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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Studio photograph from Universal Studio Pictures Corp. film Battling with Buffalo Bill. Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) in costume. Labeled on back of image:"The Univeral's serial, 'Battling with Buffalo Bill' with Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, Rex Bell, William Desmond, Francis Ford, Jim Thorpe, George Regas, Chief Thunder Bird and Yakima Canut."

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Studio photograph from Universal Studio Pictures Corp. film Battling with Buffalo Bill.  Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) in costume. Labeled on back of image:"The Univeral's serial, 'Battling with Buffalo Bill' with Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, Rex Bell, William Desmond, Chief Thunder Bird and Jim Thorpe."

Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute.Studio photograph from Universal Studio Pictures Corp. film "Battling with Buffalo Bill."  Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) in costume. Labeled on back of image: "A scene from Univeral's serial thriller, 'Battling with Buffalo Bill' with Tom Tyler, as Buffalo Bill, Lucile Browne, Rex Bell, Jim Thorpe, Chief Thunder Bird, George Regas; Yakima Canut, William Desmond, and Francis Ford."

Floyd Francis (center), Jake Beckley (right), and unidentified man in the "Old Swimming Hole" on the Von Tobel and Beckley property

Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Floyd Francis (center), Jake Beckley (right), and unidentified man (on left) in an old swimming hole formed on the property of Von Tobel and Beckley."; Transcribed background history: "Early Las Vegas History by Florence Lee Jones, April 1969: Creating their own oasis in the Las Vegas Valley was the hobby of the late Ed Von Tobel, Sr., and his partner, the late Jake Beckley, when they came to Las Vegas in 1905 as gay young bachelors. At their ranch in Paradise Valley, where they owned the 120 acres now comprising the Sierra Vista Ranchos, exclusive residential area, they used the facilities at hand to form an 'old swimming hole.' From one of the three wells they drilled they diverted the free-flowing water into a nearby creek bed, built a cement dam to contain the water, and had their own pleasure resort. In this picture, from left, an unidentified man; Floyd Francis, early employee of the Von Tobel Lumber Company; and Jake Beckley, a partner in the fi

Request that if the water supply going to the ice plant was to be turned off for any reason, that the ice plant be given 15 to 20 minutes warning to avoid a possible explosion.

Given the condition of the Las Vegas Springs, if an outbreak occurred, the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company would undoubtedly be liable, so the situation needed to be rectified immediately.