The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-07-15
TROUBLE FOR NEVADA HILLS NEVADA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
May Be Utilized in the Develop
ment of Electricity For
the States Use.

w. p. Harmon and a syndicate of
English capitalists and New York and
Boston bankers completed last week
the payments amounting to 1000, 600
on combinat lion of water and power
companies in the Sierra, which are to
be incorporated under the name of the
Lake Tahoe Power and Water Com
pany, and in the development of which
it is proposed to expend not less than
81, 900, 900 annually for the next four
years.
The principal purpose of the syndi-
cate is the development of power from
the water of Lake Tahoe, of which
il controls the only outlet, and trans
mission lines will be run on both sides
of the mountains, supplying the entire
State of Nevada as far east as Ely,
and on the California side to Sacra-
mento, and through the valley of the
Sacramento river.
At the same time it was announced
that w. P. Harmon, who is still in
he Fast has reached an agreement
nth tn United Ssate5 Government,
whereby the suits IN winch The Interior
Department had made him defendant
in the Federal courts in seeking to
protect the Truckee- Carson project
from the encroachment of Harmon on
the waters of Lake Tahoe, have all
been dismissed.
The entire output of the plants now
combined, together with that which
will be constructed near Lake Tahoe,
will be developed to 200,000 horse
power, and the assertion is made that
it will exceed in magnitude the Great
Western Power Company.
The concerns which have been con-
solidated by the Harmon syndicate are
the Truckee River General Electric
Company, the control of which Harmon
recently purchased from the Fleiseh-
hackers; the California-Nevada Elec-
trio Power Company, which had been
controlled by F. G. Baum and Francis
V. Keesling, and the Loon Lake Water
and Power Company, which has been
in the hands of Chick ring & Gregory
The final payment on the last option
has been made, completing total of
SO, 600, 900 paid for these properties.
Harmon is said to have expended
81, 900, 900 personally in the investment
and in keeping the options alive during
the formation of the syndicate. The
balance represents the investment of
the English capitalists, and it is pro-
posed to expend 1000, 900 more in the
development of the properties, while
other concerns may possibly be taken
in at later date.
The plans of the syndicate in the
development of power from the waters
of Lake Tahoe are admitted to be of
broad scope and involving the sale OF
water as well as electric power, but
the details are carefully guarded
against publicity at the present time.
''The syndicate controls the only out
let to Lake Tahoe Attorney A. E.
Boynton, who represents Harmon, said
recently. There had formerly been
log dam at that point, but there is
now being constructed a cement dam,
and the corporation which will be or
ganized by the syndicate expects to
use the waters of Lake Tahoe to a
very large extent for the development
of power.
On the Nevada side of the mountains
it is the intention of the company to
supply practically the entire State of
Nevada, and itpurposes to build trans
mission line 400 miles in length. This
will be one of the longest lines in ex-
istence, but it is thought that the dry
climate of Nevada win make its opera
ton a success.
In January the plans Of the syndi-
cate were threatened by suit which
the Secretary of the Interior ordered
the Department of Justice to bring
against Harmon, to wrest from him
the possession of the land at the outlet
OF Lake Tahoe, and the control of the
water.
Within the last two weeks Harmon
has perfected an arrangement with the
Government whereby these suits will
be dismissed. Harmon gets the use
of the water in its long series of falls
down the mountainside.