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Holiday Motel Winnemucca mounted sign, Winnemucca, Nevada
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Archival Collection
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View of the mounted sign for Holiday Motel Winnemucca during the day with unlit neon and at night while lit.
670 W Winnemucca Blvd, Winnemucca, NV 89445
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Letter from Franz A. Maroshek (Las Vegas) to J. M. Murphy (Las Vegas), February 18, 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The County Health Department called on the City Manager to enforce Ordinance 76 to prevent the use of effluent to irrigate land that was used to raise dairy cattle on the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Letter from J. M. Murphy (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), February 18, 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The Las Vegas City Manager informs Union Pacific Railroad that it would no longer be providing the one million gallons of effluent to the Las Vegas Ranch for use in irrigation.
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, February 21, 1948
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of drilling two wells on the Las Vegas Ranch to make up for the irrigation water lost by the City forbidding the use of effluent, and of giving up acreage for the Elks and a sewer treatment plant.
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Letter from G. J. Sylvain, M. D. (Las Vegas) to Mr. Folger (Las Vegas), March 28, 1949
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The County Department of Health was going to add oil to the effluent to kill mosquitos, and asked the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to report excess oil running onto their land.
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, November 17, 1950
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Lessees of the Las Vegas Ranch quit paying their rent when the water to the ranch quit flowing. Upon being reminded of the terms of the lease, they paid the rent, but asked for future water delivery plans.
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Letter from W. T. Stewart (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas Land and Water Company (Las Vegas), January 1, 1951
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Stewart notified the Las Vegas Land and Water Company that unless water was provided or the rent lowered, he would terminate the lease and vacate the property.
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Letter from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to A. E. Stoddard, January 31, 1951
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Willie T. Stewart was terminating the lease due to insufficient water on the ranch. He was willing to sign a new lease given the listed terms. Letter refers to outlined areas noted on map referenced below.
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