The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1915-04-07
NEW PROJECT WATER CHARGES.
Public Notice Affecting Maintenance
And Operation Will Encourage
water Hogs"

put FORWARD Tile operation anu
maintenance charges that will gov
ern in this project throughout this
year, as evidenced by the public
notice reproduced herewith The
new rates will prove to be something
of a raise over those in effect in
previous years and naturally will
not be popular. Ninety cents for the
first acre foot and 10 cents for each
additional acre foot of water used
viii constitute a raise for every
water user no matter whether his
allotment is three acre feet for the
season, the minimum, or 10 acre
feet, the maximum in certain parts
of the project, for last years rate
was a fiat IS cents per acre for all
iirigable lands.
II the new rates are intended to
curb alleged water hogs they will
hardly prove efficacious, inasmuch as
the minimum is so cents for the first
acre foot and each additional foot
10 cents. Such an arrangement
would seem to fair observers to be
rather an encouragement TO use
water prodigally at nominal
charge after the basic rate has been
met which is compulsory
Department of the Interior, Wash
ington, February 26, 1915.
l. Under the terms of existing
public notices and orders, the oper-
alton and maintenance charges for
the irrigation season of 1914 for the
Truckee-carson Project, Nevada, be-
came due December /, 1914.
2. In pursuance of the provisions
of the Reclamation Act of June IT,
1902 S2 Stat, 1881, and acts amend
atory thereof and supplemental
thereto, and in particular the Recla-
nation Extension Act of August 13,
1914 (3S Stat, 6S6), Section of
which authorizes the Secretary of
the Interior to fix the due date for
operation and maintenance charges,
notice is hereby given that the oper-
ation and maintenance charge sor
the said project which under exist
ing public notice became due De-
cember /, 1914, is postponed to and
shall become due on March /, 1915,
lnd all operation and maintenance
charges hereafter made against
lands under the said project shall
become due on March / of each
year thereafter until further notice.
8. Hereafter no operation and
maintenance charge shall be collect
ed at the time water-right applica-
tion is filed. but the first payment
on account of operation and mainte-
nance shall become due on March l
of the year following the calendar
year in which same was made; pro-
vided, however, that if original
Homestead entry or original water
right application be filed after June
15 in any year. the first payment on
account of operation and mainte-
nance will not become due until
March l of the second calendar year
following the date of entry.
A. For the operation and mainte-
nance charge due March l, 1915, no
discount will be allowed for payment
prior to such date, but penalties as
prescribed by the Extension Act
will attach. AS to the operation and
maintenance charges due March 1,
1916, and thereafter, the discount
for payment made on or before the
due date and the penalties for fail
ure to make payment before the first
day of the third calendar month
after the due date will be applied as
provided in Sec. of the said Recla-
nation Extension Act The penal
ties and discounts herein provided
for attach fer all lands, whether ac-
ceptances of the Extension Act have
been filed or not.
5. The operation and maintenance
charges for the irrigation season of
1915, shall be due March /, 1916,
and each acre of irrigable land,
whether irrigated or not, shall be
charged with a minimum operation
and maintenance charge of so cents,
which will permit delivery of not
more than one acre foot per acre.
Should further quantities be needed
they will be furnished at the rate of
10 cents per acre foot.
6. The provisions of this public
notice shall apply to all lands sub
ject to public notice heretofore is
sued for the said project.
z. Except as hereinabove provid-
ed all the terms and provisions OF
existing public notices and orders for
the said project shall remain un-
changed.
A. A. JONES,
FIRST Assistant Secretary.