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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. C. Mann (Las Vegas) regarding Las Vegas water supply, June 9, 1938
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Archival Collection
Description
Las Vegas was just entering the hottest part of the year and well No. 1 had dropped off production considerably.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Roscoe Moss (Los Angeles), June 10, 1938
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Archival Collection
Description
Well No. 2 had dropped production from 2.5 million gallons a day to 700,000 gallons, and Bracken discussed possible remedies.
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Letter from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to W. H. Comstock, A. S. Halstead, W. R. Bracken, and J. Ross Clark, August 13, 1919
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter stating that low water pressure had been a serious problem during the last three fires in Las Vegas and should be fixed. If irrigation was the culprit, then the city commission should enact watering restrictions.
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Letter from A. S. Halsted (Los Angeles) to Mr. Knickerbocker regarding surface and underground water rights, June 11, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
Halstead believed that if a new well was dug, the railroad and the water company must make sure that all the water from it was appropriated.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to L. L. Arnett (Las Vegas), June 15, 1935
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter from Bracken asking the Las Vegas mayor if the city could assign a policeman at the water company's expense to enforce water restrictions as they were entering the hottest part of the year.
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Newspaper clipping, Install meters to check water wastage, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 22, 1949
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Archival Collection
Description
The City of Las Vegas is installing water meters throughout the city to check usage. The meters are only for statistical usage and will be removed when the tests are done. Newpaper clipping is attached to plain paper with "Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 22, 1949" typewritten on it and "80-" written in red pencil. Paper has 3 date stamps "E.E.B. Nov 25 1949," "H.E.D. Nov 25 1949" and "U.P. R.R. CO. Law Department L.A. Nov 25 1949." Additionally, "Mr. E. E. Bennett Los Angeles" is handwritten and a date stamp "E.E.B. Nov 25 1949" are sideways on an attached paper label.
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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to Calvin M. Cory, March 17, 1947
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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 Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, May 2, 1945
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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
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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 Charles A. Poulson (Los Angeles) to Arthur Maguire (Los Angeles), September 10, 1917
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Discussion about the repair of the pipeline and how the conditions that it operated under were responsible for its failure.
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