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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. J. Balch (Los Angeles), October 20, 1913

Date
1913-10-20
Description

Bracken notifying the Union Pacific Railroad that the water situation on the Stewart burial plot was satisfactory.

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Letter from Franz A. Maroshek (Las Vegas) to J. M. Murphy (Las Vegas), February 18, 1948

Date
1948-02-18
Description

The County Health Department called on the City Manager to enforce Ordinance 76 to prevent the use of effluent to irrigate land that was used to raise dairy cattle on the Las Vegas Ranch.

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Letter from Howard W. Cannon (Las Vegas) to W. H. Johnson (Las Vegas), April 17, 1951

Date
1951-04-17
Description

The irrigation practices on the Las Vegas Ranch were being blamed for the mosquito problem in Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was being asked to address it.

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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), May 26, 1943

Date
1943-05-26
Description

Bracken recommends to Strong that Stewart's lease be renewed and discusses just how much water is to be included with the lease.

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Letter from R. L. Adamson (Los Angeles) to E. E. Bennett, November 14, 1952

Date
1952-11-14
Description

Discussion of needed revisions for the contract for the Las Vegas Valley Water District's purchase of water production facilities and land from the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Letter from A. Maguire (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, October 30, 1924

Date
1924-12-16
Description

Maguire informs that Bracken was planning on using surplus water from the new artesian well to irrigate land on the Las Vegas Ranch.

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Letter from Colonel Moore (Moapa, Nevada) to J. T. McWilliams, January 25, 1903

Date
1903-01-25
Description

Moore explaining to McWilliams the methods he used in measuring the water on the Las Vegas Ranch. Handwritten text transcribed by cataloger.

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Letter from A. M. Folger (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, February 21, 1948

Date
1948-02-21
Description

Discussion of drilling two wells on the Las Vegas Ranch to make up for the irrigation water lost by the City forbidding the use of effluent, and of giving up acreage for the Elks and a sewer treatment plant.

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Letter from [A. M. Folger] to Hugh A. Shamberger (Carson City), August 23, 1948

Date
1948-08-23
Description

Request to the state engineer to expedite their permit to drill a well since the period for people to object had expired.

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Photograph of a bridge over the Las Vegas Creek, circa 1940

Date
1938 to 1942
Description

Creek on the Las Vegas Ranch with a footbridge built over it

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from back of photo: "The little creek at the Old Ranch used for irrigation - taken about 1940"

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