The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-08-23
SUGGESTS BOOST
MIGHT HELP SOME
Writer Declares That Stories of
Calamity Howlers Can Do No
Good and Should Not Be
Repeated Unless Fact
By WILLIAM E. MOORE

By WILLIAM E. MOORE
1t is said that spirits sometimes
indicate their presence by knocks.
Is that the kind of a community
spirit that exists in Winnemueca?
The Grass Valley irrigation, prof.
ect when completed will bring more
direct benefit, prosperity, growth
and population to Winnemucca and
Humboldt county than any event or
development in the past history of
this district.
Every citizen should be proud of
this project and put every ounce Of
enthusiasm back of it to make it a
big success and to tell friends and
acquaintance everywhere of the
great future in store for Winnie
mucca.
Are Winnemucca citizens doing
this or are they saying:
1.-THE Grass Valley irrigation
project will be a great thing for
Winnemucca If it is ever built
1t is going to cost a lot of money
to build it and money is awful tight
right now. They may be able to
raise the money, but doubt it."
"The Grass Valley irrigation prof.
ect may help Winnemucca some,
BUT look at Fallon. They have an
irrigation project over there and it
never helped that town any,"
"They may be able to dig that
Grass Valley ditch, BUT they'll
never be able to bring water as far
as Winnemucca in it. 1t will all
soak into the sand long before it
gets here. They'll 60 broke if they
try it. Look at the old French
canal. They tried it and went
broke. Never got any water be-
yond Winnemucca either"
1.-The company won't take the risk
of going to the expense of digging
that Grass Valley ditch until they
have enough contracts signed up
with land owners to buy all the
water they can furnish" ~
Local people are taking up land
in Grass Valley just as a specula-
tion and they won't sign any con-
tracts to buy water. There are
only a few farms in the valley.
The Southern Pacific Company owns
all the rest of the land out there
and has taken it off the market and
won't sell any of it to anyone, so
there won't be enough people to
sign up contracts to make it worth
while to dig the ditch"
"They may dig that Grass Valley
irrigation ditch, BUT it won't help
Winnemucca any. 1t won't bring
any more people to Winnemucca be-
cause they can't run a farm out in
the valley and live in town."
at is all off with the irrigation
ditch now. They won't start work
on it until these lawsuits about the
water rights have been decided.
They don't come up for hearing
until this winter, so there won't be
any work done on the irrigation
project this year, if ever"
If any of your friends have been
telling you these things you may be
able to bring a little ray of sun
shine into the gloom with which
they have been surrounded by tell
ing them that:
All the money needed to con-
struct the ditch and dam was as
sured before the permit to build
them was granted by the state.
Since the Fallon irrigation project
was started the population of
Churchill county has grown from
$500 to 1850. The population of
Fallon has grown from TAO to 1850
during the same period. Irrigation
did it.
With the same volume of water
that will be poured into the Grass
Valley ditch from the diversion dam
above Golconda there will be no
trouble in getting water to Grass
Valley. When the old French canal
was operating there was only a
small volume of water taken from
| the river.
1t is not necessary to sign up con-
tracts to supply water to land own
ers before starting the ditch be-
,ause enough money to complete the
| project was assured before it was