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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas), April 1, 1942
Bracken informing McNamee of the solution to the water delivery problem to the Stewart burial plot.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leo A. McNamee, July 8, 1943
Bracken informs the company lawyer that the Las Vegas Land and Water Company has installed a weir to enable measurement of water currently being delivered to the Las Vegas Ranch, and recommends the removal of all references to all amounts of promised water in the lease.
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Letter from W. H. Johnson (Las Vegas) to Howard W. Cannon (Las Vegas), May 4, 1951
Mr. Johnson informing the city attorney that the land causing the mosquito problem was the four acre Stewart burial plot, and referred him to the Stewart heirs.
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Letter from Joseph Irving (Las Vegas) to A. M. Folger (Las Vegas), February 27, 1948
Estimate for the drilling of a well on the Las Vegas Ranch.
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Letter from E. C. Adams (San Francisco) to Al Folger (Las Vegas), July 15, 1949
Letter accompanying a report from the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific for Las Vegas.
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Press release about invitation for farmers to submit water use bids, Las Vegas, November 5, 1943
Copy of a press release to be printed in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal. It stated that the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas was taking bids to use the water from a new disposal plant. Bids were accepted up to and including November 16, 1943. Document has stamp of the Union Pacific Rail Road's law department dated November 20, 1943.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), May 7, 1931
If his proposal to run a pipeline to Industrial Unit No. 1 is approved, Bracken will begin construction immediately.
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Charts, Comparative statements per capita water consumption, Las Vegas, 1941-1942
Two charts comparing the water consumption in Las Vegas. The handwritten chart documents a ten month period (January-October) in 1941 and 1942. The typewritten chart documents a four month period (January-April) in 1941 and 1942.
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Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Guild comparing water consumption for September 1941 and September 1942, October 8, 1942
Letter comparing Las Vegas water usage in September 1941 and 1942.
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Letter from J. Ross Clark to R. E. Wells, March 22, 1911
Though Wells agrees with Bancroft that the spring does not need a cover for health reasons, one might be necessary to keep swimmers out of the drinking water.
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