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1	Press release by Las Vegas Valley Water District on installation of water meters, October 25,...	News release by the Las Vegas Valley Water District reporting that they had formally requested the state attorney general to review and state officially the legality of the District's plans to install water meters in Las Vegas. Statement included opinions...
2	Letter from E. E. Bennett (Los Angeles) to Calvin M. Cory (Las Vegas), December 22,...	Discussion of the defeat of bills to overturn the metering prohibition and efforts to have a future bill passed. "80-8, 83-4, 80-5-Gen" written at head of page in red pencil.
3	Letter from R. L. Adamson (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, September 10, 1928	Summary of the amount of water used by the railroad, the water company, and for irrigation on the Las Vegas Ranch in 1928 for use in calculating water rates.
4	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Leonard L. Arnett (Las Vegas), June 20,...	Letter to the Mayor of Las Vegas reporting of output from the Las Vegas Springs and wells and consumption by Las Vegas residents.
5	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong, October 26, 1945	Bracken stating that water from company wells should not be used for irrigation until metering can be instituted. The formation of a water district at this time was not desirable for the Union Pacific Railroad.
6	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to W. H. Comstock (Los Angeles), June 17,...	LVL&WC executives had been called to a meeting with the Utilities Commission about water shortages, and W. H. Comstock was seeing if they could quickly increase capacity before the meeting.
7	Letter from E. E. Bennett to F. H. Knickerbocker, June 27, 1936	Discussion of another attempt to get the water metering prohibition repealed in the Nevada state legislature. Bennett recognizes that the law was enacted due to abuses by the Reno Power, Light & Water Company.
8	Comparative statement of meter readings, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1950	Water meter readings at six locations at many different dates in 1950
9	Letter from George O. Treem (Las Vegas) to A. M. Folger (Las Vegas), November 29,...	Treem, the City of Las Vegas Manager, requesting to borrow six water meters to check usage throughout the city.
10	Newspaper clipping, Install meters to check water wastage, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 22, 1949	The City of Las Vegas is installing water meters throughout the city to check usage. The meters are only for statistical usage and will be removed when the tests are done. Newpaper clipping is attached to plain paper with...
11	Letter from A. M. Folger to William Reinhardt, November 30, 1949	The City of Las Vegas was requesting to borrow six water meters to check their water use. The Las Vegas Land and Water co. did not have any, but Folger recommended purchasing them and then sending them on...
12	Report on Las Vegas water situation from C. E. Swann (Rock Springs, Wyoming) to George...	Report on water supply and use in Las Vegas. C. E. Swann, one of the authors of the report was Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Coal Company. The addressee, Mr. George B. Pryde was Vice President of the Union...
13	Letter from W. W. White (Reno) to Senator Pat A. McCarran (Washington, D.C.), September 22,...	Letter written by the Director of Nevada's Division of Public Health Engineering to Senator McCarran informing of sewerage problems in Reno and the Nevada statutes regulating metering of water in larger Nevada towns like Las Vegas and Reno.
14	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to E. E. Bennett, February 26, 1945	Discussion of a meeting with the chamber of commerce regarding water metering in Las Vegas. The water company asserted that their desire for water meters was solely in the interest of water conservation and not increasing revenues.
15	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to William Reinhardt (Los Angeles), March 28, 1941	Table showing meter readings of gallons of water used during a twenty-day period in March 1941. Bracken states the meters are manufactured by Sparling, and suggests they are over-registering.
16	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...
17	Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. C. Barry (Los Angeles), February 7,...	Response for request for information needed to report to the Nevada Public Service Commission regarding electricity used and details of water users and sales in 1929.
18	Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), June 10,...	Letter from the Railroad stating that water meters were necessary to determine what a fair rate would be when the contract between the Railroad and the water company was re-negotiated.
19	Letter including legal opinion from O'Melveny & Myers law offices (Los Angeles) to the Las...	Discussion of laws and court decisions regarding water metering by the Las Vegas Valley Water District.
20	Letter from Franklin T. Hamilton (Los Angeles) to Thomas A. Campbell (Las Vegas), October 21,...	Discussion of the courts holding the water district to the Anti-metering law.
21	Letter including Nevada Attorney General Opinion No. 123 from Harvey Dickerson to Thomas A. Campbell...	Notwithstanding Section 6112 of the Public Service Commission Act, the Las Vegas Valley Water District was allowed to meter water to customers; Opinion No. 123.
22	Letter from R. L. Adamson (Los Angeles) to F. H. Knickerbocker, April 22, 1927	Adamson recommended installing a meter to see how much water the water company was using so they could use the information for negotiatiing a contract renewal for providing water to Las Vegas. "36-47-L" written in pencil at the top. Date...