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Mr. J . P. Macks I 00 # Up , Frank Strong Mr* John Sn orf ) ii^g w ater ©onsuaptlon In la # Vegas as shown by m a t e r a s t e r reco rd in gs* s t r e e t , Ogden and West Bide, bat re p o rt only the t o t a l f o r a l l fo u r* ©n th is b a s is , i t I s q u it# p o s s ib le f o r u s t o re** e e iv # 424 a i l l i o n g a llo n s p e r month, a s re p o rte d f t r August, m n t o f d e liv e r ie s to W ater Oompany in 1948 and m e as re p o rte d to the Auditor- and you w i l l note the g a llo n a g e i n - c e a s e d about 30 M illi o n in March and A p m t h is y e a r, @0 a i l l i o n in May and 100 M illio n in June. B ear liv a in d the in crea se s above r e fe r r e d to were recorded ut> to June 1 st w ith the th ree o ld meters o n ly , as the C harleston m $tw was \ not p laced in se rv ic e u n t il June 1 st* tm a p p re c ia te the f a c t th at we m ist re p o rt these consumption f ig u r e s promptly to the A u d ito r a t the end o f eaoh month so th at he can in c lu d e them l a h ie Fbra 7* I do claim the m eter read in gs a r e c o rre c t! they ean*t be* Bat a t l e a s t they a re con sisten t* Bash summer when we siost iwed accu rate fig u r e s on w ater consumption, one o r another o f tbs meter# i s out o f order f o r three o r fo u r months a t a tim e, w a itin g f o r r e p a ir p a r t s . W hile Mr* S «© rf i s c o rre c t what we can not pass more w ater through the meters than the w e lls produce, y e t we cannot use estim ated p rod u otiom -iigu res f o r re p o rtin g com sumption, u n le s s we want to aband o f meters a s b e in g u n r e lia b le . We checked the C h arleston meter ntwsfc r e c e iv in g ^ the re a d in g s rep o rted by Mr* Edwards, beoause we were not s a t i s f i e d th at they r e fle c t e d the true g a l l o In pur re p o rts to the A u d ito r, we make no attempt t o s e p a r a t e d e liv e r ie s between C harleston B oulevard. C lark Far y o u r re fe re n c e , | attach im p e r a t iv e s t a t e * W . H. J. SEP 9 1946 through th a t meter, th ese re a d in g s weref