Newlands Project (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0191
Abstract
The Agricultural Experiment Station began with the 1887 Hatch Act, to develop agricultural research and education. In addition, during the 1930s, it worked with other federal and state agencies, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Nevada Emergency Relief Administration, the Farm Credit Administration, and Indian Field Service on several projects. In 1939, the Experiment Station, together with the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the Nevada Agricultural...
Dates:
1929-1942
The Pyramid Lake controversy
Collection
Identifier: NC1132
Abstract
The Pyramid Lake Controversy is a student paper submitted to Oberlin College on water rights and use of Pyramid Lake and Truckee River water by farmers in the Newlands Project area near Fallon, Nevada, and the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
Dates:
1970
University of Nevada, Reno, Bureau of Governmental Research Collection of Pyramid Lake Water Controversy Records
Collection
Identifier: NC1202
Abstract
The collection includes legal briefs in the case of the U.S. and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe vs. Truckee-Carson Irrigation District; correspondence, reports and notes on the California-Nevada Interstate Compact for Lake Tahoe, much of which was authored by Robert Leland; material on the Newlands Project; legal briefs in the case of the U.S. vs the Alpine Land and Reservoir Company; minutes of the Pyramid Lake Task Force; and materials related to deeding water rights to the tribe, from...
Dates:
1969-1979
Filtered By
- Subject: Pyramid Lake (Nev.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) 2
- Agriculture -- History -- Nevada 1
- California-Nevada Interstate Compact for Lake Tahoe 1
- Clark County (Nev.) 1
- Douglas County (Nev.) 1
- Droughts -- Nevada 1
- Electric power systems -- Nevada 1
- Electric utilities -- Nevada 1
- Elko County (Nev.) 1
- Humboldt River (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Land use -- Nevada 1
- Land use -- Planning -- Nevada 1
- Lincoln County (Nev.) 1
- Lyon County (Nev.) 1
- Maps 1
- McDermitt (Nev.) 1
- Nevada -- Maps 1
- Pyramid Lake (Nev.) -- Water rights 1
- Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada 1
- Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Water rights -- Nevada 1
- Water use -- Nevada 1
- Water-supply -- Nevada 1 ∧ less
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