The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-10-18
LOCAL WATER USERS 70 MEET
Hon. R. L. Douglass Receives A
Letter From Klamath Pro-
ject, Which Follows.

iOAaND, OkE., Oet. IL, 1911.
Iruckee-Carson Water Users Assn.
Fallon, New.
Gentlemen:
We most earnestly urge the advisa-
ollity of each Water Users Associa-
ton assisting IN perfeeting permanent
organization of the proposed National
Water Users Association" for mutual
cooperation in efforts to procure laws
and regulations that will protect both
the borrower and the lender of the rec
lamation funds.
The water user is the borrower and
the UniteC States is the lender.
The borrower is required to give an
iron-elad mortgage on his home as Sc
curity for the repayment of an acreage
proportion of whatever sum shall be
charged against the project of which
his home is part.
The lender being fully secured, the
borrower is the party vitally interest
ed, and should be protected by laws and
regulations that will give him some
voice in the expenditures that shall be
charged against his home.
The reclamation law was designed
for the purpose of making additional
homes in the arid west, and not for the
purpose of con6scating the homes of
the previous settlers through impossi-
bic taxation without representation.
The borrower of reclamation funds
should be advised of all proposed plans
of expenditures that are to be charged
against his home, and should be given
monthly itemized statements of all such
expenditures.
The reclamation service should exist
as an agent to expend the approved
loans for the benefit of the borrower,
and with the borrowers consent and
approval.
The borrowers should have laws pro-
tecting them in the future ownership of
all canals, reservoirs, lower sites, wa
ter rights and other properties and re-
sources acquired under the reclamation
act. for use in connection with any pro-
ject, and to prevent the alienation of
such resources without the consent of
the water users.
The borrower should also be protect
ed by laws providing for extension of
time of payment, in extreme cases,
upon payment of reasonable interest
during the extended time.
Laws that can be depended upon to
protect the borrower must originate
with the borrower, and cooperation is
necessary in order to secure such laws
and regulations.
The United States is amply protected
for the funds loaned, and the agents
have secured laws and regulations to
protect themselves and their jobs,
while the water user silently pays the
bills or vacates.
The borrower should cease to petit
tion the bureaucratic agent, and coop
crate in demand for laws that will
protect himself in the expenditure of
the borrowed moneys.
A petition to congress from an organ
ization composed wholly of representa-
tives of water users who have furnish
ed the security behind the reclamation
fund, would be just as appropriate as a
recommendation from a bureaucratic
employe, and should receive just as
much consideration.
Federal congressman are more inter-
ested in their various constituent water
users than in the bureaucratic en-
ployes.
We urge that each Water Users As
sociation send a delegate or proxy
representative to Chicago early in De-
cember, with instructions to meet with
other water users representatives and
proceed to perfect the organization Of
a National Water Users Association,
and to recommend such legislation as
shall seem needful and appropriate for
the best interest of the various water
users.
The past winter spent in Washington
in the interest of the klamath water
users has convinced me that the time
for united action is at hand.
Will you cooperate in national asso-
citation?
Very respectfully yours,
ABEL ADY,
President klamath Water Users Asso-
citation.