The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1922-11-24
Has Storage Capacity Of $4,000 Acre Feet Of
Water According to Report Of L. H.
Taylor, Civil Engineer

water. and that can only be cultivat-
ed through the installation of the
proposed storage system.
Two great canals will lead from
the Diamond Valley reservoir, one
serving the lands In what is known
as the West Fork district. the other
carrying water to East Fork district
to serve not only government lands.
but to homesteaders and privately
owned lands.
The II. r. Dangberg Land and
Livestock company. owns vast tract
Of sagebrush land In the East Fork
district that will be brought under
cultivation. This land will be OPEN
ed to homebuilders Immediately after
the project Is completed. and will
mean that hundred or more new
farms vii be brought into being In
Carson Valley. The same may be
said of the Dressler fiat where some
OF the best alfalfa land In Carson
Valley will be opened to settlement.
In fact, every acre of land In this
valley capable of producing crops.
will be brought under cultivation and
ultimately the present acreage OF
farm lands In this district will be
doubled adding over $1,000 900 worth
Of taxable property to the assessment
roll Of Douglas county. and practical
ly doubling the population of this
community.
Some years ago. when q storage
system was first suggested for Carson
Valley and to be financed by the
farmers themselves. rather than
through federal aid. considerable op.
position developed. but not sufficient
ly to dishearten the directors of the
Carson Valley Irrigation District, who
have kept plugging along. Then came
the Walker River Irrigation District
in Smith and Mason Valley and the
building of vast storage system
practically on the same basis of in
dividual cooperation as has been pro-
posed here. The success Of the
j Walker river project was the means
of removing much Of the objections
advanced against the local project
and today the farmers OF Carson VAL
ley stand solidly united In the great
undertaking of building an adequate
storage system, not only for supply
Ing the land already under cultiva-
tion. but Of sufficient capacity for
developing Carson Valley to its ut
most off farm possibilities by placing
water on every available acre and
making this one of the greatest agri-
cultural districts in the west.
That the holders of priority water
rights Will have no assessment to
pay In bringing about this great stor-
age system and that the greatest bur-
den of expense will fall upon the
lands yet to be cultivated Is re-
markable phase OF the plans being
worked out. Holders of food water
rights will be nominally assessed and
as the directors of the Carson Valley
Irrigation District state, assessment
will start at nothing and will not 20
higher than $14 per acre foot" an
! other remarkable feature as to low
cost when compared with many other
/ irrigation projects in the west. Again.
the maintenance charge against the
, project will be exceptionally low,
possibly not more than ten cents per
acre.
Prospective settlers cannot be in
! duced to settle In a district where the
cost OF storage is unreasonably high.
, where land is held at an exhorbitant
!, hsure, or where maintenance charges
are high. All those things have been
) seriously considered by the directors
} OF the Carson Valley Irrigation Dis
/ trict and when this new irrigation
| project in Carson Valley is completed
, most attractive inducements will be
( offered to settlers In the work Of
[ carving out farm In one of the
/ most productive agricultural valleys
In the West, and at the same time
a furnishing never-failing flow of
water for the lands already under
+, cultivation here.
! While the Carson Valley project Is
r practically an assured fact, the CO.
: operation of every person In Douglas
t county is needed to help the great
e undertaking along. No community
|, can get anywhere that is divided
s against itself and this being the
3. recognized and monumental undertak.
i ing OF all time, no one In Carson Val
j. ley, or no one who has the futur,
a OF Carson Valley at heart. can d,
N anything but place their shoulder
l. to the wheel Of progress and becom'
W one OF real supporters OF the com
" munity that stand for advancement.