The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1914-01-23
Government Engineers Make Favor
able Report and Land Owners
Display Willingness Of Co-operat-
ing With the Government.

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Ii oeing our present purpose to
proceed with the organization of an
irrigation district under the laws of
the State of Nevada, we hereby
petition the Secretary to advise us
as to whether this form of associa-
tion will be acceptable to him as
practicable means of carrying on
the desirable business relations. If
some other form of organization is
regarded as preferable, we ask for
further consultation and instruction
with the Department.
Further Resolved, that there be-
ing good reason to believe that the
suserior quality of the lands herein
proposed for Reclamation, with the
known availability of the water sup
ply therefor, makes it most desir
able to substitute these lands for an
equivalent area of lauds which are
proposed fer reclamation under the
Truckee-Carson Project, we there
fore recommend that such formal
substitution be made, and that we
be Informed by the Secretary what
disposition he is prepared to make
in the premises.
Particularly we desire information
as to whether. in the event of this
community undertaking to bear its
due proportion of the cost, the Sec
rotary will undertake, on his part,
to cooperate with the District to
extent of alloting from the .recla-
nation fund, the balance necessary
to complete the work, such allot-
ment to be secured by the usual re-
quirements covering new lands un-
der the project.
/ Resolved, that the people of the
/ Upper Carson Valley propose to
organize an Irrigation District un-
der the laws of the State of Nevada,
to cooperate with the United States
in reclaiming a large body of arid
land in the Carson Valley in Doug
las county; that the Reclamation
Act does not adequately provide for
such cooperation; that the Senators
and Representatives of Nevada in
Congress be urged to further the
passage of such amendment to the
Reclamation Act at this session of
Congress, as will enable the Recla-
nation Service to fully cooperate
with the State of Nevada. State
Districts. associations or other
bodies organized for the purpose of
reclaiming arid lands, and incidental
work.
The people of this Valley believe
that the real interest of the entire
people of the United States, as well
as those residing in this State. will
be greatly furthered by such co.
operation, as the natural resources
in land, water and other property
rights can be more effectively cor
related and utilized thereby.
Resolved, that the people of our
upper Carson Valley in Douglas
county, Nevada, desire to endorse
and hereby endorse the recommend
alton of the Honorable Franklin X.
Lane, Secretary of the Interior,
that Congress authorize greatly en-
larged expenditures by the Recla-
nation Service for the extension of
the reclamation of arid Hands; and
that they hereby urge the Senators
and Representative of the State in
Congress to advocate and support
the said proposal to their utmost
power.
Whereas, experience of farmers
under the various projects of the
i u. S. Reclamation Service has
demonstrated that the payment of
water right construction charges
from the produce of the soil within
a period of ten years is practically
impossible in the great majority of
cases,
Therefore, be it Resolved, that it
is the sense of this meeting that an
intermission period of four or five
years, after the first payment made
at the time of entry to insure good