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Water Supply at Las 'Vegas* Las Vegas - June 9th, 1938, (Personal) Mr* H* 0. Mann, Vice-President - Operation, At Las Vegas, W 33-3-3 Dear Howards I am indeed glad that yo$ are in this terri­tory at the present time, as I hfve been worried about the supply of water available for the summer months. During the past week, since the start of the hot weather here, we have made the usual daily oheok of water in the reservoir, and this has been between 5 ft. 5 in. and 6 feet. The reservoir has a oapa© Ity of 11 feet and when full holds about 3,000,000 gallons. I had hoped when the new well ms drilled that we would have ample water to adequately supply the city, and we have had, until recently when a very serious de­crease was shown by measurement of water produced by the new well. Attached is a statement indicating this new well (#3) was producing over three million gallons per day when it was first drilled, and the measurement was about the same when taken by the railroad company * a water service foreman, Mel Anderson, in February 1937, However, for some reason or other it has now dropped off to around 700,000 gallons per day, hardly as much as is being supplied by the pump in the railroad yards, Sinae this shortage has become apparent from measurements in the reservoir, we have arranged for the pump in the railroad yards to be operated in order to augment our supply, Mel Anderson has also been here forthe past few days, endeavoring to increase the flow