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Show BIG THING FOR NEVADA. A Great Irrigation Canal to Water 75,000 Acres of Land. Rkxo, Nev., Aprilj 8. The proposed big irrigation canal is calculated to make a new state of Nevada. Hon. Frank C. Newlands and others are at the head of the project. It is proposed to take water from the Truckee river in Nevada county and to carry it a maximum distance of sixty miles, irrigating 75,000 acres of land in Lemrnou, Long, Piosser, Spanish and other sagebrush valleys. val-leys. The promoters already own ample reservoir sites and water rights and it is calculated cal-culated that $1,000,000 will build the canal, which is to be twenty feet wide and four feet deep, carrying 210,000 inches of water. |