The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-19
UTAH CAPITALISTS
INVEST IN NEVADA
Irrigation Company to Reclaim
Land Near Reno to lnC0r-
pOrate Soon.
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Fpbraim. Dec. ls.-Incorporaton papers
will shortly be filed under the laws of
Nevada for the Truckee-California irriga-
ton company. The capitalization will be
IS BOD. 900 divided into $1,000 shares OF So
each o. b. Berglund OF Gunnison Will
be the president. and W. +. IouesFup OF
Salt Lake the secretary.
Since early in June Of this year Mr..
TolIestrup and Mr., Berglund have been
working quietly on this project. During
the summer the preliminary surveys were
made by a Reno civil engineer, and the
course OF the necessary canals, tunnels,
etc, and the reservoir sites were plated
and recorded. The utmost secrecy was
maintained throughout all Of these pre-
liminary arrangements even 10 the Qe-
ferring the filing and recording or the III
CORPORATION and other papers.
Both are men who have made the bust
ness Of big irrigation projects IN DOln
Utah and Colorado careful study. Two
OF the projects they have put through
in Utah, have proven signal financial
successes. Prior to their undertaking this
project they made exhaustive studies or
the rainfall and run-Ott OF the country
involved and procured the best engineer
ing talent available to make the neces-
sary Investigations and preliminary sur
Veys before they planned TO go ahead
with the undertaking.
Salt Lake capital is chiefly behind the
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invested a large sum of money IN the
company and Mr.. Tollestrup Is also heav-
lily interested financially.
It means the expenditure Of upward Of
$4,000 in the near vicinity OF Reno, and
the opening up for the cultivation Of i'm
mense tracts Of land to the north Of the
city,
Some idea Of the size OF the project and
of the proven belief Of the capitalists
behind il in the ultimate financial success
faa 7lrrf a
the following outline of the chief feature
of the enterprise.
Independence creek, which is the out
let Of Independence lake, not far from
FloristOn flows into the little Truckee
river at a point in the northeast quarter
Of section IL. At this point a dam will
be built. and the combined waters OF the
two streams win be DETECTED into the
canal.
White lake, where a reservoir will be
! constructed, there viii be p miles OF
canal, pipe line and tunnel The length
| of the tunnel which the contour Of the
country will necessitate in the supply
canal, is about 3,400 feet.
Immense Reservoir.
Just west Of White lake, where the con-
| s-rvatiOn reservoir will be, the incoming
| water viii be carried over the divide and
down into the basin, This conservation
/ basin with the construction of the neces-
/ sary dam, will give storage capacity OF
l 1z3,U00 aCre-feet Of water. This capacity
/ is that given by raising the water TO the
/ 55-fOOt contour line, which is as high as
/ it viii be raised at present The surface
| of the lake will have an area of 3,34s
! acres. The contour Of the basin Of White
/ lake is such that the water can be ulti-
mateiy raised by a higher dam. to tbs
/ lOl.foOt contour line above the bed Of the
| lake without exceeding the spill level
/ This viii give a storage capacity OF 432,O 90,
| acre-feet.
/ ID Livery Of water from the White lake
/ reservoir to the land to be reclaimed viii
| be through a tunnel $500 feet long, tax
I ing the water out at a level with tn
! bottom of the lake b d and delivering Il
into the channel of Long Valley creek
| Thus the water Of the Truck and IN
! dependence creek will be carried into and
/ By way of tunnels. the aggregat tunn
/ length of 5000 or above one and one-ftftf
miles.
The estimates Of the engineers who hav,
the work In hand for the construction Of
canals, tunnels, reservoirs and dams vii
be- betw en- 100000 and Sj00O00. this est
mate viii i'm all probability be heavil!
exec sded when the actual construction Z
done.
The articles Of Incorporation provid
that the TruCkee-CalifoTnia Irrigation
company may acquire, by purchase ant
appropriation. 10000 inches Of water from
the Little Truckee, 10000 inches from
Prudy creek and 10000 from Long Vale
creek-a total Of 10000 inches Of water
/ Mr.. TOllestrup just returned from Ne
eral months.