The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-08-07
Will SOON FINISH
LAHONTAN dam

Anent the projected water question,
which is not altogether understood
by the valley residents, Project En-
gineer ID. w. Cole states first hand
that the LahtLtan dam will be very
impo' rant s5nnct to local irrigation
with the passing of this season. BY
January l. 1914, he says, the Lahon-
tan dam gates will be set and a com
plete control will be had of the flow
OF the Carson. On that date it will
be possible to conserve a body of wa
ter 90 feet in depth at the dam, which
will mean the impounding of approx
mately $4,000 acre feet of water
which in itself will practically meet
all needs of irrigation of the districts
OF which Fallon is the center. This
heighth will be sufficient to allow of
the diversion of the surplus water, if
any there should be, to the old river
channel over the dam s left spillway.
which will be the safety valve con.
trolling the situation, according to en-
gineering reckoning
Meanwhile, the dam s construction
will proceed throughout next season
and within twelve months from this
time it is confidently expected that
the dam will be completed to it's
crest, 110 feet above the structure =
base. and that all that will remain to
be done will be the cleaning up of
the rubbish about the dam and camp.
Friday the maximum days work
was performed, 1000 cubic Yards hav-
ing been moved on that date from the
dirt supply on the hill to the embank
ment, which is rising rapidly under
the efforts of the large force at
Lahontan
Mr.. Cole figures on taking the in
ltiative in the land restoration mat.
ter, should no earlier departmental ac-
tion be had, on or about January |,
1914, when he will ask the Washing
ton authorities to restore the large
bodies of public lands remaining.
tributary to the bitches already con-
strueted, meanwhile, figuring out ten
tatlve plans for project additions, in
Guiding the Churchill valley and
Pyramid lake schemes. the last named
being dependent upon the adjudication
of the rights to the water of the
Truckee watershed.
BY setting things in motion at the
outset of the year, when the i'm
pounding process will be active. it is
Inquired that early spring will witness
the much hoped for land restorations
and consequent influx of settlers an
xious to essay the roles of government
project farmers. At distant points.
according to the reclamation authori-
ties in Washington, great numbers of
people anxiously await the word from
the government people of the reopen
ing of the 1ruckee Carson project
lands to settlement, and signs surely
point to period of activity in this
project during the year 1914 previous
ly unknown here.
In this connection it is but right to
state that Mr. Cole has been an earn
est exponent of the early opening of
land. Being on the spot and knowing
thoroughly the conditions extant. it
has been his judgment that next
month is the proper time to restore
'rtain districts in this project to set
tlement. Had the water users of this
valley been thoroughly organized into
working body with an executive
Duncil no such resolution could
ve passed the censorship that is
maintained by properly regulated as
sociations, providing, of course, that
the sentiment preponderated against
it, as it must do in this instance
Standard.