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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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Photograph of Hemenway Wash and Colorado River from Highway 93, Clark County, circa 1929

Date

1929 (year approximate)

Description

Looking east through Hemenway Wash towards the Colorado River from the newly constructed Highway 93.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back: Looking thru Hemenway wash to river from new hi-way to day site

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Photograph of two woman near springs in Las Vegas, circa 1912

Date

1912 (year approximate)

Description

Two unidentified women standing next to the big Las Vegas Spring.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back: At Big Springs in Vegas - 1912?

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Photograph of bridge over Vegas Creek, Las Vegas, circa 1900

Date

1900 (year approximate)

Description

Photograph of bridge over Las Vegas Creek south of the Old Mormon Fort.

Transcribed Notes: Printed on front: Vegas Creek and the old Bridge, Las Vegas Nevada, Oasis Confectionery Photo; Handwritten inscription on back: s. of Old Ranch - cross to school - 2nd & Lewis

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Postcard showing burros on the Stewart Ranch, before 1903

Date

open start to 1903

Description

A herd of wild burros drinking from the Las Vegas Creek on the Stewart Ranch

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from front of postcard: "Burros: Stewart Ranch, Las Vegas, Nev." Transcribed from back of postcard: "W.P. Alter, Le Roy, Illinois."

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Postcard showing Eglington Well, circa 1915

Date

1915 (year approximate)

Description

Well dug by Peter Buol on the Eglington Ranch.

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of postcard: "Eglington Well - NE 1/4 NE 1/4 - S 24-20 (J)-60(R), [?], 232 fr deep flows 800 galls per minute. Peter Buol. 5[4] miles N West Las Vegas, Nevada."

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Photograph of artesian well, Eglington Ranch, Nevada, 1912

Date

1912

Description

A young boy standing next to an artesian well on Eglington Ranch.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten inscription on back: well at Eglington ranch in Las Vegas, c 1912, one of Dara's boys

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