The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-06-30
NOTICE
THE GREATER HUMBOLDT COR
PORATION

THE GREATER HUMBOLDT COR
PORATION
Nevada Bureau of Industry, Agricul
ture and Irrigation, Office of the
Commissioner, Carson City, Neva-
da, June 30, 1914.
The Greater Humboldt Corporation,
Winnemucea, Nevada.
Sir: The attention of this Commits
sion, within the past few days, has
been called to certain advertisements
of The Greater Humboldt Corporation
appearing in the Silver State, Of June
%, 1914, and on certain prior dates.
The advertised statement that:
1.-THE Greater Humboldt Corporation
and its plans have been approved by
Governor Tasker l.. Oddie, Commits
sioner Chas. Norcross and General G.
l.. Deady, of the Commission Of In
dustry, Agriculture and Irrigation, -
is unequivocally false.
The statement, in effect, in such
advertisements that The Greater
Humboldt Corporation is a Carey Act
enterprise and proceeding under the
Carey Act statute of this state, is un-
true.
The statement that The Greater
Humboldt Corporation has Legal
asets, under decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States (whatever
that may mean): water rights appli-
cations valued at $4,000, ,000.00,' is
a gross exaggeration, if it purports to
represent the immediate or probable
value of the several applications to
appropriate the unappropriated wa
ters of the Humboldt river and its
tributaries, as the status of the same
appears in the office of the State En-
gineer.
The statement of enormous profits
of Carey Act enterprises in other
states, contained in such. advertise
ment, is controverted by the fact that
on April 9th, last, there met at Dem
yer, at invitation of the Secretary of
the Interior, the western governors
State Land Boards for a conference
with the department officials to con-
slider, primarily, the disastrous finan-
cial condition of the majority of
Carey Act reclamation enterprises.
The Greater Humboldt Corporation,
to date, not being an applicant for a
single acre of Carey Act land in this
state, has so kept without the opera
tions of the Nevada statute, under
Authority of which this Commission
exercises control over the statements
made in advertisements and promo
tion literature for the sale Of stock
and to secure settlers.
TAKE NOTICE: That before The
Greater Humboldt Corporation will be
granted any such application, that,
aside from the satisfactory determi-
nation Of the validity and suflieiency
of its water-right applications, it will
have to appear before this Commission
with = complete showing Of its cor
lporate affairs and transactions; purge
itself Of all charges of misrepresen
tation and fraud, and either submit
to such reorganization and elimina
tions from its management as thi
Commission may require to insure IL
success and proper conduct as quasi
public enterprise, or establish to the
satisfaction of this Commission that
its existing organization, management
and plans are trustworthy and sound.
This statement ordered to be mail
ed to the secretary of said corpora
Ition and given to the press.
IC0MMISSTON OF INDUSTRY, AG-
RICULTURE 4 IRRIGATION
BY G. A. NORCROSS, Commissioner.
G. l.. DEADY,
State Register Of Lands Under the
| Carey Act.
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