The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1920-01-21
DELIBERATE fALSERl obs
| USED TO DEFEAT GOVERNMENT
Lake Tahoe Subject by One Of the
California Crowd Who Oppose
Projects Development

Projects Development
Owners of Lake Tahoe rights are
apparently not content with the re-
cent ruling of Attorney eneral Pal
mer in which the opinion is give
that the reclamation service of the
government HIS no legal standing in
the age-long controversy and arc
now carrying on a campaign of Cali
fornia viewpoint as assiduously as
non-patriots carried on the German
propaganda of a short time back
From the first day of opposition to
the plan of the reclamation service
to appropriate the surplus waters of
the Tahoe watershed flor use within
the Newlands project misrepros snta-
tion has been the leading character
istic of the California protest and it
time that Director A. p. Davis, of the
service, has been replied to by Hen
ry F. Droste, of the Californie
crowd, in a manner altogether in
keeping with former piffie. Mr.
Davis letter and the reply from Mr.
Droste are published below for the
sole purpose of making plain the
method adopted by the opponents of
the Lake Tahoe plan in order that
highly beneficial plan shall b. de-
feated. The sad commentary upon
the entire situation mas to do with
the fact that there is counted within
he congressional personnel men who
champion such nonsense. Califor-
MIA congressman are eleced to serve
the people of the United States and
their oath dictates the fulfillment OF
this broad principle, yet notwith-
standing they have combined with an
inordinately selfish constituency to
forbid a logical plan for the benefic-
ial appropriation of the surplus wa
ters of a watershed that unfortun-
ately occupies an interstate geo
graphical location.
The two letters which follow con-
trast as fact and fancy and to Mr..
Davis infinite credit it must be said
that he deals with fact.
Department of the Interior
United States Reclamation Service
Washington, ID. c.
December 16, 1919.
Mr.. Henry F. Droste,
SAC Mills Building,
San Francisco. California.
My dear Mr.. Droste:
Hon. L. c. Dyer has sent me your
letter of December 6 and requested
me to send you information regard
ing the subjects mentioned in your
letter. This shows that you have
been misinformed regarding certain
actions and plans of the Reclamation
Service. The statements and sugges-
tions in your letter along those lines
are very much in error. as indicated
below.
II understand that the U. S.
Reclamation Service is request
ing an appropriation of $6,-
100000 for the Newlands pro-
ject"
This is incorrect. The appropria-
ton estimates submitted for the
Reclamation Service include ST.
$4,000 for the Newlands project
These figures with the supporting de-
tails are published in the regular
Book of Estimates, House Document
No. All, 66th Congress, Second Ses-
sion, at pages 622 and 642. Congress
gives us no supply of these docu-
ments for distribution and they are
voluminous and expensive. but |
presume can be referred to in con-
venient libraries.
Lake Tahoe is the source of
water supply for the project, aud
from all indications the Recla-
nation Service intend to injure
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