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Las Reitew Journal Water District Bond Issue Vote Hoped by Corning Fall Faced with critical Isas Vegls water shortage, the Las Vegas valley water district directors, along with representatives -of the Colorado river commission, moved today to bring the water - • - ’ • trict proposal to a bpnd i ssue vote before the summer is over. The water district directors met this morning with John V. Mueller, GSA ’ representative, and Frank Strong, of the Colo­rado river commission, to nego-ttatp revisions in the interim contract for th e' transferral of the pumping facilities from the GSA to the water district. The GSA had requested re- i visions of the stop-gap agree-1 pient. lt asked that amendments < reciting benefits which would ac­crue to the state.of Nevada and the lessees at the Basic plant, be added to the agreement. A proposed draft was submitted by w-ato-r .district to Mueller this morning and he reported he Would approve all amendments made iii accordance with the GSA requests. Last minute negotiations were under way this afternoon be­tween the three agencies involv­ed with the Southern Nevada power company, to provide for additional power facilities to take care of proposed operations at the Manganese Incorporated. An 8,000,000 kilowatt hour al­lotment, provided to the Man- • ganese Incorporated by the CRC, j is now transported over a 69,- 000 KV line currently used to ! furnish power for pumping faci- 1 l^ties at the Henderson water plant. ; The water district officials; raised the question that if M an-: ganese Incorporated is allowed 1 to use this line alone, this will' crippie the pumping facilities j and the district would like to have the line cleared so that. the pumping facilities could con- j t.inue. . f There is another line which could be used and every effort : will be made to transfer the Manganese Otes power allot- : men! to that line. The transfer is the subject of the meeting j this afternoon. An emergency meeting of the 'CRC has been, called for this week, as soon as a quorum- can ; be rounded up, to give approval , to the transfer of the Manganese i Ores power load to the other line. The water district has sche­duled a meeting for-this, after-noon, at which time progress of the negotiations will be dis- j cussed and every effort made ' to speed up the program so the ' bond election can be held this fall. Jess Larson, GSA head in | Washington, is scheduled to leave for Belgium' on July ,15, and it is hoped the presentne-gotiations can be concluded in time for his approval before he leaves. ^uly 10 1951