The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-01-30
Relief Sought From Evidence Filed By Rep
resentatives at Utah Convention

With twenty six reclamation pro
jects at the hearing before the fact
finding convention in Salt Lake City
and with the Newlapds project com
ing last to present its complaint and
recite its troubles, the gathering dis
persed last Saturday and the hear
ings or their results are now In the
hands of the committee who in turn
will pass then along to Secretary
Work, who in turn makes his rec
concentrations either to congress OF
in some instances can take immediate
and direct action personally.
Presents Its Complaint
II was not until Friday of last
week that the delegation sent from
this project presented its case to the
commission. 1t was shown by each
representative that this project was
not a failure and that considering
the treatment by the bureau that it
had progressed with the burdens at
taehed. Only five projects in the
United States exceeds this in pro
ductiyeness per acre and complete
denial was made to the statment OF
Miles Cannon following his twenty
four hour visit here in which he
stated:
''The Newlands project, IL seems
to me contains all the problems OF
modern irrigation and then some
heretofore uneneountered. The only
thing which appears to be lacking
are soil, water and people. The eli
mate seems all right"
In his statements to the commits
sion by Attorney Roy Stoddard he
rointed out:
"The development of many obsta-
cles imposed tremendous burdens on
the settlers of the project and upon
its administrators. Notwithstanding
the Newlands project is not failure
either In the economic or in the social
sense. 1t has added 5000 American
citizens of better than average typo
to the population of the state, and.
through their cooperation with the
government. ten or twelve million
dollars of wealth to the nation.
Rounded out to completion 1t is cap
able OF supporting a population of
from twenty TO thirty thousand souls,
and of repaying ultimately every dol
lar properly chargeable 10 It's actual
development"
History Given
C. c. Swingle, chairman of the
board of directors OF the Truckee-
Carson irrigation district, told the
history of the settlement of the
Swingle bench and reeounted the suf-
ferings of the settlers under the
Truckee canal. which he attributed
less to the prevailing agricultural
depression than to the fact that in
three successive years the bench
farmers had been forced to sit idly
by and see their crops wither because
Of lack of storage.
The construction of Spanish
Springs was. he said. a moral obliga-
tion of the government TO the settlers
who had gone in under the canal
with assurances of storage. the one
thing needed to make their land the
equal OF anything in the west
Calling attention to the productive
ity of his lands. he stated that in
spite of adverse conditions which cut
his crop practically in half. he clear
ed, this year. approximately $40 net
per acre on the areas sown to oanta-
loupes. and expressed the belief that
the proiect-lands are capable of grow
ing apples equal in quality to the
famous Yakima production.
Plan Explained
Mr.. Swingle explained, In response
to an inquiry from Governor Camp
hell as to the manner In which the
additional storage was to be paid
for. that, in his Judgment. the four
hnndred-odd thousand dollars shown
In the estimates as chargeable
against lands already settled under
the Truckee canal should be charged
TO the district as a whole rather than
to the lands in question for the rea-
son that these lands had been sold
with the same assurance of a water
right as that given TO the settlers
under Lahontan; that the Truckee
division settler had contributed to
the construction of Lahontan In their
water charges although they derived
no benefit from Il, and that they had
contributed in excess of $40 an acre
TO the drainage in bottom lands, even
in instances such as his own where
no drainage was required and no
direct benefits derived. He declared,
however, that this question was one
that should be left to the project
itself to settle in its own way and in
its own time.
Questioned by Commissioner Gar