The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-03-05
obvious fact that this reservoir would
not provide flood storage.
Truclxea Canal Inadeuuafp


not provide flood storage.
Truckee Canal Inadequate
little 500 second foot canal ex-
tending to 1t far out in the hille
could not convey 10000 nor 5000
nor even / 900 second feet of flood
waters, but it could and would suck
up the normal 500 second feet of
water that flows in the Truckee river
more than three-fourths of the tiIa ;.
And when it does this the Truckee
canal will be dry, and when the pro-
posed Spanish Springs lands are be-
| ing served and when our $4,000 acres
are tryig to get 800, 900 acre feet
out of a Carson river runoff of 180.-
600 acre feet, then our Lahontan
reservoir would soon be dry and our
Lahontan power plant would have to
be turned into a steam turbine IL 1t
we're to furnish power.
should Search for Best Reservoir Site
Nor have we assumed 1t to be the
| fact that there are other and better
| reservoir sites on the Trnckee river
than that at Spanish Springs. We
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whether or not this is true. To the
best of our knowledge, the last auth
oritative statement upon this point
emanating from the interior depart
ment was made some four or five
years ago and was to the effect that
at that time the Truckee river canyon
had not been sufficiently explored to
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was or was not available above Reno.
| why this mania TO construct the
| Spanish Springs reservoir without
first investigating the possibility of
upstream storage and without even
first securing reliable report as to
the advantages for disadvantages) of
the reservoir itself?
Statements Stand Unrefuted
Mr.. Latin has asked us to submit
proof of our statements. Why, Mr.
| Editor. the data is in the hands of
the irrigation district board and the
bureau of reclamation. Do you not
suppose that II we we're wrong that
we would have been blow to pieces
with 1t two weeks ago? We have
challenged successfully contradiction
and have even offered $50 rewards
for data showing our contentious TO
be wrong. No one has put in claim
| for reward as yet and no one has
endeavored TO show that we were
wrong i'm a single assertion. But
what has happened?
We started this discussion in a
friendly way with the Reno Gazette.
and we believe il was being conduct
ed upon a courteous and gentlemanly
plane, but when our article appeared
in last weeks Standard apparently
the local reclamation chief and the
engineer politician editor of the Jour
nal could contain themselves no
longer.
Journal Editorial Tactics Cheap
Something had to be done and, not
having any way to meet our asser-
tions. the Journal ON its editorial
page descended to the cheap politi-
clans level and blazoned forth a
garbled pedigree of those who were
taking issue with the Gazette. They
deliberately sought to throw a dense
screen OF smoke over the issues be-
| ing discussed. BY childish and un-
truthful thrusts at us, they endeav-
ored to divert attention from the
question itself. We may be all they
say and worse. but what has that to
do with the feasibility of the Spanish
Springs reservoir?
The real matters involved the
Journal left severely alone. Here is
sample of their stuff" In a
statement bristling with inaccuracies
and garbled misstatements of fact
they (meaning us) seek to befuddle
the minds OF their neighbors and to
/ knock over and dispose of careful
estimates. the fruits of experience
and the records of actual accomp-
! lishments on the project itself" And
again: There are data TO very con-
clusively prove to anyone who wants
to go into 1t that large storage at the
headwaters of the Truckee river is
now impractieable because of the
federal decree establishing the So
called 'Floriston Rate that investi-
CATION, even before these days of
high costs, resulted in the rejection
of the plan to store between Floris-
/ ton and Tahoe and that the whole
question of storage other than that
/ proposed in Spanish Springs has been
critically examined and decided by
competent men In favor of that stor-
age"
Statements Not Shown Inaccurate
Now, Mr.. Editor, one would think
that, knowing so much about the
matter, the editorial writer Cor writ
ers) would have pointed out wherein
our statements were inaccurate or
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