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Lafee Head, wli4®h nm anda * the B&sl® BagneoiuEi X^rojaet, on y. ’ __ • * to has Vs* :m* Aa you wiU recall, the flovomuont and® a re* oormataeano® of & similar proposal five or six years ago, ®i® plan then being to bring the water In fmca l*c&e Head for irrte* gat ton of the has Vogas Valley* hut when It was found that this water would oost $30*00 per acre* the idea was abandoned. In the Ohapbor of Gotmarm mmlttm meeting last night, the engineers worn none too hap y '-ha t ©100003 of tlw « present plan* and in. foot' flatly stated it would not ho practical fmci a financial standpoint unions the has Vega® band and Water ? Go*s ayaten ootild bo tdton into the plan, sren so* HM cost be of the baits water delivered at I*as Vegas would/il$ per 1*000 gallons or snore than thro® times our post. Conso<|u@ntly, th® doueetie rat® for water to the wmmmmp hero would hare to be increased,. proaenting on objectionable problse, to say nothing • of the (polity of the water*. It was also stated in’?Kits private meeting of the ocooltte® last night that two years ago in a mooting held at the M, Bandho between the Chamber of Cooneroe ®iEibers and r@pre- aontatlves of the Railroad Ooiapsny, that the Railroad Oocapeiqr stated it would sell the water, system to the Oily. Xm ami 1 were both present at that nesting* and as I recall it your r#» ©pones® was that yew had no authority to answer that (pestion a® it would have to be passed upon- by our executives in Omaha. In 1944, X secured sea® figures on the cost of tho - Basic Magnesium Plant pip® lino and pumping system* which iiv , voiced some 15 miles of 40-ineh welded steel pipe, pumping plant*