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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Roscoe Moss (Los Angeles), June 10, 1938
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Archival Collection
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Well No. 2 had dropped production from 2.5 million gallons a day to 700,000 gallons, and Bracken discussed possible remedies.
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Letter from the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce to W. H. Comstock, A. S. Halstead, W. R. Bracken, and J. Ross Clark, August 13, 1919
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter stating that low water pressure had been a serious problem during the last three fires in Las Vegas and should be fixed. If irrigation was the culprit, then the city commission should enact watering restrictions.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 10, 1944
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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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Aerial photograph showing construction of the Union Plaza Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, February 10, 1971
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Archival Collection
Description
Construction of the Union Plaza Hotel and Casino looking southeast.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Construction of the Union Plaza Hotel & Casino: The Union Pacific Railroad and Las Vegas Freeway lie in background. Feb. 10, 1971."
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Photographs and descriptions of an artesian well in the northwest corner of Clark County (Nevada), May 10, 1924
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Archival Collection
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Photographs with captions of an artesian well in Las Vegas
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Application for permit to appropriate the public waters of the State of Nevada, November 1939
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Archival Collection
Description
Application for the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to appropriate the water from a new well on the Las Vegas Ranch. Original Collection: Union Pacific Railroad Collection 97-19
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Memo from Edward C. Renwick to E. E. Bennett about the Las Vegas Land and Water Company being required to augment its water supply, 1952
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the relevant legal issues and court decisions relating to the question of whether the railroad could be forced to increase water production
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Report, Flood control and soil conservation in southern Nevada
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Archival Collection
Description
Brief history of flooding along the Virgin River and a list of work undertaken to prevent or diminish future flooding.
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County agent project, 1940 additions, Erosion - flood control, 1937-1940
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Archival Collection
Description
Revised summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Report originally signed in May 1937. Handwritten notes throughout document. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics-University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Project Number: State Office #172, Clark Co. #12
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), June 21, 1921
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Archival Collection
Description
Bracken appraising Clark of a complaint by the City Commission to the Nevada Public Service Commission and its resolution.
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