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yp - /?“ I Las Vegas, Nevada March 14, 1929 SUBJECT: BEQUEST FOR ACREAGE, UR. FRENCH Mr. F, E. Knickerbocker, General Manager Union Pacific System Los Angeles, California Dear Sir: Acknowledging receipt of your in reference to coiis®unioation fsoSTMT. French of purchasing acreage for home! I have had convert same subject, and would "be this purpose iif it was not road Company and L. V* of any acreage. For i Company lying between to care for our wate portion of that, th­an artesian well tb think it would be wl land below the Tins sent rch 15th desirous French on the 1 him acreage for ricy of both the Rail' they do not dispose age of the Railroad s must be retained to even sell a Id probably seek rst move, and I do not Is drilled on our 86 Springs abut* . 5Xphere i£Nasb<4r^r North and West of the on to Ix>rens5sls/property, which, if you deem advisable, $e(could sel^r'tp Mr. French if he oould secure hie water fraaSone of tabs.pi©sent wells now located on Mr. Lorensi?a lanS^^Nfoen you^ai® passing through, or when nest I am in Los AngHpfKJ wi^L /show you on the map the piece which I refer to* As to the holdings of L. V. L. & W* Go., w© have nothing; only the acreage overlooking the ranch and lying adjacent to the Federal Highway, which includes the sixty (00} acres which was proposed for donation to hotel purposes, and about as much more acreage lying adjacent thereto running along the creek and around the bluff overlooking the ranch. There is none of this land that I would recommend be sold, unless tb^ entire acreage should be out up Into 1, 2, 5, or 7—acre plots, and even then, if sold, there would not be sufficient water for anyone locating thereon to care for that much ground, *1-