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Telegram from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 18, 1939
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Archival Collection
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Copy of a telegram to Omaha explaining the water shortage on the Las Vegas Ranch and requesting authority to drill a well.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), September 27, 1939
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Archival Collection
Description
Letter stating status of the work and cost of well drilling on the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, August 17, 1948
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Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of details regarding the drilling of a well on the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Letter from J. T. McWilliams (Good Springs, Nevada) to J. Ross Clark (Los Angeles), January 25, 1903
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Archival Collection
Description
McWilliams' handwritten letter of his water measurements on the Las Vegas Ranch and his resolving of discrepancies with other measurements.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee, July 8, 1943
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Archival Collection
Description
Bracken informs the company lawyer that the Las Vegas Land and Water Company has installed a weir to enable measurement of water currently being delivered to the Las Vegas Ranch, and recommends the removal of all references to all amounts of promised water in the lease.
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Letter from F. R. McNamee (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, July 23, 1929
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Since the city was expanding its sewer system, it was a good time to renegotiate their contract to get all the water run off from the city sewer system for irrigation on the Las Vegas Ranch. Written in pencil at top of page "174-2." Letter has two date stamps "A.S.H. Jul 24 1929" and "L.A. & S.L. R.R. Co. Law Department Jul 24 1929."
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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, November 17, 1950
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Archival Collection
Description
Lessees of the Las Vegas Ranch quit paying their rent when the water to the ranch quit flowing. Upon being reminded of the terms of the lease, they paid the rent, but asked for future water delivery plans.
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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to G. F. Ashby, September 10, 1943
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Discussion of the new lease for W. T. Stewart for the Las Vegas Ranch with provisions that Stewart is obligated to use all the water that comes onto the ranch, freeing the Las Vegas Land and Water Company from problems due to effluent.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles), July 1, 1936
Date
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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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee, November 18, 1943
Date
Archival Collection
Description
The water company needed to take steps to ensure that the one million gallons per day that issued from the new sewage treatment plant would continue to go to the Las Vegas Ranch. Handwritten at bottom "This is very important." Date stamps at top E.E.B., H.E.D., and U.P. R.R. Co. Law Department, Los Angeles.
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