Show TRUCKEE PROJECT I IS IN GOOD FORM Ready by ly Next Spring to Water Wate Acres of S Land HOMESTEADERS' HOMESTEADERS CHANCE En Tax Taylor lor Coin Commend Wl I lon Im of I III in I It to l l L L. II H. Taylor supervising engineer of th tIle the reclamation service selvlee In Nevada was as a Salt Lake Lalee visitor yesterday a n guest at the lie Iten on Mr 11 Taylor Is returning fr from the Irrigation atlon congress at Boise and amid stopped In Salt Sail Lake fo foa for fora a day t to visit friends connected with th tho 1 reclamation service at this point I think tho the delegates s to the tho Irrigation Irrl Irrl- gallon gation con congress re s made a er very wise move when the they decided not to Include In ill their resolutions tho the demand that tha bo be set a aside by the gen germ I oral eral government o to Lo be used for fOI the reclamation of or arid lands said mid Mr Taylor yesterday The act passed ll In 1902 provided that the money looney expended b by the time general government gov got on irrigation liTigation projects should be lie returned to the government lI by the beneficiaries lIes after lie tho expiration of oC ofa ofa a n certain time And Antl you OU know tIlls this time lime has not miot expired Personally 1 I have ha no nn doubt that hint the mone money ad- ad minced by th time the government go will bo he re refunded refunded re- re funded but It has not been heen and until tile lie government go finds out that the tIme In Investment Investment In- In vestment made along this line is a paying one It will wi be le slow to Invest more mOle money In similar projects projects It I was as a business proposition with Vill the lie government go and amid It I docs does not tOll stop to consider that It IL I Is getting Its Is mone money back through Increased revenues brought about by the settlement of the arid region It I simply wants tIme tho money back that lip people promised to pay ia ay arid and until such time arrives UI es as the beneficiaries of or even a single le project pro pro- pay to the government go what the they owe I think It I hardly the lie part of wisdom wisdom wis wis- dom doni to ask for other uther great a t i Oil S. S Of or the Carson and amI Truckee river with wih which he has been connected con con- since tho ho passage of oC the lie reclamation mation malon act Air Mr 11 Taylor raylor s said said- Id Great Irrigation Project We Ve have a project there that contemplates con con- templates ultimately the irrigation of or 3 OOOO acres of oC land The first item Hemor item Hem of or Pr work worl that hat we are ae undertaking Is the lie reclamation of about acres and amid this his we e expect to complete during 1907 Up to date we wo have ha completed a o i system to command about acres of f land and ant we wc weare weare are arc actually delivering water this Ills summer summer sum sum- mer to about acres We e have constructed so o far seven eighty Ly- Ly Lyeen en e miles mies of or large Jarge canals anti and something over too 00 miles of or laterals and drainage ditches Thu principal trouble we have ha to contend contenti with at nt the elt tUne time I is the lie scarcity of or lab laborers It I was anticipated anti anti- ant ant- that lint we w would uld finish tho the Initial unit of our project b by ila May I 1 1907 I but lut owing to the the scarcity of or laborers It Il will wi tal take u us six or eight months longer We Vt arc are now no employing ap- ap al- al men To Tn work vork to the host advantage anto c w we should have o about OO men and I dont don't know where t to find them Yes the lie major part of or the land to tobe tobo bo be bl reclaimed by hy this project Is government government gov gov- land subject to entry under the homestead law This has he been n nahed divided Into farm Carm units unit generally of eighty eIght acres each cach and any person who Is entitled to tal take e a homestead 1 Is entitled d to take e one of or these tracts The rho government is to furnish water for Cor this land at 26 an acre payable In iii ten annual Installments the nr first t installment to he be paid uld th the first of or December Dc- Dc cember cember following tho ho April Apri in which the lie water Is ready f fir I Jr er deJ delivery For FOI Instance If IC the tile settler were to receive water next April ho lie would be called upon to make his first Installment to tolie the lie government on the tile first of December De De- cember cembor 1907 Forty mt Thousand Acres cles cres Heady Within a month or two tco from front now noi we wilt will wi be ready to announce that lint about acres of or goo good public land and landIs Is open omen to entry an and ready for Cor Irrigation IrrIg- IrrIg tion iou next spring In addition to the acres for which we are now rEIt to supply water About acres aCmes of or the tIme acres referred to toIs tois 1 Is held under private ownership o an and 1 part of or It Is under irrigation alread already Some Sume of or those these uncultivated Private ate rl lands aro are for fOl sale n now hOw w at from 2 2 CO GO COto GOLO to LO 10 0 an acre The remaining acres acre acress I s is public lUblic laud land and mOld about 75 per pem percent cent of ot that has haN been taken up and amid ib p. If occupied as aa homesteads homesteads There Thele have havo been comparatively few fe nIts ales of oC the cultivated lands but hut where whelo sales have ha b been en made the tho land has brought from Crom 40 0 to 80 an nn acre Mr Ia Taylor lor leaves this his m morning for Cor his headquarters In iii Nevada evada |