Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-01-01
GOVERNMENT HARD
0NnlWATERs USERS

| Service for construction and opera
ton and maintenance. charges must
be remitted direct to the Denver. office
in accordance with General Order o8
Bills will be rendered direct to the
water users from the Denver offict
and the remittance. must be made ir
currency. postoffice money order OF
bank draft.
This will necessarily be source O.
inconvenience. and a little more ex-
pense to the water users. 1t woulo
be much easier for the water user.
to be able to deal direct with the loca
headquarters, as in the past, and it ap-
pears to this paper that the interest
and convenience of the water users is
the first thing to be considered in ad.
ministering reclamation affairs.
II subject to cancellation, the Law
forbids the delivery of water until tn.
full'payment has been made. Then in
case the water user cannot raise thl
money until about the time his crop:
are hard pressed for water, he mus,
still wait until the money goes to Den.
yer and the notice of its paymen
sent back to Failon before the loca
officials would be permitted TO turI
on the water. But this is not all.
there are any penalties and these are
overlooked, or tlfe farmer does nos
figure out the per cent penalty to a
cent, as the governments does, the en-.
tire rmittance must be sent back to the
farmer to make good the trifling de.
hciency before he coud be giver
.credit-meantime his crops might be
burned up for want of water that Is
running>to waste.
But it does not stop here. Aftei
the first of January, when new set
tier comes in and makes application
for homestead entry, he will be in
formed at Reclamation headquarter.
that they cannot accept his money
for the first water payment OF $3 pc,
acre. but that il must be sent to Der
ver neither can they issue TO him
a certificate to accompany his home
stead application TO the Carson Land
Office. until they have received motto,
from Denver that he has made the
payment there. Under present regu
lations, his homestead application
must be accompanied by the certificate
that the water payment has been made
before it can be accepted at Carson
City. Therefore, il would appear that
the prospective settler must wait until
lis money can be sent To Denver and
the order comes back to the local
headquarters before tne certificate can
be is3ued. Then he may send his APP
plicaiion to Carson City, and in the
course of few days will receive no
,ice OF the acceptance or rejection OF
his entry.
There will also be 4 degree of un
certainty in the matter of relinquish.
ments, and this probably will be 81
source OF great inconvenicnc to The
homesteader who desires to sell, for
the respective buyer is likely to get
out of the notion before all of the de
sired information can be secured from
the Denver office
The question very naturally arises
why cannot these matters be attended
to here in Fallon? If it, is question
of economy there are most assuredly
other changes that could be made will
which the water users has nothing tc
do personally. In fact. aside from tn,
distribution of water, the only direct
dealings the farmers have with the
service is along the very lines that has
been sent away beyond the Rocky
mountains to Denver. In the future
when water user steps into the loca
reclamation Office to straighten ou,
some tangle. he must be informed
that it will be necessary for him to
correspond with the Denver Office
while the same affair could no, doubt
be settled with one-tenth of the
trouble by short conversation witt
the local officials. Correspondence al
best requires great deal of time ant
many times is anything but satisfac'
tory in business dealings.
The order that has been made ap-
plies to all reclamation projects
Possibly some other order will be
made that will eliminate delay in mat
ters of fling, such as permitting re-
mittnccs direct to Carson, as formerly
but so far as the water users are con-
cerned, we believe the new plan viii
be found source of great inconven
ienc, and will meet with a vigorous
protest at their hands. especially when
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