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Newspaper clipping, Water level decline shown, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 15, 1945
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Archival Collection
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Newspaper article summarizing a 1945 U.S. Geological Survey report of a sharp water level decline in the Las Vegas artesian basin.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles), Frank Strong (Los Angeles), and Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas), March 7, 1945
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Archival Collection
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Coded telegram regarding the proposed water metering law before the Nevada State Legislature.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, February 26, 1945
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of a meeting with the chamber of commerce regarding water metering in Las Vegas. The water company asserted that their desire for water meters was solely in the interest of water conservation and not increasing revenues.
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Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to Leo A. McNamee, Including a telegram from R. E. Marks, February 21, 1945
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Archival Collection
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The Clark County delegation had yet to introduce the bill to permit the metering of water in Las Vegas. Bennett called on McNamee and Bracken to get Las Vegas residents to pressure the delegation to do so. Includes a telegram from R. E. Marks.
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Memo from Walter R. Bracken to E. E. Bennett about Lake Mead and Basic Magnesium, Inc., November 18, 1944
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Archival Collection
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Bracken recommending that if Las Vegas was successful in getting water from Lake Mead through Basic Magnesium Incorporated that the artesian water be used for domestic purposes exclusively and the other for irrigation.
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Newspaper clipping, Water wrangle solution?, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 17, 1944
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Archival Collection
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Lorenzi recommending a pipeline from Lake Mead to supply water to Las Vegas to guarantee future development in the Las Vegas Valley.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 13, 1944
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Archival Collection
Description
The Chamber of Commerce agreed that the artesian water in the valley should be reserved for domestic purposes, and Lake Mead water for irrigation, but Bracken wrote that this was academic because Basic Magnesium Inc. had no excess water.
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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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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to G. F. Ashby, November 7, 1944
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Archival Collection
Description
Meeting on water in Las Vegas. Discussion included the decline in water pressure throughout the valley, watershed recharge, BMI Water, a possible water district, well drilling, and more.
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Chart of water production and consumption from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, 1926-1944
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Archival Collection
Description
Chart showing the available production, average daily consumption, and the maximum daily consumption of water from 1926 to 1944
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