| Show Senator Newlands and Irrigation ion l r pf 4 r b t tk k r ar arY r I I Y j jt jf t f ti o I ts ter I ti II I l 9 li 1 II 71 JI t rn t i I r lP I t 1 t t 1 J SENATOR FRAnCIE 0 NEWLANDS Of ot Known as RII the Father r of ot the tho irrigation IlIon I Law nw Now In lII rut fill Operation 0 a 1 for ten tell r years n a member of ot r from the State of Nevada and now n a member mcm er of the tho States been een active for many mall years jom in the tho promotion of western inter interests interests interests ests and in tho the agitation of or both tho time silver null irrigation irl questions In 1800 lS O realizing that tho time development t of ot tho the state had hall up to that time tim been beon of interests h he a l development mining only started a I movement for or tho ho reclamation of or the tho arid lands of 01 the state insisting upon it that Nevada could never reach her full proportions until she sho supplemented the tho mining development by bj tho time development of or agriculture ture Lure commerce and general industries With n a view to giving ving tho the people of tho the state accurate information regarding ill irrigation pM ties tics he ho employed engineers the chief of whom l L JJ It If Taylor is non supervising engineer in charge of ot the tho U TJ S reclamation service sent out surveying parties and secured exhaustive reports of the tho storage fact facil facilities Hies and and reclamation projects of tho mho four lending rivers of tho the state slate the Carson Walker and Humbolt II rivers Ho TIo published th the result of these investigations in 1802 1898 in a 11 printed report accompanied ll lluy t uy y maps and which was circulated throughout the state He lie also wherever practicable secured tho the title to the reservoir site with aview a aview I view to preventing them from being held heM for speculative purposes j H II Hearly lie early Garly announced that his purpose In entering catering upon and pursuing this thu work vork simply to aid nid public action either cither upon tho part of the state government or upon tho time part of county governments or of or districts to io be organized in tho time various valleys Alloys of the time state THE NATIONAL IRRIGATION LAW Iu W The Time hard times resulting from tho the panic of ot 1803 1503 prevented tho the taking up amp of or an of or those these enterprises in tho the rummer monner hoped for So Mr 1 paving having ha ng become n a 1 member of or Congress turned his hi at attention attention attention to the question of national irrigation He lie was one of the or organizers organizers organizers of or tho the National Irrigation Congress and Wi tas 18 prominent in ill the work of education anti nud which hid it conducted Ho Ile sought bt upon every occasion when the subject could be e introduced to it in the homo moue of representatives feeling assured that no to not irrigation gation galion measure could be passed until the tho representatives of or the Ih ens i i cm ern southern and states wore were fully educated d upon tho the subject After u n 1 considerable period ler of education both national con conventions conventions in declared for national irrigation and imme lut lv afterwards after arter afterwards wards Senator Newland framed a general measure which suh ly I became a kw law and an is h generally known as ns the Newlands net act This bill hill provided that nil tho proceeds of the sales of or public laud lands in thirteen states and three territories should ho he put into at t special al nl fund in time the treasury of ot the tIle United States to be called the olion Fund Tho rho bill then them provided that the thc secretary of the interior should make ko investigation and an surveys and wherever he found mi un irrigation irrigation irrigation gation project practicable ho should hlo tho the power to uc the iho work provided time the moneys necessary wore ere then in the treasury AS TO 10 COST COSI OF Ob Till lIm PH OJ BOTS It also gave him the power to fix fIt the cost of o each project upon the lands reclaimed by the sale of water rights payable in ten tell equal annual instalment without interest It provided also that ho lie should divide time the laud land reclaimed into small tracts ranging from rem 10 to to WI acres the tIle unit of oI entry to bo be varied in the time acreage accord ns to iu its ability to tf support rapport a family It also provided that the government could sell water WItter rights for lor lands in private pl nto ownership but t that at no na i gale of a right should be made matte to any one ono person for fOl more mare than GO 60 acres acre the purpose being not only i lo to prevent monopoly I the ht pub lie li lands land but ut to break up t the tho existing monopoly by ranking makin it t to the t interest of or owners of largo large tracts cf c land to lo divide up And nit sell soli rJ their lands lauds into small amaH tracts tract to purchasers who could obtain water right from the government the re reclamation reo accumulated in Under this tins act over olor 0 has hili been fund t nn n and an it is confidently expected that within the n next be fX rr will twenty or thirty years from front to fi fits ended in ill tho the various irrigation projects of the tho west cat fit nt large projects have been inaugurated in ill different states I inaugurated was Ial that UIRt in Nevada which whdeh the union anion o n r If f tho Va Vat ri ft tern t ra of ot the and find Carson Cargon rivers in time the great ter from IrOD which water will w ill be drawn drat vu 1 and ancI conducted by cO nals over overter O fr i about acres in Churchill county Other Othor projects project aro n nr bung h b ing IIi o othe by hy the United States geological 1 survey on other rivers river the state stale Senator in hi CJ as with the time irrigation co c I II I I of ol the Nevada senate and drew up a n tat state i bill LilI which is intended l to bring nil the time state authorities into iHlo Co cn IV pt ra I r ra a lion tion with the federal authorities in I n tho time work fork of irrigation m in mIltis 11 a Iltis 3 bill biU was ices characterized by hy President Roosevelt Roosavelt upon Iu hu his ref ree cat visit isit to Nevada ns na a n model of ot legislation legi for lor other stales |
