The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-03-01
bill FOR HUMBOLDT
IRRICAT|OND|STRICT

Last Monday there was introduced
in the assembly by Welshons, of this
county, bin creating the Humboldt
of said district are to be the outer
limits of the watershed of the Hum
boldt river in the state of Nevada,
and the state engineer is directed to
furnish to the county assessors of
Elko, Humboldt, Eureka and Lander
counties plats and lists of the legal
which exist on the outer limits of said
watershed.
/ Section 3 of the bill provides that
the Humboldt Irrigation District shall
have the following power:
/. To have perpetual succession.
2. To adopt a seal and alter it at
pleasure.
3. To sue and defend in all courts
and places and in all matters and pro-
ceedings.
! A. To take by grant, purchase, gift,
devise or lease, hold, use, enjoy and to
lease or dispose of real and personal
property of every kind WITHIN or
without the district necessary TO the
full exercise of its powers.
5. To acquire or contract to acquire
irrigation works and water rights,
lands, rights and privileges and con-
struct, maintain and operate con-
duits, pipelines, reservoirs, power
plants, works, machinery dams,
bitches, canals, head-gates, fumes,
tunnels, bridges and other propertp
useful or necessary to store, convey,
supply, drain or hold back water, or
to develop water power, for the bene-
fit of the district.
/ 6. To control as far as practical
the runoff of the Humboldt basin be-
yond practical working minimum,
and to deliver under rules and regula-
tions prescribed by the state engi-
neer's office or by the courts, the wa
ter held for irrigation, without charge
to those having vested rights therein
\ to the extent of such vested rights,
and thereafter to deliver to such per
sons at fixed charges water so stored
and held for irrigation and to deliver
the excess to all other persons desir-
/ ing it at the fixed rates in accoi dance
however, with the rules prescribed by
the state engineers office or ty the
courts, or where not so prescribed, in
accordance with contracts made with
individuals.
! Z. To store the excess waters of
any season for use of those who now
have or may hereafter acquire the
right thereto either by appropriation
or by contract, to the end that such
waters may be delivered by said dis
trict in the following season at times
best suited to the needs OF each user,
and especially at the beginning of the
following season in those years when
the natural flow is not yet available.
Also to store the excess waters in
those years when the precipitation and
runoff within the boundaries of said
district is above the normal, and to
hold the same in storage for use in
the succeeding years when precipita-
tion and runoff is below the normal.
Also to establish and make public
record of such normal precipitation
and runoff.
8. To assess and collect from land
owners the benefits accruing by re-
clamation or drainage to any lands of
the Humboldt basin as result of the
construction, operation or mainten-
ance, of any works leased, purchased,
constructed, operated or maintained
by said district Such assessments
shall be made in fair and impartial
manner and so far as applicable in ac-
cordance with the laws of the state of
Nevada for the assessment of benefits
arising from the operations of a
drainage district.
9. To have and exercise the right
of eminent domain and in the manner
provided by law for the condemnation
of private property for public use, to
take any property necessary to supply
the district or any portion thereof
with water for irrigation, to condemn
any irrigation works or system or any
portion thereof, owned by any person
or corporation. In proceedings rela-
tive to the exercise of such right, the
district shall have the same rights,
powers and privileges as municipal
corporation.
10. To borrow money and incur in
debtedness and to issue bonds or other
evidence of such indebtedness; also
to refund or retire any Indebtedness
or lien that may exist against rhe dis
trict or property thereof.
IL. To cause taxes to be levied for
the purpose of paying any obligation
of the district.
IL. To divide the Humboldt river
basin into irrigation units and to pro-
vide one diverting dam and the neces
sary canals leading therefrom for each
such irrigation unit.
13. To straighten out the river
channels and provide levees therefor.
a. To provide flood channels
wherever in order to reclaim irrigable
land such channels are necessary in
any portion of the district.
15 To make contracts, to employ
labor and do all acts necessary for the
full exercise of the foregoing powers.
Section 4 provides for the manner
of election of the board of six direct
ods, three of whom are to be elected
by the qualified voters of the district
for term of six years and three for
three years. Thereafter, on the last
Saturday in March, every third year,