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\ \ Houses at Las Vegas: Mr. H. C. Nutt General Manager, Los Angeles Dear Sir: I duly received your joint letter December 3rd, also oopy of Mr.Clark*s reply thereto of December 5th, in relation to construc­tion of houses at Las Vegas for company employes. All my experience in connection with the providing of houses for employes has been confined to those built and owned by the Company. The departure outlined in your letter of the 3rd instant brings up a proposition that I am not very familiar with, but if Mr.Clark and yourself are satisfied that it will work out all right, and is not going to make a real estate and loan firm of the Company, X certainly have no objections to offer. vanced to employes who want to build their own homes is to be ar­ranged for by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company, rather than the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company. sider it preferable to provide additional houses for employes in the manner outlined, rather than have the Company build the houses and rent them to erapl—jjj| itt ? —|—*“ I presume it is the intention that the money to be ad­However, as I stated above, if Mr.Clark and yourself con- Cy to Mr.1.Ross Clark