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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), February 15, 1937

Date

1937-02-15

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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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), March 11, 1939

Date

1939-03-11

Archival Collection

Description

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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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 10, 1939

Date

1939-06-10

Archival Collection

Description

Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad to pay serious attention to maintaining a wooden pipeline, which was leaking badly in numerous places in summer. The reservoir level was at seven feet and falling.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. H. Larson and J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 11, 1939

Date

1939-06-11

Archival Collection

Description

Since the Union Pacific maintenance crew had not fixed the leaks in the pipeline, and the level in the reservoir was five feet and falling, Bracken had dispatched men to repair the pipeline.

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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), June 12, 1939

Date

1939-06-12

Archival Collection

Description

Telegram informing that the Las Vegas Land and Water Company crew repaired 108 holes in their main pipeline and gained a foot of water in the reservoir overnight.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), July 12, 1939

Date

1939-07-12

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken was asking the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to disallow payment to the person who should have repaired the leaking pipeline but didn't. The spraying pipeline severely hampered their credibility in the public eye when asking for conservation from citizens.

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Letter from W. H. Hulsizer (Omaha) to G. F. Ashby (Omaha), May 7, 1942

Date

1942-05-07

Archival Collection

Description

Hulsizer enumerated the many financial and political reasons that the water producing lands controlled by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company should be sold to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.

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Charts, Comparative statements per capita water consumption, Las Vegas, 1941-1942

Date

1941 to 1942

Archival Collection

Description

Two charts comparing the water consumption in Las Vegas. The handwritten chart documents a ten month period (January-October) in 1941 and 1942. The typewritten chart documents a four month period (January-April) in 1941 and 1942.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Guild comparing water consumption between July 1941 and 1942, August 3, 1942

Date

1942-08-03

Archival Collection

Description

Letter indicating that July 1942 was the highest water consumption month in Las Vegas history. Stapled to a comparative statement of per capita water usage.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Guild comparing water consumption for August 1941 and 1942, September 1, 1942

Date

1942-09-01

Archival Collection

Description

Letter comparing Las Vegas water usage in August in 1941 and 1942.

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