The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1918-03-20
FINAL STEPS TAKEN FOR
ORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT
Petition Will be Filed With COmmis.
sioners at April Meeting and
Election Held In May

Judge l.. N. French came down
from Reno last Friday on legal bus
mess connected with the organiza.
tion of the proposed irrigation dis.
trict under the State law. Judge
French has had charge of the pre-
pairing of the petition to the Board
of Commissioners which will be
filed together with a bond to guar
antee payment of all costs in the
event that district is not organized
The law provides that such petit
ton can only be filed at a regular
meeting of the Board of Commits
sioners, which in this case postpones
its consideration until April 5th, on
which date the Board will check up
the petition to determine whether a
sufficient proportion of the acreage
has been signed up to comply with
the provisions of the law. If found
correct, the Board will thereupon
call a special election of the proper
ty owners to vote on the question of
organization and election of officers.
The election will be called at the
May meeting of the Board. prior to
which the boundaries of the pro-
posed district will be published in
accordance with law.
AS the list of petitioners has al
ready been carefully checked up and
canvassed, there is no question but
that sufficient acreage has been
secured to insure the calling of the
eelction and scarcely less doubt that
it will receive practically a unani-
nous vote of the landowners of the
project, as 1t should.
Notwithstanding the campaign of
education which has been carried on
for the past year, there still exists
an impression among a considerable
number that the vote will be direct
ly upon the question of drainage or
no drainage. This is far from the
facts. The question will be strictly
upon organization or no organiza-
tion of the water users of the dis
trict and the election of a Board of
directors if the organization is per-
fected. 1t should be borne in mind
that the question of drainage as well
as all other questions affecting the
project are matters to be considered
after the organization. And further,
that no proposition involving the ex-
penditure of money or providing for
a bond issue can be made without a
majority vote of the landowners
Upon all questions involving the con-
troll of the organization, the election
of its officers, etc, each owner has
but one vote. But upon all ques-
tions involving taxation, each shall
have one vote for each dollar that
he may be called upon to pay under
the proposed tax.
While there is no doubt but that
the question of drainage is the para
mount issue in this valley at this
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of almost equal Importance to the
successful working out of the prob
lens confronting the settlers on the
project and which cannot now be
considered or adequately presented
due to the fact that there exists no
legally constituted body which can
execute contracts or through which
the imperative needs of the district
can be made known.
The Standard confidently predicts
that the successful organization of
the water users will mark an era in
the Truckee-Carson project second
only to the turning on of the water
on the lands which has made pos
sible the hundreds of productive
farms that now dot this valley.