Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to G. F. Ashby, September 10, 1943

Discussion of the new lease for W. T. Stewart for the Las Vegas Ranch with provisions that Stewart is obligated to use all the water that comes onto the ranch, freeing the Las Vegas Land and Water Company from problems due to effluent.

1943-09-10

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to Frank Strong (Los Angeles), May 26, 1943

Bracken recommends to Strong that Stewart's lease be renewed and discusses just how much water is to be included with the lease.

1943-05-26

Letter from Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), November 1, 1939

Letter explaining the application to appropriate public waters. The unsigned application and well log are referenced below.

1939-11-01

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to William Wittwer Estate (Las Vegas), May 1,...

Bracken informs the Wittwer Estate that the spring near the Las Vegas Ranch is running again and needs to be covered and locked.

1942-05-01

Letter from Howard W. Cannon (Las Vegas) to W. H. Johnson (Las Vegas), April 17, 1951

The irrigation practices on the Las Vegas Ranch were being blamed for the mosquito problem in Las Vegas, and the Las Vegas Land and Water Company was being asked to address it.

1951-04-17

Letter from Leo A. McNamee (Las Vegas) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 23, 1939

Letter accompanying the agreements with the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and the drilling company.

1939-08-23

Telegram from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), August 18,...

Copy of a telegram to Omaha explaining the water shortage on the Las Vegas Ranch and requesting authority to drill a well.

1939-08-18

Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), May 30, 1943

Strong is reluctant to commit the company to a specific amount of water to be delivered to the Las Vegas Ranch.

1943-05-30

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...

1943-06-08

Aerial photograph of Las Vegas Valley Water Project, early phase, circa 1970

Aerial view of the Las Vegas Valley Water Project. Construction might be part of the Leonard R. Fayle reservoir and pumping station

Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to Leo A. McNamee, May 29, 1945

Robert Griffith had filed a protest to the water company's drilling of well #11, most likely in response to their protest to his well. Strong recommended contacting Griffith's lawyers and offering to drop their objection in return for him...

1945-05-29

Letter from Frank Strong (Los Angeles) to E. E. Bennett, May 5, 1945

Strong believed that the water company's protest against Griffith's well was ill-conceived and recommended selling water at wholesale rates to Griffith.

1945-05-05

Newspaper clipping, Water waste is prohibited by law, April 28, 1945

Newspaper clipping from unknown source reminding readers of the city ordinance forbidding the waste of water.

1945-04-28

Letter from Franz A. Maroshek (Las Vegas) to J. M. Murphy (Las Vegas), February 18, 1948

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.

1948-02-18

Letter from W. T. Stewart (Las Vegas) to Las Vegas Land and Water Company (Las Vegas),...

Stewart notified the Las Vegas Land and Water Company that unless water was provided or the rent lowered, he would terminate the lease and vacate the property.

1951-01-01

Letter from G. J. Sylvain, M. D. (Las Vegas) to Mr. Folger (Las Vegas), March 28, 1949

The County Department of Health was going to add oil to the effluent to kill mosquitos, and asked the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to report excess oil running onto their land.

1949-03-28

Aerial photograph of Last Frontier Hotel and Casino, Nevada, 1945

Aerial View of the Last Frontier Hotel and Casino looking west.

2024-05-14

Chart, Comparative measurements - water production, Las Vegas Springs, circa 1935

Flow measurements from the Las Vegas Springs and well in July 1931, July 1934, and June 1935.

Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker (Los Angeles) to W. R. Armstrong, August 18, 1928

Knickerbocker (Union Pacific Railroad) approved of providing Earl with a limited amount of water for an emergency situation.

1928-08-18

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to R. L. Adamson, August 5, 1936

Bracken had been trying for months to get the roof over a reservoir at the springs repaired, and now a dead rabbit had been found in the pool.

1936-08-05

Newspaper clipping, Water level decline shown, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 15, 1945

Newspaper article summarizing a 1945 U.S. Geological Survey report of a sharp water level decline in the Las Vegas artesian basin.

1945-03-15

Letter from Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas) to C. J. Balch (Los Angeles), October 20, 1913

Bracken notifying the Union Pacific Railroad that the water situation on the Stewart burial plot was satisfactory.

1913-10-20

Letter from Las Vegas Land and Water Co. General Manager to C. W. Shelley (Las Vegas),...

Las Vegas Land and Water Co. requesting an invoice from the city to pay the money they owed for having two uniformed officers enforcing water restrictions for the summer.

1950-07-07

Letter from F. H. Knickerbocker to Walter R. Bracken (Las Vegas), March 6, 1929

Knickerbocker was asking Bracken to investigate the Winterwood property as the president of the Railroad company was interested in properties that they had not yet managed to acquire.

1929-03-06

Memo about water usage in 1935 in Las Vegas, March 24, 1938

Paper from notepad listing the number of gallons of water used in 1935 by the water company and the railroad. Information is provided by Johnson, Office Engineer. Typed telephone message from Mr. Johnson, Office Engineer.

1938-03-24