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Las Vegas - March 5* 1952 W M . R-Mr. R, M. Sutton » Omaha MftR 7 oc: Mr. Wm. Relnh&rdt-Los Angeles*^ Mr. E. E. Bennett-Los Angeles Mr. ¥* H. Hulsizer- Omaha Referring to your airmail letter of February 29, File 704-35 concerning data furnished Mr. Bennett: I am attaching revised pages 7 and 8 based upon the figures set forth in your letter with the exception of "Extraordinary Expenses". In addition to the retirement charges of #6 4ff-,f4 under WQ’s 669 and 678, we incurred an estimated expense of #851 in rearranging service connections incident to the replacement of water mains under ¥0 678, which was charged direct to maintenance of distribution mains. As this was an out-of-face rearrangement and not ordinary maintenance, we have deducted such expense in the revised statement In order to arrive at a comparison of oost of ordinary maintenance. the years 1950 and 1951? amounting to $29 028 and ,|42 878 respectively, in preparing the original statement on page 7, we used the expenses as reported on Form 7 - Statement of Operating Revenues and Expenses for these years. In prep&rlni the attached revised statement, we have^ as previously stated, As regards the supervisory and office expenses for used the amounts of |30 ?19 and |44 422 respectively. Ihe revised comparison appearing on attached page 8 shows an increase in cost of operation per consumer from 17.81 In 1950 to $8.72 in 1951'and an estimated cost of #8.73 in 1952.