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^ for cooling. A fifty-ton ice machine manufacturing fifty tons of ice per eight-hour day would use 100,000 pounds of water, or approximately 12,000 gallons for ice making, while testimony indi­cates that refrigeration for cooling purposes would use approximately 1200 gallons of water during the same period, but there was no dif­ferentiation In the rate covering these widely different uses of water. That this situation was finally realised by the Company is evidenced by their suggestion "There is no doubt the rate is out of line and we have been working on a tariff modification to cover the different equipment and also to include the evaporative coolers which are not in our tariff anyway." The Commission at the time ordered "That the Las Vegas Land and Water Company file a new schedule within thirty (30) days for cooling water, for refrigerating machines, segregating them from 1 to 10 tons and by 10 tons up to 100 tons; for ice making machines segregated from 10 to 100 tons. You are to submit the new schedule to the Commission, with copies to the protestants, and upon approval of the new tariffs, the Commission will submit it to the court having Jurisdiction over this particular matter at this time, for approval, and the Commission will retain Jurisdiction until the mat­ter is finally settled." and the Commission remarked "We hope that you will make a rate that will be an incentive for the people to do away with that type of cooling (evaporative coolers). We think, again, if you offered something for the change that it will be more of an incentive to make the change." In conformity with the order, the Las Vegas Land and Water Company on or about October 14, 1952 filed a new Rate No, 21 to become effective December 1, 1952 as follows * - 6 -