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County agent project report, Erosion-flood control, April 1938
Summary of situation, goals, duties of cooperating agencies, and procedures regarding the effort to prevent flooding and erosion threatening properties and silting Lake Mead. Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, University of Nevada Agricultural Extension Division and United States Department of Agricultural Cooperating. Project Number: State Office #172, Clark County #12.
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Data on wells and springs from the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, 1950
List of wells and springs, amount of water filed for, and the purpose the water is used for
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Letter from William Reinhardt (Los Angeles) to L. R. Maag (Las Vegas), June 12, 1953
Approval of the recommendation that the police department assign two officers to enforce water restrictions at the expense of the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for the summer months as has been done in previous years
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Chart of pressure readings from a well at Huntridge subdivision, June 1950
Handwritten note: three days of pressure readings from a well in the Huntridge subdivision
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Letter from D. F. Wengert (Los Angeles) to W. C. Perkins, April 5, 1950
Letter indicating that the State Engineer may soon require the metering of the wells and springs in Las Vegas.
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Letter from T. E. Fennessy (Las Vegas) to the Las Vegas Land and Water Company, May 31, 1946
Letter written by the Las Vegas City Manager, announcing a meeting on June 14, 1946 to discuss the water situation in the Las Vegas Valley. The letterhead includes a green colored engraving of an artesian well and an irrigation headgate. The attached letter mentioned by Mr. Fennessy is referenced below.
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Telegram from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles), Frank Strong (Los Angeles), and Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas), March 7, 1945
Coded telegram regarding the proposed water metering law before the Nevada State Legislature.
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Memo from Walter R. Bracken to E. E. Bennett about Lake Mead and Basic Magnesium, Inc., November 18, 1944
Bracken recommending that if Las Vegas was successful in getting water from Lake Mead through Basic Magnesium Incorporated that the artesian water be used for domestic purposes exclusively and the other for irrigation.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. M. Jeffers, November 13, 1944
The Chamber of Commerce agreed that the artesian water in the valley should be reserved for domestic purposes, and Lake Mead water for irrigation, but Bracken wrote that this was academic because Basic Magnesium Inc. had no excess water.
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Chart of Las Vegas water consumption in 1940, circa 1941
1940 Las Vegas water consumption by month.
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