Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-06-18
THE IRRIGATION PROJECT.
It's Benefits and Vast Resources Given
In Detail.

Its Benefits and Vast Resources Given
In Detail.
Francis G.. Newlands.
The seventeenth of June, long
celebrated as the anniversary of the
Battle Of Bunker Hill. will be his
toric in the annals of Nevada as the
Gay on which the Reclamation Act
was signed and also as the day on
which water is turned for the first
time into a government canal upon
the desert The event marks the in-
auguration of a new public policy,
influence upon the future of the Unit
ed States
The nation lifts it's hand, and the
waters which have formerly wasted
in the sinks Of the desert flow across
the Divide from the Truckee into
the drainage area of the Carson. TIE
nation lifts its hand, and the lands
which have been worthless become
valuable for agriculture. The ma
ton lifts its hand, and the closed
doors open to the entry of surplus
population from Overcrowded eastern
cities, while the retarded development
of Nevada gives place to a new day
of progress and prosperity.
The ceremony at Hazen by no
means marks the completion of the
entire Nevada project outlined by the
government. The entire project calls
for the expenditure of many million
dollars and will reclaim large areas
of desert lands. The portion Of the
for thousands of families and rep
resents a large outlay by the gov
eminent. For the most part. the
lands reclaimed are part of the public
domain and open to settlement by any
citizen who has not exhausted his
homestead rights. The Secretary CT
the Interior determines they are open
to entry by each settler, within GER
tain limitations. There are localities
where the limit is forty acres, others
where it is eighty acres, and yet others
where it is one Numbered and sixty
acres the purpose being to provide a
sufficient area according to soil or To-
cation to support family. No pa
ment Of the land is required beyon
the cost of filing and recording Bu.
the settler must repay the actual cost
of reclamation in ten annual install
ments without interest. The settler
will not get title to the land until nc
shall have completed the payments TO.
water. There is no way in viii III
any, except a genuine settler can OBJ
tain land. Speculation is barred by
the provisions of the law, and where
private lands is held in large bodies
it must be subdivided into quartz,
sections. since no individual can pur
chase water right for more than :
lone hundred and sixty acres.
We anticipate an era of great activi
W III the agricultural development {
Nevada, dating from the hour whe'
water is turned on from this fir
canal. We are to have new Nevada
with deserts transformed into produc
tive valleys and with men and womel
:. OCCUPYING the places which have lon;
sustained only cattle and sheep. TIL
expansion of population on the sol
means a corresponding increase i
towns and cities, and the Stimulate
Of business for the benefit of bankers
merchants, worhingmen and railroad
-, Ia a word it means a new impulse :
the prosperity Ct the entire State an
all elements Of its people
I believe it would be impossible I
estimate at this time the influence
which will ultimately flow from tt
., attempt which we are celebrating i
Nevada. The American people WI
learn lessons from this example of il
ternal Development and domestic e
panson. They viii begin to realiz
re the enormous value Of their undevelo
ed resources, and to understand no
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