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Notice of special registration for bond election, Clark County, Nevada, 1953

Date

1953

Archival Collection

Description

Notice of the requirement of special registration by property and corporation land owners in Clark County to vote in the 1953 bond issue for the Water District. A list of registrars and registration places included on second page. The bond issue announcement and an itemized list of proposed expenditures to be paid from the bonds are referenced below.

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Bond issue election announcement by Las Vegas Valley Water District to eligible voters within district (Las Vegas), 1953

Date

1953-08
1953-09

Archival Collection

Description

Notice of special election for bond issue for the Water District including the reasons for the issue. Document includes information election date, amount of bond issue, voter eligibility, registration, purposes of bond issue, revenue, expenses, estimated water rates, financing, water consumption, and Lake Mead supply.

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Proposed improvements and costs of Las Vegas Valley Water District listed by James M. Montgomery (Pasadena, California), August 19, 1953

Date

1953-08-19

Archival Collection

Description

Detailed list by a consulting engineer itemizing costs of proposed improvements by the Las Vegas Valley Water District after the change in ownership of the Las Vegas water facilities.

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Letter from W. W. White (Reno) to Senator Pat A. McCarran (Washington, D.C.), September 22, 1943

Date

1943-09-22

Archival Collection

Description

Letter written by the Director of Nevada's Division of Public Health Engineering to Senator McCarran informing of sewerage problems in Reno and the Nevada statutes regulating metering of water in larger Nevada towns like Las Vegas and Reno.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. P. Massie (Las Vegas), June 10, 1942

Date

1942-06-10

Archival Collection

Description

Letter to the manager of the Army housing project informing him of complaints about water waste and the city ordinance forbidding water waste.

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Comparative statement of water sales: First eleven months of 1935 and 1936

Date

1936-12-10

Archival Collection

Description

Month by month comparison of 1935 and 1936 water usage in Las Vegas.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to R. L. Adamson, August 5, 1936

Date

1936-08-05

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken had been trying for months to get the roof over a reservoir at the springs repaired, and now a dead rabbit had been found in the pool.

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Letter from Mina Stewart (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas Land and Water Company, July 2, 1936

Date

1936-07-02

Archival Collection

Description

Mrs. Stewart reminding the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. of their responsibility to provide water for the Stewart burial plot and telling them if the company did not fix the delivery problem, legal proceedings would be initiated.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), July 1, 1936

Date

1936-07-01

Archival Collection

Description

Letter on the water situation in Las Vegas during a water shortage and status of water supply to the Stewart burial plot and the Las Vegas Ranch.

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Report on Las Vegas water situation from C. E. Swann (Rock Springs, Wyoming) to George B. Pryde, May 29, 1936

Date

1936-05-29

Archival Collection

Description

Report on water supply and use in Las Vegas. C. E. Swann, one of the authors of the report was Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Coal Company. The addressee, Mr. George B. Pryde was Vice President of the Union Pacific Coal Company. The coal company was located in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Document includes water consumption data.

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