The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-07-30

amount of fifty acre feet for 12.4
acres of land under irrigation rights
On the Washoe power ditch; also
fifty inches for Leonidas F. Johnson
to the seasonal amount of PSI acre
feet.
Water measuring 256 cubic feet
is permitted to be diverted by the
9ruekee River Power Company
through the Reno power ditch and
flume for delivery to the Reno hydro
electric power plant for delivery of
$50 cubic feet after a transportation
loss of two per cent with a priority
of March 81. 1891; also through this
flume the company may divert forty
seven cubic feet with a priority of
November /, 1909. and with an al
lowed transportation loss of two per
cent. 1t may also divert for the bene-
tit of Sarah Mcclure, James Murray,
William Murray and Sam Murray.
fifty inches of water through the
Reno ditch.
The Riverside mill is allowed seV-
anty cubic feet to be diverted through
the Riverside mill ditch with a prior
y of May, 1868.
Miscellaneous Allotments
a flow of twenty cubic feet per
second with a priority of April T.,
1887. rs allowed the state of Nevada
for the Nevada state hospital for
mental diseases, to be diverted
throngh the Sullivan and Kelly ditch.
The Electric Mining & Reduction
Company may divert through the re-
duction works ditch sixty cubic feet
9er second with a priority of August
2s, 1886.
The Wadsworth Light e Power
tompany is permitted to appropriate
hi ough it's ditch 31.3 cubic feet per
second, for delivery, after an allowed
transportation loss OF twenty per
aent, of twenty-five cubic feet to the
sompany's plant for the generation
f power, etc, with q priority OF
June %. 1897; and also for domestic
1ses il may divert "A cubic feet FOR
delivery to It's reservoir after a trans
5oltation loss of twenty per cent, of
3 5 cubic feet with priority of
1une 26, 1897.
Counter Claim Dismissed
A counter claim for $4,000 inter-
osed by the Wadsworth Light &
fower Company against the govern
ment. is dismissed in the decree with
ont prejudieing the rights of the
company to renew the claim or to
prosecute it in a separate action at
law.
When the company began operat-
ing its ditch in 1898, the decree sets
ont Wadsworth had a population of
22O0. In December, 1904, the rail-
road chops were removed and in
straigh tening the tracks the railroad
moved its main line away, reducing
the population to about one hundred
persons.
1t was charged by the company
that IN 1909 the United States closed
the gates at the Derby dam, depriv-
ing the company of its water and on
four occasions during that year, the
gates were kept closed untn large
head of water accumulated at the
dam when they were opened and the
water washed away the company's
dam ia the river below and also
damaged the company's ditch Gross
receipts fell, it was alleged, from ST.
$50 monthly to $500 per annum. In
disposing of the claim, the master
says:
THE provisions of state statutes
and rules OF practice in the state
courts concerning counter claims and
the trial of legal and equitable de
mands in the same action are not
regarded as applicable TO equip cases
Ia the federal courts"
In his proposed decree, the special
master provides for the appointment
OF a water master and an adequate
of assistants to carry out the
provisions of the decree.