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Letter from Alfred J. Ryan to the Directors of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, circa 1950
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the feasibility of bringing water from Lake Mead to Las Vegas. Pittman is an older name for the city of Henderson. Whitney is an older name for East Las Vegas.
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Memo about supplying water to the Las Vegas Gunnery School, June 19, 1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the alternatives of supplying water to the Las Vegas Gunnery School (now a part of Nellis Air Force Base).
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Newspaper clipping, Vegas Valley Water District progressing, Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 17,1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Newspaper clipping discussing petitions to create a water district in the Las Vegas valley and a map of the proposed district.
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, November 6, 1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Report of the discussion regarding the creation of the Las Vegas Valley Water District at a Rotary meeting.
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Newspaper clipping, Campaign started to complete signatures for Water District, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 19, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Story about a campaign to collect enough signatures to call an election for a vote on the creation of a water district for the Las Vegas valley.
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Newspaper clipping, Las Vegas Valley water withdrawal keeps even, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July, 21 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Residents of the Las Vegas Valley were withdrawing water at the same rate as was being recharged.
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Newspaper clipping, Water district for Las Vegas Valley moves step ahead, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 8, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Having received enough petition signatures, water district backers were moving on to the next step: a public meeting to discuss the issue.
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Newspaper clipping, County approves petition for Water District, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 30, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Article describing how the Clark County Commission approved the petition to create a water district and set up plans for an election on the issue.
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Petition by property owners to create the Las Vegas Valley Water District addressed to the Board of Commissioners, Clark County, Nevada, after 1947
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Archival Collection
Description
Text of the petition circulated to real property owners within Clark County to create the Las Vegas Valley Water District. Also included is a map of the area to be supplied with water, which is marked with the proposed boundaries of seven divisions.
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Letter from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to G. F. Ashby, September 8, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
The water company had been requested to extend a pipeline to a new subdivision outside of the Las Vegas city limits for fire protection, but Reinhardt recommended not setting a dangerous precedent.
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