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V Mr. Strong in a telegram of February 12, following a visit to Las Vegas the day before said he felt certain that all of the facilities except perhaps one of the last two wells, will be needed this year. LVLandV/Co. Distribution of Water to City poneumer.fi- Fro m 1905 to 1327, the LVLendWCo. with ijts distribution lines served only consumers in Clark's Las Vegas Towlnslte, but in the latter year a pipe line was laid northerly from the LA&SL transmission line west of the station grounds to reach the original Las Vegas Townslte. In 1928, purchase of the water systems of the Hawkins Land and Water Co, a n d S. W. Craner gave the company access to Hawkins Addition, H a w k i n s South Addition, Buck's Subdivision, FAlrvlew and Pioneer Heights. In 1930 the w a t e r lines of the Parkview Mutuai Water Co. were acquired, a n d in 1 934 the South Nevada Land and Development Company conveyed its lines in Wardie A d d i t i o n to the LVLandWCo. Mcjre recently the company has extended its d i s t r ibution system to reach the new and rapidly filling subdivisions of Veg a Verdi, Par k Place, H.F.M. & h. Additions and the Federal H o u s i n g Project, and authority has been siven to extend water lines into Gibson & Jones and Biltmore additions, *-x-»ep>. fo very small area p r o v i d e d for by Independents, the entire city is sup­plied wit h wat e r from the LVLandwCo.' s mains. All of the newer and many of the older homes are landscaped; this principally accounts for the substantial!increase in water consump­tion per customer c o m p a r e d with the average of several ye^rs ago. The p u r c h a s e d distribution lines wire mostly of wood stave pioe; with the exception of wrought iron pipe used in 1907 and 1910, the - 6-