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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to Leo A. McNamee, Including a telegram from R. E. Marks, February 21, 1945

Date

1945-02-21

Archival Collection

Description

The Clark County delegation had yet to introduce the bill to permit the metering of water in Las Vegas. Bennett called on McNamee and Bracken to get Las Vegas residents to pressure the delegation to do so. Includes a telegram from R. E. Marks.

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Memo from Walter R. Bracken to E. E. Bennett about Lake Mead and Basic Magnesium, Inc., November 18, 1944

Date

1944-11-18

Archival Collection

Description

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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Newspaper clipping, Water wrangle solution?, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 17, 1944

Date

1944-11-17

Archival Collection

Description

Lorenzi recommending a pipeline from Lake Mead to supply water to Las Vegas to guarantee future development in the Las Vegas Valley.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 13, 1944

Date

1944-11-13

Archival Collection

Description

The Chamber of Commerce agreed that the artesian water in the valley should be reserved for domestic purposes, and Lake Mead water for irrigation, but Bracken wrote that this was academic because Basic Magnesium Inc. had no excess water.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 10, 1944

Date

1944-11-10

Archival Collection

Description

Letter to the president of the Union Pacific appraising him of why the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was protesting the issuance of new permits to drill wells in the Las Vegas.

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