The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-08-02

trough sunk in the ground. The bottom
is down about three feet and over this
the sand will be allowed to fill in. There
can be no undertow or backwashing from
the overflow.
The waste gate is a most necessary
thing Sometimes we have a flood and 1t
is essential that this water should be al
lowed to escape to the lake. IF it should
once get a start through the levee 1t
would soon eat a hole till the reservoir
was empty.
TO prevent the water from creeping
around the ends and to give a purchase
to hold the great weight of water that
viii rest against the gate there are built
five wings, twelve feet each. These run
into the embankment and will be solidly
packed.
A wagon road will be made along the
dyke crossing the inter works. The road
will cross bridge at the waste gate.
This bridge is entirely Independent of the
gate and rests on separate pilng.. Andrew
Olsen and H. A. Killebrew are the car
penters that built the headgate.
The amount of land that this reservoir
will irrigate will depend entirely upon
the conditions OF the season. Last year
very little water would have gres Y
helped the company for a late irrigation.
II is generally estimated that an acre
foot is needed to raise a crop. But If
the company should get an irrigation
from high water in the spring their res
ervoir would insure a crop on five or six
thousand acres
This is but the forerunner of a series
OF three reservoirs. The company ex-
poets to turn the entire area dyked off
next cross dyke will be built about a
mile and and half below the first. and
the third down about five miles Prof.
Thurtel of Reno has done the engineer
ing work.
A popularity of this valley is that the
water runs on the high side. From the
point where the tule headgate is there is
a fall of several feet over towards
Browns Station. This lay of the valley
enables the company to store 1t water on
the high side of the valley and thus re-
The company also is better situated in
regard to water rights than one might
suppose. being one of the last to make
an appropriation from the river. 1t has
water rights by purchase and appropria-
ton from the Marzen slough, the Kulew
slough, the Lake Shore slough, and from
the Humboldt river.
| The water on the low land comes near
| the surface anyway. 1t is the company's
the roots will easily get down to water
In building the waste gate 1T was neces-
sary to put in pump to lay the mud
stills and 1t kept horse busy raising the
water only foot or two.
Moreover. the company receives the
benefit of all the waste water from the
upper valley. IS Mr. Noteware expressed
it, all the upper valley was a reservoir
for them and the waste water seeped
down to them all summer long. They
have made provision to take care of the
waste water. The Highfiyer ditch, which
runs on the township line west a mile
this side of the Tule ditch, carries water
drainage from the upper ranches. The
company owns across the valley from
foothill to foothill and thus no water can
get by.
Last year the company cut about a
thousand tons of wheat. This year there
should have been a big crop If it had not
been for short water. They planted about
! twenty-five hundred acres. Much of this
will be cut for hay, but still they expect
six hundred tons of grain. About two
hundred acres is in alfalfa.
The officers and directors of the COM
pany are Geo. S. Nixon. president; ]. II.
Thies. vice-president; w. c. Noteware,
secretary: Hiram Stoker superintendent;
Joseph HILL
They each owned fifth of the stock,
but some time ago II was divided up into
sixths, and now +. NJ. Lee and r. C.
Moore have a sixth between them
The waste gate of the reservoir is about
completed and the dyke is ready to hold
water In another month no water will
get by until the reservoir is filled This
marks the beginning of the system that
will prove the salvation of the valley.
Let us all join in wishing success to the
Lovelock Land and Development Com
pany.