The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-02-13

him If we are to endorse his note
Spanish Springs Scheme Destroys
Our Power
We now have power available from
Lahontan Spanish Springs would
wipe that out except for some fluc.
tuating amounts when the Lahontau
reservoir was nearly full. When
nearly empty. we would be entirely
wiped out and buying power most
of the time from the power company
at the power company's own rates
We are just beginning to see the
advantage of light and power on ey-
cry farm and forming plans to Sc
cure the title and distribution of It.
but we must abandon it II the Span
ish Springs plan goes through, for
we cant afford 1t on power com
nany's rates. There is no doubt but
| If power was obtained at Spanish
Springs, 1t would have to be given
to replace that destroyed at Reno
Real flood storage, real extension OF
| the project will make some more
real power and cheap power for us
Power company rates don't look
good to us and we don't think they
do to you. Spanish Springs prac.
tically knocks out our power We
don't want to lose our power and we
don't think you do. either.
Something Better for fernley
and the Swingle Bench
Il fefc n, hot
best to stir up the Benehland water
users, but the Bench-land water users
had better do some thinking. They
chose TO back a foolish. utterly ex-
horbitant proposition because they
wanted more storage for insurance,
and at any price to them. In the
hopes-as they have a right to hope
that they would not have to pay
more than their contracts now call
for. The Bench-land water users had
TO back the scheme proposed because
they were not In a position to pro-
pose any other. But there are nearly
dozen reservoir sites in the noun
tains above Reno, any one of which
would serve the needs OF just these
people. Any one of them could
be put in in a year. where the Span
ish Springs plan will take four or
five years. Secretary Work says we
must vote funds for the Spanish
Springs scheme. Fernley and the
Swingle Bench can well look before
they leap. We will get none of the
water at Fallon but those that dc
are going TO pay great big round
price for it, Does the price and five
years look good to Fernley and the
Swingle Bench, or would they like
to look little further for something
little cheaper and quicker?
Why Is the Watershed Abandoned
To Others?
All kinds of flood reservoirs are
available above Reno. When wo
signed away our yester water rights,
we entered a contract with the Unit
ed States to furnish us water free
of charge" from the Carson and from
the Truckee river from reservoirs AT
Tahoe and on the headwaters of the
river as enumerated for a dozen
years in the Annual Reports of the
Reclamation Service. We made a
new contract and gave up the free
water" clause but the obligation for
the Truckee reservoirs remained.
We do not propose that these also
shall be defaulted on Our interests
and your interests demand that this
81 M In fc
iect completed as agreed upon. Why
this sinister abandonment of all
these sites to exploitation by others? ?
Who approves this? Let them speak
up. Why are we TO get none OF the
storage and power here available?
Are we to pay profits all our lives on
what is now to be stolen from u.s.
At the time that the famous tor
infamous) Ballinger contract pro-
posed TO relinquish to the Power In
terests all the balance OF the water
shed of the Truckee for a mythical
storage in Lake Tahoe, the Conserva-
tion Forces in the Department of Ag-
riculture reported on most. though
not all. of the power and storage
sites of the Truekee and showed the
enormous possibilities there, and the
Ballinger surrender was choked off.
Who is responsible now for trying to
put this surrender back into effect,
without even the mythical Tahoe
storage as compensation? Do Fern
ley and the Swingle Bench concur in
surrendering quick, cheap storage
here for expensive and far off stor-
age at Spanish Springs? VIII their
leaders continue to leal when the
water users find they have been load
ed with expensive water and hitched
to excessive power rates for life? In
the heart of power possibilities are
we to be deprived of 1t because of
its cost? DO you want to be led by
the nose into this thing or will you
demand printed reliable report dis.
cussing every possibility and stating
every cost to be incurred? Do you
want the Senate Fact Finding Com
mission to act, or do you want It to
Just rubber stamp the present scheme