Forestry and Irrigation Volume . 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ... the waters of the Truckee River over into Carson Valley, where a storage reservoir with a capacity of 286,000 acre-feet was designed. Four and a half miles.below this reservoir site the combined waters of the Truckee Owing to the wise provisions of the Reclamation Act, the colonization period under the Truckee-Carson project will ditfer from that which has taken place in any community on our continent up to the present time. Whenever there has been a great immigration movement for any reason, a host of speculators has rushed in, skimmed the cream and departed. The man who takes a forty or eightyacre tract under this project must come to stay. He may not commute his entry after living a few months on the land, but must prepare the tract for cultivation, till the soil, paying his annual stipend of $2.60 per acre for ten years before title passes from the Scene in Mason Valley, near Wabuska, Nevada, showing character of land that is to be irri gated. and Carson Rivers are to be led out upon the plains in two canals, one on each side of the river. The north side canal will have a capacity of 400 cubic feet per second and will irrigate approximately 40,000 acres of land, and the south side canal. with a capacity of 1,500 cubic feet per second, will supply water to about 160,000 acres. It is a portion of these lands which were formally opened to the public on une I7, and before another season the first payment from 50,000 acres will be replaced in the original investment. government. The eagerness with which the land is even now acquired by practical farmers, and the favor in which the first experiment of the government to reclaim its arid lands is regarded, is apparent in the vicinity of Wadsworth and Hazen. The desert is already dotted with buildings of prospe...