Orr Ditch and Water Company
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Claude Dukes Collection of Federal Water Master's Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 84-11
Abstract
Collection contains papers from the Federal Water Master's Office, Reno, Nevada, 1926-1982. Included are office operational records, correspondence; also water data, reports, maps and printed material relating to water in the Truckee and Carson River Basins, Nevada and California.
Dates:
1849-1982
Charles E. Hancock Collection of Nevada water Court Cases
Collection
Identifier: 91-54
Abstract
This collection consists of court documents for the case which involved water rights to the Truckee River in Nevada and a reconsideration of the Orr Water Ditch decree, and for the appeal cases which arose from that litigation. The collection Includes motions, interrogatories, answers and objections, notices, memorandum, lists of witnesses and experts, opinions of the litigants and the courts. Created by Charles E. Hancock between 1974-1986.
Dates:
1974-1986
The Orr Ditch Case, 1913-1944
Collection
Identifier: NC1246/1
Abstract
In 1913, the United States sued in Federal District Court, in what is known as the Orr Ditch litigation, to adjudicate water rights to the Truckee River for the benefit of both the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the Newlands Reclamation Project. The collection contains draft and final edition of a study of water allocation and litigation over the Orr Ditch in the Truckee River area of Reno, Nevada from 1978. It also includes a history of the origins of the suit, history of various court...
Dates:
1978
Sierra Club Records
Collection
Identifier: NC1260
Abstract
The Sierra Club is a California based national organization devoted to preserving nature for future generations. Organized about 1890 in San Francisco, the club issues a Bulletin and publishes books about nature; they also investigate and lobby to prevent damage to the wilderness. Divided into chapters and subgroups based on geography. Richard Sill served on the national board of directors and executive committee from 1967-1971, on the executive board of the Toiyabe Chapter (Nevada), and as...
Dates:
1899-1979
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Water rights -- Nevada 3
- Business correspondence 2
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 2
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 2
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 2
- Water -- Law and legislation -- Nevada 2
- Water use -- Nevada 2
- Albums (Books) 1
- Bodega Bay (Calif.) 1
- Carson River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Conference materials 1
- Conservationists -- West (U.S.) 1
- Data sets 1
- Excerpts 1
- Law materials 1
- Maps 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Newsletters 1
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
- Reno (Nev.) 1
- Technical reports 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Water diversion -- Nevada -- Carson River 1
- Water diversion -- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Water-supply -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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