The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-12-22

the principal had to be paid And
the worst of 1t all was there was nc
market for crops.
Suppose that conditions generally
do become worse, SO that prices ca
down II will not then be beyond the
bounds OF probability that the owners
OF heavily mortgaged lands in Carson
valley will be unable to pay the
mortgages. In this connection. II is
well to remember that any mortgage
which Is now In force will have pri-
ority TO the reservoir bonds; other
wise the holders of the mortgages
would be deprived OF their property.
that is, the mortgage security. without
due process OF law Well, If those
mortgages are foreclosed, who will
pay the $75o.O00.O0 principal, the in
terest and the incidental expenses
called for by the Diamond Valley
scheme? Surely not the poor devils
who pay $4,000 an acre and upwards
for sagebrush land which will run
them heavily into debt before they
can produce crops. The burden will
inevitably fall upon the old land
holder with full water rights who Is
getting no benefit from the Diamond
Valley reservoir. Farms like the
Jacobsen, the Lampe. the Hussman,
the Henningsen. the Heise. the Heit-
man, the Lange, the Stodieck, the
Hellwinkel. the Springmeyer and
score of other places will have to
pay the fiddler' Will that be fair?
To digress a bit Let no one be-
lieve that all is milk and honey over
the Walker River project. There are
those who are becoming tired of
paying lawyers and engineers and
similar thorns in the sides OF hard
working farmers. Take Peter Heit-
man, who used to live In Carson VAL
ley. He tried to keep out OF the
district but could not. He had so
much water that the State Engineer
him to sell 100000 worth.
Yet this year he had to pay an
assessment of 10000 for water COM
missioner and another $4,000 for over
head expenses of the distrirt. His
farm is subject to the bond, and the
lime may come when he Will have to
pay part of that bond. With the
lien OF the bond upon his farm, 1t is
not as salable as II otherwise would
be- Take John Gallagher. He had
10 pay some $4,000 this year. am
old. Another man had to pay over
100000. A number of farmers are
ask some OF them; 1t
will do you good.
A press dispatch in the Sacramento
Bee, December 18th under Oroville
late line, says that ranchers Of the
Honenut Yuba Irrigation District
must pay recent assessment of SIS
per acre imposed on land in the dis
lrict.
This was the ruling handed down
to-day by Superior Judge II. d.
Gregory in the case of P. c. Dres-
cher and fifteen other property own
ers who objected to paying the levy.
Judge Gregory said that the assess
ment was voted and as result land
owners had obligated themselves to
meet the assessment
II is true that occasionally in Car
son Valley there is such a shortage
If water that farms with full water
rights do not get sufficient water for
4 second and third crop. II the
farmers would see to 1t that the
Hayburn tract farmers do not de-
Drive them OF water which belong
On old lands, there would never be
/ shortage on the old rights. In any
,yent. every farmer who owns stock
N the Alpine Land & Reservoir COM
Dany may safely rely upon getting
Ill the water he reasonably needs.
And now they talk about forcing him
o give up his good water rights, his
rood stock in Alpine Land & Reser-
,oir Company which he has held all
hese years and for which ne has
,aid so much, for the benefit of sage
,rush land. And what does he get IN
.eturn? He will get what the little
10Y shot at Dammit, say 1t is not
air. The farmer can better AFFORD
o have an occasio..ll short second
,rop or no third crop than he can
Afford to put his farm under the
,minous shadow of lien to the
amount of $75O,OO0.0o.
They talk about steady supply
,f water, about safety from f1oods'
about the increase In taxable prop
erty, about bigger banks and cream
cries and what not All well and
good II 1t can be brought about In
proper and legitimate manner. but
II is not fair to rob Peter to Pay
Paul. II is not fair to practically
mortgage all the old farms with
sound water rights for the benefit OF
owners of barren sagebrush land.
And this is not a proper time to be-
gin any irrigation scheme which In
wolves large expenditure of money
We should wait until conditions are