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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 26, 1930
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter outlining the procedure for a one-time purchase of bulk drinking water on the St. Thomas line.
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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, April 3, 1929
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Consideration of adding a line for fire protection to protect new leases in a new industrial area and how users would be charged.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), March 11, 1939
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Archival Collection
Description
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.
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Letter from A. M. Folger to William Reinhardt, November 30, 1949
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Archival Collection
Description
The City of Las Vegas was requesting to borrow six water meters to check their water use. The Las Vegas Land and Water co. did not have any, but Folger recommended purchasing them and then sending them on to Yermo when the city was done with them. Letter has three date stamps: "H.E.D. Dec 1 1949," "E.E.B. Dec 1 1949" and "U.P. R.R. CO. Law Department L.A. Dec 1 1949"
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Letter from William M. Jeffers (Omaha) to Walter R. Bracken, May 17, 1942
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter from Jeffers calling attention to serious accounting problems with the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and asking for these matters to be investigated and rectified
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Telegram from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to A. E. Stoddard (Omaha), October 16, 1952
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Nobody had brought up the issue of mineral rights during the negotiations for the water district purchase. To do so now would be a mistake. Even if oil was found on the property, the land's location would almost make it impossible to take advantage of.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to H. C. Mann (Las Vegas) regarding Las Vegas water supply, June 9, 1938
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Las Vegas was just entering the hottest part of the year and well No. 1 had dropped off production considerably.
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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to C. M. Cory, April 21, 1954
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Letter references two bills, Senator McCarran's correspondence about the bills, and the bills with regard to bids for bonds.
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Chart of land proposed to be acquired by Las Vegas Valley Water District, August 18, 1952
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Indication of the values of land parcels to be purchased by the Las Vegas Valley Water District from Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company.
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Newspaper clipping, Vegas urged to resume water ration, Reno Evening Gazette, April 21, 1954
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Archival Collection
Description
The article includes the Las Vegas Valley Water District's proposal to drill two new wells to augment the water supply and the Union Pacific Railroad's request that the Las Vegas city commissioners reinstate water rationing. The piece of paper to which the newspaper clipping is attached has a dated stamp from the law department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
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