Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1919-07-19
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| ful. Dut er1nStOn Will nave Its North
and south outlets without any further
detriments. The Lucky Boy grade is
always bad The other way you can
have an all winter road
| think. gentlemen, that is simply
synopsis, that is rough outline of
what the Highway Department is up
against. in one sense Of the word and
what our plans are. We submit them
to you. We think they are good.
We had in mind that by the first of
| July most of our projects--contracts
should be let lforthem, and the entire
one million and half dollars for road
work be completed before snow flies
but it don't look good now We may
get around it. Time is getting short
We may not be able to make it
Mr. Vest would like to ask you
the status of the road south to Wilson
at the present time. Where is thata
matter ow in the hand of localsp cop
| Mr.. Alexander: That is simply what
you might call in statue quo, We
have had several surveys made. The
matter is now in the hands of local
people here to procure the necessary
rights of way. Until that is done we
can't make any further movement.
Mr.. West: Who are the local peo-
pie? Is it now up to the County Com
missioerso
Mr. Alexander: don't know how
it is, / believe Mr.. Bertrand has
sort of comprised proposition to SUBJ
nit to the Highway Engineer on his
return
There is another thought comes to
Eme-the Lincoln Highway. Some
thing over year ago they told us
they had $4,000 first it was 80, to
turn over to the Highway Depart
ment for the improvement of the Fal.
Ion Sink. We didn't get hold of that
money. and while we made several
| efforts, by the time we got the Lin.
coin Highway it had been cut to
$4,000. then it was tied up. There was
so many ifs and ands we never did
get hold of the $4,000 They came
back at us. They said they had$l2O,.
600 to give us instead of 20. That
looked pretty good. We Immediately
got to work and thought we would
let no grass grow under our feet, to
get that Sl20.000 If we could get one
hundred and twenty from the Federal
Government which would make two
hundred and forty that would look
pretty good on that stretch of road.
We immediately got busy with the
people. We have tied up $500 of that
money. 1t is in the bank ait Carson
City, for use on a piece OF road in
White Pine County. In addition TO
that we have lined up $4,000 of tie
100000 for work near Fairview. &c
the additional sums of money, in On Del
that we would't become too Elusive
we directed MIR. Cottrell on his way
back from Washington to stop at De.
troit and get his hands, on the balance
OF that one hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars. He said II am on my
way to Detroit to get that hundred
and twenty thouand dollars" SO we
have hopes that by the time he gets
here he will have it, or at least tied
it up so we can get it.
Joe Wilson.
didn't come up here tonight to
make a speech. ! can tell you what
we have been doing since we formed
this Irrigation District.
You all remember that the election
was held the first OF April. and car
ried by a very large majority.
The l4th OF April we organized
Since that time we have annexed all
that portion lying South of the Dis
trict on the Eastern part near the
California line. 1t gives us an acer-
age of about 100000 acres. about 200,-
600 acres that can be cultivted, about
60,000acres OF waste land. AT the pre-
ent time about 10000 acres are under
cultivation, leaving about 100000 to be
irrigated.
Now, we have had our Engineer
working on the climate cost of AL
kali Lake. and on the 18th of this
month he is going to Twin Lakes on
the East fork to make an estimate of
the cost there.
When that is done we will then call
an election of the people to vote on
the bonds. which will be somewhere
between the 10Th and the first of Aug
ust but we have got to give notice in
the paper about four weeks before the
election comes off.
We hope all land owners will stand
up and vote for the bonds, because
you know we need the water At pre-
ent the people who thought they had
old rights have no water. After 1875
water rights are not worth anything
because there is no water
With the highway running thru Yer
ington, water storage on the East and