Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)

Registration No. 333-106419

 

Prospectus Supplement

(To Prospectus Supplement Dated March 16, 2006

and Prospectus Dated April 15, 2004)

 

SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION

 

COMMON STOCK

 

Pursuant to a Sales Agency Financing Agreement dated as of March 16, 2006 between Southwest Gas Corporation, a California corporation (the "Company") and BNY Capital Markets, Inc., a registered broker-dealer organized under the laws of New York ("BNYCMI"), which has been filed as an exhibit to a report on Form 8-K with the Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC") on March 16, 2006, and which is incorporated by reference herein, for the quarter ending March 31, 2006, the Company sold, through BNYCMI, as agent of the Company, an aggregate of 154,227 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $1.00 per share (the "Common Stock"), pursuant to ordinary brokers' transactions on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE").

 

 

			Three Months Ended March 31, 2006
Gross Proceeds to Company			$	4,319,999
Commission to Agent				43,200
Net Proceeds to Company			$	4,276,799
On March 31, 2006 the last reported sales price of the Common Stock on the NYSE was $27.95
Note: SEC fees were not used in arriving at any of the above figures

 

 

 

Neither the SEC nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus supplement is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

BNY CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.

 

THIS PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT IS DATED MAY 8, 2006