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Photograph of pickers at work harvesting celery plants on the Iki Ranch near Logandale, Nevada, June 4, 1947
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Archival Collection
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Men harvesting celery on the Iki ranch near Logandale, Nevada.
Transcribed Notes: Bureau of Reclamation typed notes appended to back of photo: Boulder Canyon Project, Nevada Region 3 "Pickers" at work harvesting celery plants on the IKI Ranch near Logandale, Nevada. Raising celery plants is a relatively new type of irrigated specialty farming in southern Nevada. Water from the Muddy River is used to irrigate the fields. Twenty million celery plants were harvested from the 60 acres planted this season. The plants were shipped to the neighboring western states.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leonard L. Arnett (Las Vegas), June 20, 1935
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Archival Collection
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Letter to the Mayor of Las Vegas reporting of output from the Las Vegas Springs and wells and consumption by Las Vegas residents.
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Data on wells and springs from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, 1950
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Archival Collection
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List of wells and springs, amount of water filed for, and the purpose the water is used for
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Letter from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to L. R. Maag (Las Vegas), June 12, 1953
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Archival Collection
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Approval of the recommendation that the police department assign two officers to enforce water restrictions at the expense of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for the summer months as has been done in previous years
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Letter from Howard W. Cannon (Las Vegas) to Nevada Public Service Commission (Carson City), August 10, 1950
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Archival Collection
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The Las Vegas City Commission instructed the city attorney to demand that the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. proceed immediately to augment the present water supply.
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Public service announcement by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company about avoiding water waste, KRAM Radio, 1950
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of a radio public service announcement reminding people to turn off their sprinklers at midnight and leave them off until 5 am or risk a citation from the police.
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Letter from D. F. Wengert (Los Angeles) to W. C. Perkins, April 5, 1950
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Archival Collection
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Letter indicating that the State Engineer may soon require the metering of the wells and springs in Las Vegas.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles), Frank Strong (Los Angeles), and Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas), March 7, 1945
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Archival Collection
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Coded telegram regarding the proposed water metering law before the Nevada State Legislature.
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Memo from Walter R. Bracken to E. E. Bennett about Lake Mead and Basic Magnesium, Inc., November 18, 1944
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Archival Collection
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Bracken recommending that if Las Vegas was successful in getting water from Lake Mead through Basic Magnesium Incorporated that the artesian water be used for domestic purposes exclusively and the other for irrigation.
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Chart of Las Vegas water consumption in 1940, circa 1941
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Archival Collection
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1940 Las Vegas water consumption by month.
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