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Photograph of Walter R. Bracken sitting at a roll-top desk in an office, probably inside the Las Vegas Post Office. Bracken served as Las Vegas' postmaster from 1904-1914. The calendar on the wall is for May 1908.

Knickerbocker wanted to know how to proceed if Las Vegas citizens made an attempt to acquire the Las Vegas Land and Water Company through condemnation.

Transcribed Notes: Handwritten at bottom of page: Please check Nevada laws & Pub. Uti ? advise whether a municipality can acquire the property a Pub Utility by condemnation & ?

Discussion of another attempt to get the water metering prohibition repealed in the Nevada state legislature. Bennett recognizes that the law was enacted due to abuses by the Reno Power, Light & Water Company.

Reinhardt recommends that the water company remain non-committal about the creation of a water district in Las Vegas until it is clear how it would affect the interests of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

E.G. Tilton, Chief Engineer of the The San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, replies that the railroad company has no intention of drilling any wells in Las Vegas because of the abundance of spring water in the area.

Proposal submitted to the delegates representing the States of California and Nevada in reference to the development of the Colorado River

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