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LOS AHGELEB - Sept. 3, 1948 Pile: 80 Mr. Wm. Reinhardt: Referring to Mr. Folger1n letter of August 2?th to you, his file ¥ 23*1, attaching letter from Mayor E.W. Gfragin of the City of Las Vegas asking the water company to extend its facilities to territory adjoining the City of Las Vegas but without the corporate Halts of the City, for the purpose of furnishing fire protection to the hotels and other resorts along the *strlp*j Mayor Cragin states that the furnishing of water through these extended facilities would be for the sole pur* pose of furnishing fire protection to these hotels and re» sorts and that the County of Clark would be willing to grant us a franchise which would not obligate us to furnish water for any other purpose. In order that you may have before you the situation with respect to the rights and duties of X submit the following information: our water company, In 1969, the Board of County Commissioners of Clark County granted to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, a corporation, a franchise under and in pursuance of an act of the legislature to construct, Install, lay, operate, maintain and manage for munioipal, agricultural, household and other purposes, a system of water pipe lines etc. in# along and across all the avenues, streets and alleys of the unincorpor­ated town of Las Vegas in the territory more particularly de­scribed in the franchise. This franchise ran for a period of 26 years from and after September 2, 1909. On January 21, 1930, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas granted to the water company what is designated as a permit, but is in substance a franchise, to install, lay down and maintain water pipe lines and appurten­ances in, through, over and across, any of the streets and alleys of the City of Las Vegas, and any and all additional tracts, subdivisions, and additions which may hereafter be added to the City of Lag Vegas or hereafter laid out or sub­divided for the purpose' of supplying the Inhabitants of the City of Las Vegas with water. This permit ran for a period of 50 years from the above date and is still in effect»