The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-02-24
PLANS OF new
WATER COMP ANY


Editor Silver State:
Dear Sir: At the Get Together
banquet at Winnemucca last week, a
great deal of interest and enthusiasm
was manifested in the proposed plans
of the Greater Humboldt Corporation,
but since then many persons who say
they would like to invest in the com.
pany have expressed the fear of COM
plications with the Lovelock ranehers;
and / woul like to explain exactly
what the company intends doing to
eliminate entirely any danger of
trouble there, or at any point in the
Humboldt valley.
The company has three contracts to
enter into with stockholders or water
users. In each one is an obligation
constructed will be the canal across
Battle Mountain basin, which will
send down to every water user below
there more than double the water
that now reaches them; and no water
is to be stored or diverted by the com
pany till that is done.
The first contract is a binding OBJ
legation by the company that it will
deliver to the water user accpeting it
and owning lands lying under the pro-
posed system, full supply of water
every year for every acre he has un-
der irrigation, at a price per year not
TO exceed what it is now costing him
for his present uncertain supply.
The second contract is a similar OBJ
legation to a stockholder who hasslands
under irrigation lying under the pro-
posed system, and in addition he is to
have the right to secure from the
company water for irrigating more
lands, and only pay seventy-five per
cent as much per acre as the water
will be sold to others, not stockhold-
ers.
The third contract is an agreement
that, after the company has construct
ed the works by means of which the
water users under the proposed sys-
tenn shall be supplied with the water
they have right to, a stakeholder
who owns lands that are above the
system may use water in irrigation of
more land, if he can find the water
fo. it, by paying half the cost per
acre for construction of the proposed
s. stem.
In each contract is the positive
statement that, before water can be
used upon any new Land, the lands
now under rigation and lying under
the proposed system are to be sup
piled with water and that is made a
first and prior charge upon the pro
posed water system forever.
It was fully expected that the Love
lock people with not much more than
onef fourth Of the valley under irriga-
tion, would be glad to come into the
company and secure water for more
land; and the plans of the company
have been laid with that expectation.
But Mr.. Butler has been to Love
lock twice asking them to become
stockholders, and has come back and
reported that they say they are per-
fectly satisfied with their present
water conditions, and will not oppose
the company in its proposed works !;
and only three men-Mr. Anker, Mr..
w. C. Pitt and Mr.. J. g. Taylor told
him they would like to take stock of
the company. (Mr. Anker is now
one of the directors of the company
tract is to be offered to every water
user in Lovelock valley and that will
eliminate any trouble that could pos
sibly arise in the future by them.
The question has also been asked
about trouble with the Big Bend, or
Pitt and Taylor reservoir.
That point was taken up with those
men last December and both said they
thought it would be best to have the
matter placed in the court, and they
would accept a finding based upon
the U. s. Geological Survey measure
ments of the water flow in the val
ley. This was agreed to orally, and
to place the matter in proper form a
letter was sent to each one, that one
company should bring a friendly suit
against the other, fling their state
ment of facts in writing with the
Court, by both. And the further Of
fer was made that, in dry seasons,
when under present conditions they
would receive full supply of water
to fill their reservoir, the Greater
Humboldt Corporation would deliver
to them ten per cent more water than
the decree of the Court allowed.
No reply has ever been received to
that letter, but Mr. Butler has inform
ed the directors of the Greater Hum
boldt Corporation that both Mr.. Pitt
and Mr.. Taylor had offered to him to
sell the reservoir to the Greater Hum
boldt Corporation, and at the last
meeting / was instructed TO communi-
cate with them, and find what terms
could be made.
The Greater Humboldt Corporation
would like to have that reservoir, as
il would greatly assist in furnishing
Lovelock valley water needed for the
early irrigation; but should negotia-
tions fail, the acceptance by us of
their offer to have a friendly suit to
decide upon the amount of water they
shall receive in the future, and our
agreement to see that they receive
ten per cent more water than the
Court allows them seems sufficient to
eliminate trouble of any consequence