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has Vegas -April 29, 1941 SSfffi w i-i-a Ur, jp M. Jeffers, President, Omaha, Nebraska, | Dear Sirs In March 1940 I wrote your office in connection with a re- miBst *• had ah that time fro* local men to purchase aoreaga on Berth fjjjg . Main Street, north of the present fair ground and postoffice sit®. Please see Mr* Ashby1s letter June 2, 1940, | B01r enclose the letter from Mr. Gafclan under date of April 36, copy of which 1 have kept for my files, in which he asks that further consideration be given his proposal to purchase this acreage at the appraised price of $600 per acre with restriction® as to its development * fhe group he represents comprises some of our moat substantial business men* If favorable consideration is given to this proposal I believe it would be t© our best interests to install an 8—inch cast iron water main paralleling North Main Street which is the location I have pre­viously discussed with and recommended to Mr. Ashby for this specifio purpose, A line to be constructed either paralleling North Main Street or North fifth Street to the ranch was authorized Under W0*388~l of June 12, 1940, from which was to be built a line aoross to the Stewart burial plot so that we oan provide them with the water reserved to the heirs in the original deed covering the purchase of old Stewart ranch. Our Law Department has ruled that they have a priority of four miner*s