Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1899-08-09
WATER COMMITTEE
AT WORK.

| While some thousands of theorists
in this State are wasting valuable
newspaper space with vaporings,
| Douglass county ranchers are going
right ahead on practical lines and hew-
ing the way for others to follow. 1t is
action, not talk, and the results SO far
accomplished are really wonderful OF
their latest move the Genoa Courier
says:
The farmers who irrigate their
lands from the east fork of the Carson
river have divided the territory into
four districts and appointed COM
mittee of four farmers who have full
charge Of the distribution of the water
The members of the committee are,
VIM. Dangberg, John Frantzen, VIM.
Lampe and Henry Lange. This COM
mttee touches the button "opens the
head-gates) and the water does the
rest. No one else is allowed to touch
the water. The entire flow Is
used in one district for four days and
then moved to the next district Every
farmer is given all the water he wants
for the four days the water Is in his
district. This plan was put in opera
ton last year and proved very salts
factory.
1t is only short time since this
years committee took charge OF the
water, and II seems that up to few
days ago not quite all the farmers Of
were aware that a committee had
been appointed. The committee went
into one district. bringing the entire
flow of the river and found couple of
neighbors quarreling over the water.
The committee promptly told them to
take back seat and it they wanted to
fight anybody to fight the committee.
The result was that both farmers were
given all the water they wanted and
everybody was delighted.
Each farmer is required to turn his
waste water so that it will run onto the
next farm. Thus every drop of water
is put to good use and none is allowed
to run on barren land. AS stated be-
fore, the dividing of the territory into
districts and placing the same in
charge of a committee has brought
good results and the farmers are we'll
satisfied.
We often glide along from month to
month and year to year without look
ing about us and taking an inventory
of the business, so far as the comnun-
ity at large is concerned. When we
looked over the situation In Carson
Valley, take an inventory and compare
the result with that of few years ago,
the result is highly flattering. Take,
for instance, the progress of the valley
since the establishment of the cream
cry industry. That opened up mar
ket in California for every pound Of
butter that could be produced and the
farmers nearly all turned their atten-
ton to cows and studied the best
methods for producing the richest and
greatest quantity of milk. Train loads
of COWS were shipped in from Califor-
mia and the long rcks of alfalfa were
converted into the finest quality of but
ter that found ready sale in the large
cities Of the Golden State. This
brought cash income every month to
to the farmers and through their thrift
and frugality they have turned this
stream Of money to the improvement
of their farms, the building of new
barns and handsome residences, all Of
which enriches the valley and puts
plenty Of ready money in circulation.
This industry is better than a gold
mine. for it will never be worked out
A few years ago the farmers raised
oats and harley and a little what fo,