Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-02-04

AN IMPORTANT MEASURE.

It divides the State into four water
divisions. The first is to comprise
all lands within the State drained by
the Truckee and its tributaries. The
second to comprise all lands drained
BY the Carson and its tributaries,
including the small streams draining
into the Carson sink, the Walker
river and its tributaries, and all
lands drained by streams in Esmer>
aida county. The third to comprise
all lands drained by the Humboldt
and its tributaries. QHnn river and
its tributaries, the tributaries of the
Snake river, ard all lands drained
by other streams which are wholly
or partly within the counties of Elko
Eureka, Lander, Humboldt and
Churchill, excepting such as are in
cluled in divisions one and two.
The fourth to comprise all lands
drained by streams which are wholly
or partly within the counties of Lin
coin, Nye and White Pine, excepting
those included in divisions two and
three
1t provides for State Engineer to-
be appointed by the Governor, at
salary of $4,000 a year, but no per-
son shall be appointed who has not
such theoretical knowledge and prac
teal Experience and skill as shall fit
him for the position.
There shall be one Superintendent
for each water division, who shall be
appointed by the Governor. The
Superintendent shall, in the distribu
ton of wate1k be governed by the
Act, but shall have authority to rake
such other regulations to secu the
equal and fair distribution OF water,
in accordance with the rights Of
priority of appropriation, as may, in
his judgement be needed. Any per-
son, ditch owner or stakeholder, in
ditch company who may deem HIM
self inju ed, shall have the right of
appeal to the State Engineer
The bill creates a Board of Con-
troll composed of the State Engineer,
who shall be President Of the Board,
and the superintendent of the four
water divisions, one of whom shall
be Secretary. 1t is made the duty
of the Board at its fist meeting, to
make prorer arrangement for the
determination for the priorities of
right to the use of public waters of
the State, which determination shall
begin on the streams most used for
irrigation and be continued until all
claims now on record shall have been
determined under the method pre-
scribed by the Act. Any person or
persons feeling aggrieved by the de-
termination Of the Board of Control
may appeal to the District Court
Within thirty days after the pass
age of the Act it shall be the duty of
the County Recorded in each of the
counties of the State TO prepare a
a full and complete transcript of the
claims to appropriations of water
now on record IN their respective
offices, and transmit the same to the
State Engineer, for which service the
Recorder shall be paid by the county
twenty cents per folio. The State
Engineer shall classify and arrange
the claims by placing those of
stream and its tributaries together.
Every person or association intends
ing to appropriate any of the public
waters, or the enlargement or exten>
sion of any distributing works, shall
make application to the President of
the Board Of Control for permit to
make such approp ration.
The Board of Control shall divide
the State into water sections to be so
constituted as to secure the best pro-
lection to the claimants for water,
and for each water section there shall
be appointed a commissioner who
shall be resident of the section,
and whose duty it shall be to divide
the water in the natural streams CT
his section, among the several bitches
taken therefrom according to the
prior rights of each, when called up
ON by two or more owners or man
ayers of bitches to do SO.
All cases relating to or affecting
priorities of right to the use of water
for beneficial purposes, in any of the
water sections of the State, now