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Violation notice of the water waste city ordinance, 1950

Date

1950

Archival Collection

Description

Violation notice (front and back) informing violators that if they violated the ordinance again they may be arrested (City Ordinance No. 218)

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Letter from L. R. Maag (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt (Los Angeles), June 19, 1953

Date

1953-06-19

Archival Collection

Description

The Las Vegas Land and Water Co. received complaints of trucks taking water from fire hydrants, wasting large amounts of water and causing water pressure to drop.

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Letter from Alfred Merritt Smith (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken and Robert B. Griffith (Las Vegas), May 25, 1945

Date

1945-05-25

Archival Collection

Description

Notice from the state engineer that Robert B. Griffith and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company were both being called to a hearing to discuss their conflicting applications.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, February 26, 1945

Date

1945-02-26

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 Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, October 11, 1945

Date

1945-10-11

Archival Collection

Description

Bracken asks if the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. should oppose a proposed well by Kenny Searles.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee, November 18, 1943

Date

1943-11-18

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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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt, January 18, 1950

Date

1950-01-18

Archival Collection

Description

Report on the results of the state engineer's test of a new well in Las Vegas.

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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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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), August 26, 1939

Date

1939-08-26

Archival Collection

Description

Letter confirming details regarding the drilling of a new well at the Las Vegas Ranch.

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Work order authority for extensions and additions to existing property, September 6, 1939

Date

1939-09-06

Archival Collection

Description

Engineering department work order detailing work to be done and estimate for new well on the Las Vegas Ranch.

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