Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-07-25

The Lyon County Times on
state Needs.

StatC Ner0As
The cry of the mill men ant
ranchers for water is louder thi:
year than ever. Last Winter ant
Spring it was thought that the snow
y that fell in tie mountains would
keep the mills on he Carson run.
ming until the IN ddle of August.
but the middle oil July finds the
river almost diy. one cause for
, the miscalculation is that most OF
. the snow that TELL last Winter set
tied on the other side of the water
shed o. the S:erras, and when the
Summer suns came and melted il
the water flowed into California in
stead of coming this way. Another
cause for there being less water
this year is the tact that large
quantity Of new land has been taken
up along the head waters of the
river in California as well as
in this State, and considerable
more water has been required for
irrigating.
Next Summer when the water be-
comes low in the river there will be
| the same wall from those who need
it for irrigating and other purposes.
Last Summer the cry arose early.
Two years ago it was the same way,
and nobody was any better off after
the Legislature had met and potter
ed around and spent 100000 and
done nothing about irrigation, or
anything else that amounted to
much. Two wears ago there were /!
numerous bills presented for the !
consideration of the representatives |
on irrigation. Most OF them were |
for appropriations for making ex-
perlments in sinking artesan wells
The bill that was passed has SD far |;
amounted to but little, and in our
opinion the artesian well scheme
for irrigation, while it is good
enough as far as it goes, will never
secure water enough to Irrigate all
the land that is susceptible of cul-
tivation in this State. There are
some pieces of land where wells can
be sunk and a sufficient flow of
water obtained to irrigate large
number of acres of ground, but
there are many more acres of good
land along the courses of the Ne
yada rivers That could and would
be reclaimed if there was only wat
err enough in the streams.
The only Correct way to start an
irrigation boom in this State is for
the State itself to take hold of the
matter and save the vast quantity
of water that is every year going
TO waste in the Spring. This can
only be done by an appropriation
OF sufficient amount OF money by
the Legislature to build dams and
in the canyons at the
head waters of our principal
streams. 1t will cost such a mint
Of money, you say. :
Admit that it will take 500, 900
Or $150,000 to bnild reservoirs and
1ams at the head of Que princi- j,
pal stream, say the Carson. There
ire thousands OF acres of land
llong this river that are now not
lnder cultivation because there 10
10 water.
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and it would be taken up and cul-
ivated, the population Of our State,
he mills along the streams would
lot have to lie idle half of the
ime as they do now, and if such
were resorted to at the u
lead OF all the principal rivers, the fl
'tate would soon become prosper Z
us and thrifty. 1t would well be &c
forth the outlay OF few hundred C
thousand dollars. Il
The reason we would advocate N
he State taking the matter in hand b
, that if she does not it will net be N
many years before corporations will tt
nd We do not believe it would be 81
s advantageous for settlers to look