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% >flY 2,1965 FEBRUARY 16,1935 Las Vegas Land and Water Co. FAITHFUL AND DEPENDABLE SERVICE FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS • ? 401 SOUTH SECOND ST. PHONE 30 i's,i THE'BEGINNING OF THE LAS, L VEGMS LANt) & WATER CO: - Ini 19A2 when ps|«t-of-way was being. ftirveyed,' Construction 6f ,a •.railt&aa,' Senator Clark saw the 'necessity for pro­viding; an adequate' water supply foi' his locomotives. At that fiine. the present source of water Supply for the city of Las . Vegas was owned by the, 'Stewart ranch, and' the Water was permittg^ . to, .flow ?from--the spring down Las Vegas t|.creek, to the ranch. Senator Clark j|i| purchased the/Writey ? .rights,,^or ? M railroad use’ wafer ' f-br'domestic ii use being secured from surface 11 welisj on whatsis now known as. H “West - Side” 'which was the. I original townsite. % I ' In 1905, Walk’s Las Vegas town- d.. site,. was,,pBtted| oh, the e’Sst side' i of the railroad tracks, and the i lots were placed on sale by Walter |. K. Bracken, Who at -that'time .w‘as I the postmaster, located at the Old i Ranch, and who has been manager I .of .the water company sinbeits’in-' f' eeptiori. ’1 ;As the little town grew, the need - for an adequate Watdr supply "be- T came ‘evident, and on Hlay 2, i90'5, the Las Vegas I,and and Water ; company was incorporated. A 1 pumping station was built and the I water from the creek was pumped t through 2 and 3 inch pipes to the | various houses, and to the busi- f 'hdss-'district 3which was located on Fremont, between First and Main j streets. ' T In *1928, a 2,500.000-gallon reser- n ,v°ir was. constructed^ approximate- ? ly two miles of 24-inch eastirori pipe " was laid and a well bored to aUg- ? ment the water supply in anticipa­tion, of. the abnormal increase , in r population expected from con­i' struction of Boulder dam, the cost > of which was in excess of $175,000. ||§ .the .present time, over 800 f million gallons of water' per year !i, ?rf- s.CT?('d to ^ % 1800 I'fSiSenfies,'! Pt industries arid husiness .'Kouses 'of i the City thru 19 miles of distribu­tion .mains and 4 miles of 16x24 I inch cast iron pipe transmission [ mams. , a: I -ed ed- .ha th fir' no th( oil bee ha. go: tri pic oil age of Th be HK th A. m D tis La: I raj' uri: fit didi has pals dug eigl larj sha didi the. net