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f Las Vegas Review /ournal-March 6} 1950 Water District 1 Manager to Be j Hired Soon, Said Choice of a general-hianager for the Las Vegas valley water district, is expected to be made within the next week or 10 days, clearing the way for early ac­tion on the various problems fac­ing the board of directors, in j bringing water in from L a k e j Mead. A conference has been sched-1 uled for jj Saturday night with Kenneth Hill,, senior engineer for j the firm of Greeley and Hanson Chicago, consultants, who car­ried on the preliminary studies | for the district, and at that time ; applications for the executive post will be canvassed. As soon as this choice is made, the board plans to proceed a t ; once with negotiations along;] lo u r major lines,' completion o f’ ;which are regarded as vital to! ;the ultimate success of the pro-: ject. These are-: 1. -Purchase of the Las Vegas Land and Water '-company’s! wells and facilities. Officials of the compaify have indicated a i readiness and willingness to en­ter into discussions looking to-; ward ultimate taking over of1 their Las Vegas operation by the' water district and no difficulty is anticipated in this regard.. 2. -Purchase Of the pipe-line and pumping facilities now car­rying water from Lake Mead to Basic plant. The board expects to negotiate with the Nevada Colorado river commission for: this unit, with the understand-! ing that the plant will have first! call on whatever water is nee-* essary -for -ttsr operation. 3. -Completion of an agreement with the air force for supplying the 4,000,000 gallons per day ul­timately needed there. 4. -Contract with the resort ho-, . tels in the “ strip” ’ a.rea for their! I water supply now obtained from wells. Members of the board of direc- : tors are confident they vyill be able to carry through the de­tails Of the program -and ac­tually get under way with con­struction sometime during 1950.