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Mr. Strong in a telegram of February 12, following a visit to Lae Vegas the day before said he felt certain that all of the facilities except perhaps one of the last two wells, will be needed this year. LVhandHQo. Distribution of ¥fl,ter to .City Consumers From 1905 to 1927, the LVL&ndWCo. with its distribution lines served only consumers in Clark1s Las Vegas Townsite, but in the latter year a pipe line was laid northerly from the LA&iL transmission line west of the station grounds to reach the original Las Vegas Townsite. Zn 1928, purchase of the water systems of the Hawkins Land and Hater Co. and S. W. Cramer gave the company access to Hawkins Addition, Hawkins South Addition, Buck's Subdivision, Fairview and Pioneer Heights. Zn 1930 the water lines of the Parkview Mutual Hater Co. were acquired, and in 1934 the South Nevada Land and development Company conveyed Its lines in Wardie Addition to the LVLandWGo. More recently the company has extended its distribution system to reach the new and rapidly filling subdivisions of Vega Verdi,, Park Place, H.F.M. & M. Additions and the Federal Housing Project, and authority has been given to extend water lines into Gibson & Cones end Biltmore additions. Hxeept for a very small area provided for by independents, the entire oity is sup­plied with water from the LVLandkCo.'s mains* All of the newer and many of the older homes are landscaped; this principally accounts for the substantial Increase in water consump­tion per customer compared with the average of several years ago. The purehased distribution lines were mostly of wood stave pipe; with the exception of wrought iron pipe used in 1907 and 1910, the