The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-12-23
New Storage
Sites Planned
King Reservoir and Spanish Springs
Investigations Well
Under Way


Two noteworthy Investigations
are now being made near Reno with
a view to enlarging the Newlands
project. One investigation Is con-
sidering all the possibilities of the
Spanish Springs valley to the north
east of Reno and the other deals
with what is called the King reser-
voir. in the Holcomb and Ramelli
holdings, several miles to the south
east of Reno, says the Reno Jour-
nal
Figures given out yesterday by
Fred Bonstedt, in charge of the
Reno office, show that the Spanish
Springs reservoir, with depth of
los feet of water back of the dam,
will give capacity of 100000 acre
feet. The King reservoir, with IS
feet of water back of the dam, will
give a capacity of about 100000
acre feet
Two surveys have been made for
feeder canals to the Spanish Springs
reservoir from the Truckee river
One route Is practically the Orr
ditch through the resident part of
Reno. The second route is higher
up to the north to avoid the city.
Two surveys have also been made
for the King reservoir. One is what
Is known as the Lake ditch. The
second survey is a new line taken
out of the river at a lower elevation,
practically diverting from the
Truckee at the Reno Power, Light
and Water company's weir. This
lower line Is about four miles short
er and probably will figure the
cheaper.
A diamond drill crew has just
completed working at the SpaniA
Springs dam site and has just be-
gun boring holes at the King reser-
voir site. The results at Spanish |
Springs were favorable for an earth
dam. A. P. Davis, director of the
reclamation service, was here three
months ago and ordered this invest
igation. It is expected to close field
surveys during the present month.
The lower route to Spanish
Springs is S.4 miles long from the
Truckee river. The other line is /
approximately IL miles long It /
passes north of the cemetery and |
university. 1t leaves the river at |
about three miles west of the city. |
practically at the old Sparks ranch. |
The Spanish Springs lake as
planned will be nearly 10 miles long
and from two to four miles wide. It
will flood $500 acres, or nearly 15
sections. OF this there are 100
acres of land irrigated at present by
the Orr ditch or it's extensionsI The
King reservoir will be in the shape
of lake nearly circular and having
a diameter of about four miles. 1t
will flood 5000 acres, or nearly
eight sections. The capacity of the
Spanish Springs dam is figured at
100000 cubic yards and of the
King dam at 100000 cubic yards. !,
With a depth of los feet at the /
former dam, the length of the crest |
of the dam will be 2,935 feet; at I
the latter with a depth of So feet /
thS SiSoe Will NC 1,ooO lttt iOlS.
The report on the Investigations |
will be submitted to. board of en-
gineers and from them it will go to
the director, who has the final de-
cision in the matter. Fred Bon
stedt reports to the project mana
ger, John F. Richardson of Fallon,
and he in turn reports to Frank r.
chief engineer at Dem
yer.
The completion of either of these
new projects would prove of tre-
mendous practical value to the agri-
and livestock interests of
this section of Nevada and would
result in opening up hundreds of
acres of land to intensive produc-
tion.