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Letter from Clayton V. Smith to C. McLeod, June 19, 1913
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Letter to C. McLeod, May 15, 1913
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Letter from W. E. Smith to C. McLeod, June 10, 1913
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Letter from W. E. Smith to C. McLeod, June 11 [1913]
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Letter from H. I. Bettis to Walter R. Bracken, October 15, 1908
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Letter from Las Vegas Land & Water Company to Walter R. Bracken, November 14, 1908
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Letter from F. A. Waters to H. I. Bettis, December 30, 1907
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Rex Bell Jr. riding on a hobby horse at Walking Box Ranch, Nevada: photographic print
Bell Family Scrapbook scanning, Set 4, proofed 11.04.2010 Rex Anthony Bell, Jr (Toni Larbow Beldam) at age 3 dressed in western cowboy outfit on a hobby horse that Tom Mix gave him. Location unknown
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Photograph of John Quincy Lisle at the edge of his reservoir, Las Vegas, circa 1930
Lisle stands at the edge of the reservoir fed by an artesian well on his homestead.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "John Quincy "Jack" Lisle at the edge of the reservoir on his homestead in the Las Vegas Valley, about 1930. The reservoir is located not far from the present intersection of Twain and Eastern streets and was one of the best artesian wells in the Las Vegas Valley. At the time it was necessary to make a winding road off the Boulder Highway to reach the homestead. Most people thought that Lisle was absolutely insane to locate a homestead in such a desolate place, but Lisle, and amateur geologist, staked his claim there because he figured that water would be abundant because the land was near the Flamingo Wash. At one time Lisle raised 40 acres of alfalfa on the property."
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