The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-31

carry ON warfare in the courts no
good will be derived from it. No mat
ter what the decision of the courts may
be, the water supply will continue to
decrease. The ranchers cannot be
driven from their homes, which they
have occupied for thirty years or more,
whether the law says they have any
right to the water or not. Consequent
ly, whenever the river is low, there
will be trouble over the water. The
only true remedy is for all hands to go
to work and increase the supply. The
money expended in doing this will not
be laid up in the masonry of the dam,
but will flow back to the same hands
that paid it out"
The following week the farmers of
Carson Valley held big meeting in
Genoa. From a two-eolumn account
of this meeting in the COURIER of Sep
TENDER 9th, 1899, we take the follow
ing paragraph:
1.-THE Chair appointed a committee to
wait ON Mr.. Summerfield, who was in
PRODUCED to the meeting and stated
that he had consultation with Francis
G.. Newlands, executor of the sharon
estate, about the meeting and it's object.
That Mr.. Newlands had stated that he
had read the article in last weeks
COURIER about the proposed objects
and that they largely conceded with
his own views. That he thought that
money judiciously spent in the storage
of water was more wisely spent than
in litigating about what is already
available. He thought that conference
might result in the ranchers, the mill
men and the State uniting their funds
and building a dam that would store
enough water for both the ranchers
and the mills. Mr.. NeTlands dis
claimed any intention to relax the suit
already commenced unless some feas-
ible plan could be agreed upon to store
water. According to the best informa-
ton he had been able to obtain, $780,
600 would be required to complete such
a water storage system as was needed
on the Carson river. Provided the
100000 appropriated by the State
could be secured, he thought if the
farmers would contribute $4,000 the
millmen would raise a like sum, and
thus make up the amount. If the
ranchers saw fit to consider this prop
osition and would call another meeting
Mr.. Newlands would gladly meet with
them"
Later, on October 13, 1889, Mr.. New
lands met with the farmers in Genoa
to consider the matter of withdrawing
the suit and the building of storage
reservoirs on the Carson river. At
this meeting Mr.. Newlands suggested
that corporation be formed with a
capital stock of $3.50, 900 to build reser-
voirs; that the State take stock to the
extent of 100000 and the farmers and
mill men invest 49, 900 each; that all
parties using the water pay stipu-
lated price and that the business be SO
managed that it would pay per cent
on the investment.
The legislature of the previous year
had appropriated 100000 for the build
ing of reservoirs in Nevada 1t was
proposed to secure this sum for inuest-
ment on, the Carson river and to begin
work at once; but it was afterward
learned that the State could not go into
partnership with individuals or cor
poration in the construction of reser-
voirs, and the scheme fell through.
At the conclusion of his speech Mr..
Newlands said that under the new irri-
CATION law one individual could secure
only water enough for 100 acres of
new land and that this provision of
the law would have a tendency to
compel the large owners of sagebrush
land, like Mr.. Dangberg, to sell their
holdings in small tracts to home seek
ers who could secure water.
The meeting adjourned with three
rousing cheers for the success of the
Fusion ticket
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