Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 136661 - 136670 of 137262

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), regarding water from well and springs, August 8, 1934.

Date

1934-08-08

Archival Collection

Description

Walter Bracken asking for permission to fill in the swimming pool and use the company drag line to clean out the ditch to the Las Vegas Ranch so overflow could be used by the lesee rather than go to waste.

Text

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to R. L. Adamson (Los Angeles), March 11, 1935

Date

1935-03-11

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken calling on the Assistant Chief Engineer to do something about the leaking

Text

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. R. McNamee (Los Angeles), August 14, 1913

Date

1913-08-14

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken wrote to the company lawyer to find a permanent solution to a yearly problem of gate vandalism at the Stewart burial plot.

Text

Telegram from Edward C. Renwick (Los Angeles) to G. A. Cunningham (Salt Lake City), April 30, 1959

Date

1959-04-30

Archival Collection

Description

The Water District advised that they did not have the facilities to supply enough water to Las Vegas and would not object to the Union Pacific Railroad providing water from its shop well.

Text

Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of Goldfield Belmont Extension Mining Company, August 12, 1912

Date

1912-08-12

Archival Collection

Description

Minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of Goldfield Belmont Extension Mining Company, August 12, 1912

Text

Slide of the construction of the Hoover Dam, February 13, 1932

Date

1932-02-13

Description

Black and white image of Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, at a ceremony which inaugurated construction on the Boulder City branch of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, signaling the beginning of the Boulder Canyon Project, later known as Hoover Dam. From left to right, the men pictured include: Senator Key Pittman of Nevada; Governor Fred Balzar of Nevada; Carl Gray, President of Union Pacific Railroad system; Secretary Wilbur holding the Nevada silver spike; and Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada. Note: Boulder Dam was officially renamed Hoover Dam in 1947.

Image