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Las Vegas - April 1, 1943 I '33-4 ¥ 18-6-3 Mr. R. fipprecht, General Auditor, Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir: Referring to your J—300 and our telephone conversation with Mr. Briscoe concerning reconciliation covering water consumption in Las Vegas 1930 *- 1941 as outlined in my telegram B-3G March 24th and as given you each year for Annual Report. I submit the following explanation: 1931: Total water sold, as shown for annual report, 650,000,000 as reported to us by R. R. Co. Actual accord­ing to monthly reports was 650,000,032, however last 32 . gilions was dropped by R.R.Co. to make even amount. September, October, November, and December estimated account meter out of order. 1933: Apparently due to accumulation of small discrep­ancies each month carried by using conversion factor of 7.5 gals, per cu. ft. but using 7.48 gals, in converting annual. ' - iff 1933: Error in calculations, made in adding total gallons by months to get annual total for annual report. 823,393,979 is correct. 1937: Typo r&phical error in my telegram; should have read 125,495,047 cu, ft. or 938,703,963 gals, as shown on annual report. 1939-1940-1941: Please see exchange of correspondence commencing with your File BD 1-8 June 7, 1938. After a conference in Los Angeles in Aug. 1938 it was agreed that the R.R. forces would furnish water information to this office where statistics would be compiled, to insure con­sistency in the figures furnished you. The reason for this is that although each of the wells has a potential capacity of several hundred thousand gals, per day, we