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Letter from A. S. Halsted (Los Angeles) to Mr. Knickerbocker, June 11, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
The Las Vegas Land and Water Co. had drilled a new well but they had not filed the paperwork to legally appropriate the water.
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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 12, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
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.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Comstock (Los Angeles), June 17, 1922
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Archival Collection
Description
LVL&WC executives had been called to a meeting with the Utilities Commission about water shortages, and W. H. Comstock was seeing if they could quickly increase capacity before the meeting.
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Telegram from A. Maguire (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 19, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
The new well of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was throwing sand. The author believed the problem would correct itself in a few days, but if not, they Company might need to construct a settling pond.
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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to F. E. Pettit, Jr., August 16, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of what measures should be taken to control the flow from the new artesian well near the Las Vegas Springs.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Fred Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), October 14, 1924
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The temporary expedients they used to bring the new well into production, like the makeshift settling pond, needed to be permanently settled before the state and county health authorities got involved. The office of Mr. Osborne and Engineer McKee is mentioned.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), regarding cultivation of land from water of new well and springs to protect our water filings, November 15, 1924
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of ways to put more land under cultivation to protect their water filings.
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