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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 Pat McCarran (Washington D. C.) to Harry E. Miller (Las Vegas), April 14, 1954

Date
1954-04-14
1954-04-19
Description

Senator McCarran states he will introduce two right-of-way bills and warns the language of the bills may be considered too broad by the Senate committee. Attached is a typed note in reference to the letter. Letter id date stamped, April 19, 1954 by the law department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company.

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Deed for nine specific parcels of land, Las Vegas Land and Water Company to the Las Vegas Valley Water District, Audit No. 5350, June 1, 1954

Date
1954-06-01
Description

Deed of the land sold to the Las Vegas Valley Water District from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, except for the water right reserved in Helen Stewart's deed. Notarized by Louis Scholnick in Douglas County, Nebraska on June 3, 1954.

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Letter from Leonard L. Arnett (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 20, 1935

Date
1935-06-20
Description

Letter from the Mayor of Las Vegas requesting detail about water production and usage in Las Vegas. Handwritten notes on letter.

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Letter enclosing report on Las Vegas water supply from Henry Albert (Reno) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) postmarked May 26, 1925

Date
1926-01-21
Description

Enclosed report entitled Investigation of the water supply of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. On April 24, 1925, by Dr. Henry Albert, Director State Hygienic Laboratory, and Associate Sanitary Engineer, Isadore W. Mendelsohn, U.S. Public Health Service. Date stamp from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company

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Report, Flood control and soil conservation in southern Nevada

Date
1938 to 1950
Description

Brief history of flooding along the Virgin River and a list of work undertaken to prevent or diminish future flooding.

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Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken, October 12, 1945

Date
1945-10-12
Description

While Las Vegas was experiencing a water shortage, the Las Vegas Land and Water Company should not protest the drilling of new wells as this might incite hostility. A water district may be formed that would be able to prevent unwise drilling.

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County agent project, 1940 additions, Erosion - flood control, 1937-1940

Date
1937 to 1940
Description

Revised summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Report originally signed in May 1937. Handwritten notes throughout document. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics-University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Project Number: State Office #172, Clark Co. #12

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Memo from Edward C. Renwick to E. E. Bennett about the Las Vegas Land and Water Company being required to augment its water supply, 1952

Date
1952
Description

Discussion of the relevant legal issues and court decisions relating to the question of whether the railroad could be forced to increase water production

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