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Photograph of Russell well, May 15, 1922
Russell artesian well
Transcribed Notes: Handwritten on front: Russell Well[s], May 15, 1922; Handwritten on back: Taken by Julian Anderson
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. J. Balch (Los Angeles), October 20, 1913
Bracken notifying the Union Pacific Railroad that the water situation on the Stewart burial plot was satisfactory.
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Letter from F. R. Adamson (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, April 22, 1927
A suggestion that although the renewal of the agreement between the Railroad and the Las Vegas Land and Water Co. was unimportant, since both were wholly owned by the Union Pacific, they should take the opportunity to use meters to figure out how much water the water company was using.
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Letter to R. E. Wells, March 19, 1909
Letter describing how the pipeline from the Springs should be replaced, and how something needed to be done about the low water pressure experienced by the town when filling trains.
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Letter from E. E. Cunningham (Yermo, Cal.) to J. P. Mack, November 27, 1930
Discussion of selling water to people living next to the Arden Pipeline, provided they were not using the water to manufacture moonshine.
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Deed for a parcel of land, Las Vegas Land and Water Company to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, Audit No. 5354, June 1, 1954
Deed of the land sold to the Las Vegas Valley Water District from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company. Notarized by Louis Scholnick in Douglas County, Nebraska on June 3, 1954.
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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, April 3, 1929
Consideration of adding a line for fire protection to protect new leases in a new industrial area and how users would be charged.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to J. P. Mack (Los Angeles), March 11, 1939
Walter Bracken urging the Union Pacific Railroad Company that serious maintenance needs to be made to a wooden pipeline which was leaking badly in numerous places with summer quickly approaching.
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Letter from G. F. Ashby (Omaha) to William Reinhardt, September 12, 1948
Ashby agreed with Reinhardt that extending water lines beyond the city limits, even for fire protection, set a dangerous precedent
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Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 26, 1930
Letter outlining the procedure for a one-time purchase of bulk drinking water on the St. Thomas line.
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