.R. Co. Law Department, Los Angeles.

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Letter from Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, May 2, 1945

Date

1945-05-02

Archival Collection

Description

Robert Griffith's lawyer informed the Las Vegas Land and Water Company's lawyer that unless they withdrew their protest of the Griffith well, they would protest the water company well.

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Letter from Alfred Merritt Smith (Carson City) to Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas), March 3, 1945

Date

1945-03-03

Archival Collection

Description

The State Engineer recommends offering Robert Griffith water at wholesale prices so he does not want to drill a well

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee, November 18, 1943

Date

1943-11-18

Archival Collection

Description

The water company needed to take steps to ensure that the one million gallons per day that issued from the new sewage treatment plant would continue to go to the Las Vegas Ranch. Handwritten at bottom "This is very important." Date stamps at top E.E.B., H.E.D., and U.P. R.R. Co. Law Department, Los Angeles.

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