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July 6, 1951 You, o f course, are fa m ilia r with the fa c t th at Case No. 1207 i s s t i l l under submission by the Commission, t h is being "In the M atter o f the Water Service Furnished the R esidents o f the City o f Las Vegas by the Las Vegas Land & Water Company*. This c ase, you r e c a l l , was heard in September 1950 and p r io r to the term ination th ereo f an agreement was reached th at we would i n s t a l l pumps b e fo re th is summer, a l l o f which has been done. The testimony o f our expert w itn esses, Mr. Robinson, D is t r ic t Engineer, U .S . G e o lo g ic a l Survey fo r the Ground D iv isio n , and Mr. Hugh Shamberger, now State Engineer, were s u b s ta n tia lly to the e ffe c t th at there was a g reat o v e rd ra ft in the underground basin and that the con tin ual d r i l l i n g o f w e lls would, in the lo n g run, In crease that o v e rd ra ft . Mr. Shamberger f e l t that new w e lls could be d r i l l e d and a la r g e r water supply secured as an emergency measure pending the a c q u is itio n o f water from other sources which he f e l t was d r a s t ic a lly n ecessary. He fu rth e r sta te d that i f the d i s t r i c t d id not go to some o u tsid e source, the state would p robably have to r e s t r i c t d r i l l i n g . There i s , o f course, the danger that i f we f i l e the a p p lic a tio n proposed and pressed i t , that the C ity o f f i c i a l s would I n s is t on a fu rth e r h earin g in Case No. 1207 and demand that the Water Company e ith e r d r i l l more w e lls o r acquire p re se n tly producing w e lls pending fu rth e r in v e s tig a tio n as to the n ecessity o f going to Lake Mead o r pending any oth er excuse they might think o f . I b e lie v e th is m atter should be con­sid e re d se rio u sly when con sid eration i s bein g given to f i l i n g the proposed a p p lic a tio n . Mr. Wm. Reinhardt Page 7 . Bennett