The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-15
HAS 100000 ACRES
OF LANDS TO BE IRRIGATED!
BY A. II. KANAGA.

Inside of the next twenty-five years,
one million acres of land in Nevada
will be under irrigation in addition to
the small acreage that is now watered
by few systems.
The State of Idaho has over seventy
separate irrigation projects and Ne
vada has not ten. Yet, Nevada has
three times as much land capable of
irrigation as Idaho. Arizona with
one-fourth the acreage of your irriga-
BILE land has 80 per cent more acres
under cultivation than Nevada. This
condition is due to more activity in
irrigation among the people in Ari-
zona than can be found in Nevada.
California in proportion to its vast
acreage of land and big population
has received less money from the gov
ernment than Nevada and less than
any other Western state. This is due
to the fact that the California people
are Indifferent and will make a big
fight to get a small sum but are awed
in the presence of millions of dollars
California upto this time, has secured
but one little government project that
cost $4,000; and, including money
spent on this same plant at Orland
there has not been to exceed $675.0O0
spent in that State.
Arizona has received over $19,580,-
900 and Colorado more than $9,128,00O,
with Idaho up to $17,276,000 Even
New Mexico has managed to get from
Uncle Sam s9.370.000, while Nevada
with twice as much irrigable land as
in Idaho, has so far secured but So
S79, 1889, and in proportion to the
money received by most of the West
3rn states, Nevada has now due to her
| rom the vast government fund at
least $10,000.0 900. and it is not the fault
of your Senators or Congressman for
they did their share by getting the
reclamation laws passed and from
| that day to this, irrigation and getting
the money from Uncle Sam is up to
the people and if they don't fight and
fight hard. they will get nothing. The
Government forces at Washington are
never to blame for any state not get
ting a Government project as our
Uncle Sam will go into any state
where the people want them bad
enough to make an effective fight for
the garnered millions.
Nevada has 100000 acres than can
be irrigated by and with the use OF
pumping plants and they have 300 o0O
acres that can be irrigated by Uncle
Sam constructing gravity systems
but the problem at present in Nevada
is to install five to fifteen hundred
pumping plants and that ought to
sound like a small number to Ne
vada when l remind them that in the
immediate country around Lodi, Cali.
fornia, they have installed and now
have in operation more than 500
pumping systems. No later than las
week, visited some farmers in the
San Joaquin Valley who in the las
three months refused $3.50 per acre
for their land ranging from 800 up t.
1000 acres. This price offered wa'
due to a pumping project going to b'
installed there in the coming year
1918. Now these same farmers ha
been Offering their land for sale TO
ten years past at $50 per acre an'
never a bid or buyer in sight ant
three of these men fought the pump
= ing project for three years past AM
were voted in against their will. On
of the men to whom | was talking
? owned two sections, 1880 acres, ant
: his net profit over his old value @
? $50 per acre is $115. yet he kicke'
against irrigation. One of the me-
I owned I60 acres which he could neve
1 get $50 per acre for at any time L
: the last twenty years and this mar
z If he had sold his land at above price
D would have received $4,000, but he
: one of the men that worked for tw
I years for a pumping system and y
won out and he will get not dolla
less than 5000 per acre for his Ian
of $4,000 for 160 acres and even
T present and year before the proie'
is built, the country is full 1T ian
% buyers and these located aroun
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