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

Shall we allow 1t to be killed
by the Spanish Springs develop
ment, or shall we fight for real
extension, lower costs to set
tiers, and a big successful pro-
ject? Fallon business leaders
express their ideas.
What shall be the future course of
the Newlands project? Have those
who have criticised us for opposing
the Spanish Springs scheme ever
given the matter thought, or are they
merely taking the propaganda for
that scheme for granted? 1t is true
that chambers of commerce, farm
bureaus and even governors have
endorsed the plan, ,sbut some of them
at least have done il without know
ing thing about 1t, without scin
tllla of a report to go on. Have You
seen a single engineering report Civ
ing the costs and endorsing the
scheme? Do you know that outside
engineers uniformly question the To-
cation of the reservoir and shrug
their shoulders when they hear that
the settler will be asked TO pay some
thing like S110 to s135 per acre?
We. ourselves, are quite willing tn
be judged by our statement and the
proof of time when we say that moth
ing more disastrous to this project
and the state could be proposed than
this ill-adyised Spanish Springs res
ervoir scheme.
Spanish Springs Scheme Stops
Project Development
This Spanish Springs reservoir
must be filled with Truckee water
by a long canal of only a capacity of
coo second feet On account of this
capacity and as the reservoir is not
a flood reservoir on the river itself,
but must be filled by canal, prac-
tically no flood water whatever can
be saved. The propagandists have
hammered IL into you that the flood
waters must be conserved and irriga-
ton in Nevada extended. and that is
just what this scheme does not do.
No flood waters are conserved. so
project development has already
been stopped here. If we are going
to extend this project, then flood
waters must not be allowed to go TO
waste as at present.
Spanish Springs Scheme Cuts Our
Project in Two
You ask then, is not the $4,000
acres under the scheme an extension
as told us in many meetings? II
most certainly is not That would
be the joke on all Of us. We were
to have 150,0 900 acres around Fallon
and 10000 acres on the high lands
nearby. The Spanish Springs pro
posal would cut US just In half Do
you want your efforts and your flu
ture invested IN a project half as
big? are you pleased to live In
community half as big and depend
en- roads supported Or half as many
people and also pay twice as much
In maintenance and operation eharg-
es? We are not and We don't think
YOU are.
Spanish Springs Scheme win Load
Us with Litigation
You may not know, as well as we
old timers do. the litigation that
Loyeloek has already been through,
and still faces. due to her location
at the lower end of the Humboldt
river We are In just the same posi-
tion at the lower end of the Carson
river. The Spanish Springs reservoir
would forever cut rs off of the True
kee river for IN the low years. when
needed. every drop Of the Truckee
would have To go to the Spanish
Springs project We would have to
Proposals are on foot 10 put reser-
voirs above us on the Carson. We
must spend money and fight them
Just as Loveloek has done and must
do, or else we will see our water go
Litigation does not look good to us
and we don't think it does TO YOU.
Can the Spanish Springs settler Pay
Over 500 Per Acre or VIII
We Pay for Him?
Secretary Work said the Spanish
Springs plan won's go through un-
less we vote part OF the funds That
sounds good, but suppose they go
ahead without any charge laid on us.
DO you say go ahead and let them
do as they please In that case? Let
us look into this matter II is esti-
mated that the charges viii be from
$110 TO $135 per acre for lands to
be settled under the Spanish Springs
reservoir system and many water
users are delinquent now on their
payments with the charges aggregat-
Ing only about fifty per cent of that
amount. II the Spanish Springs water
user fails on his water right charge
or o. e M charges. then who will
pay? You and I will pay for him
because he viii be in the Truckee-
Carson irrigation district and all OF
his payments will be guaranteed by
us. To put the matter In another
form, II would be the same as our
endorsing his note for from $40 to
$135 per acre. Now we do not care
to assume this obligation and per-
haps when you understand you will
not either. We think IL would be bet
ter to devise a cheaper scheme for
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