The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1923-03-21
Cooperation
Is Necessary
In Construction
] T. Richardson Out
lines Preliminaries at
Spanish Springs

J. L. Richardson, project manager,
who has been in Denver for the past
ten days returned to this city Sat
urday. The trip to the Colorado city
was made in response to Telegram
urging him to attend a conference in
relation to the development of the
Spanish Springs reservoir and the in
cidentals that will lead up To the
completion of the project.
In speaking of the trip and the re-
suits he stated:
THE signing of the contract be-
tween the government and the Can
yon Power Company which released
the power site at Vista and clears the
way for the construction of the add
ition TO the Newlands project, is but
the forerunner of much preliminary
work that is necessary before actual
work starts.
In the first place the right-of-way
that will have to be established to-
gether with payment for inundated
lands is necessary before preliminar-
les toward actual construction be-
gins. IL was this in view that much
of the review was conducted Plans
for the completion of the power plant
at Lahontan dam, and the installa-
tion of the 7S-ineh conduit pipe that
is to be used In diyerting the water
from the reservoir to the turbines
was gone into and this work starts
Immediately. All of this work must
under the contract be completed In
side of the ten months after the
signing of the contract. This matter
was given consideration at the Den
yer meeting and detailed plans are
now being worked out for this re-
modelling and bettering of the plant.
"As for as the Spanish Springs res
ervoir is concerned IL can be stated
that it will have to be a cooperation
system 10 large extent if there Is to
be any immediate work in the way of
construction | mean by this that the
people most concerned In this devel-
opment should lend heir personal
assistance. The people of Reno,
Sparks and in fact, all along the line
are interested parties, and to them
the department and the people en-
ployed by the government to carry
out this big development program are
looking for assistance.
1t will be necessary to secure coun-
ty and city rights to carry the ditch
line to and from the resei voir. This
is a matter OF common good and 1t
will be up to the Reno people as well
as others to give US their help. The
mere fact that the government is go
ing to build this project does not in
dicate that the department will pay
unreasonable prices for land that Is
not earning substantial returns on
present money invested. A board OF
appraisement will have to be named
and some of the condemned ground
will have to be settled on through
such valuations. II is the small diff
iculties that will have to be swept
aside before actual construction can
be started.
white all of us are anxious to
start something in the way of con
struction IL is not going to be
matter of haste. as that costs nnnec-
essary money. Now that the contract
is signed the government like any
other business house is figuring on
saving as much for actual construc-
tion as is possible. As | first stated
the actual construction on the res
ervoir and the canals leading In and
out depend much on the progress
made in securing rights for such pur-
poses"
When asked how much money was
available for the preliminary, Mr.
Richardson stated that II was approx
imately 100000 with a possibility
of more. that Is one of the features
OF the Denver meeting, and the de
partment men are hoping to get more
money than was first believed pos
sible. The more money the quicker
the results, is his theory,