Las Vegas was experiencing low water pressure because the fruit company was using full head through a direct 8 in. water main. Their cooling tower was installed, but not in service. Bracken wondered if there was a way to compel them to either use the tower or dig a well.

Knickerbocker asks Bracken how much water the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. could use from the new artesian well to make sure they are qualified to appropriate all the water from it.

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.