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Claim to Eureka Ditch
The Eureka ditch supplied both the Comstock Mill and the Mining Company in Gold Hill. Collection contains statement of ownership and claim of the Comstock Mill and Mining Company to a ditch and to the use of a certain amount of water from the Carson River.
John W. Freeman Papers
Includes lists of ditches in the Newlands Project area and their history, correspondence regarding irrigation of Freeman's ranch, location notices of ditches in Churchill County, copies of water claims in Churchill County, and a history of the Newlands Project.
Robert Lardin Fulton correspondence
Letter to Robert Lardin Fulton, a Nevadan engineer and water expert, from William H. Mills (1885) of the Central Pacific Railroad Company Land Department complaining that the State of Nevada was selling water and land more cheaply than the railroad. Joseph E. Stubbs, president of the University of Nevada, wrote Fulton (1913) praising Fulton's letter about Cleveland philanthropists, Reno, and Nevada; and reported on his wife's busy schedule.
J. B. Gallagher Deeds and Promissory Notes
J. B. Gallagher was a rancher in Mason Valley, Esmeralda County, Nevada; a Nevada state Assemblyman, 1873-1874; and Nevada state Senator, 1879-1886. The collection contains deeds and promissory notes for ditches purchased by Gallager and for money owed him. Parties involved included Thomas Keene, Allen Snider, Henry Mather, and T. M. TenEyck.
Charles E. Hancock Collection of Nevada water Court Cases
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.
In the matter of the determination of the relative rights of claimants and appropriators of the waters of the Humboldt River stream system and its tributaries, proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree, and notice of delivery
The Humboldt River is an extensive river drainage system located in north-central Nevada. Included in this collection is a proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree; and notice of delivery to Judge H.W. Edwards, of those proposed findings from 1934-1935. These findings adjudicated appeals to a previous case of 1931, which was presided over by Judge George A. Bartlett.
Irrigation development in Nevada
Transcript of a speech by an unknown Nevada author analysing the history of water allocation in California and Nevada, the Reclamation Act of 1902 and changes it would make in Nevada state government, and possibilities available through Nevada's Newlands Project.
A. Dobie Jenkins Papers
Judgement
Court judgement with Dangberg and Charles Schultz as plaintiffs and twenty-four defendants, allocating water rights to Clear Creek in the Carson Valley. The collection contains material from 1872 created by Frederick Dangberg.
Abstract of Title to Kirman and Rickey's Lands in Antelope Valley, California and Nevada
Abstract of title to Kirman and Rickey's lands in Antelope Valley, California and Nevada, includes a description of acquisitions, water rights, and ditches appurtenant to those lands. The collection contains material from 1875-1897 created by Kirman and Rickey.
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- United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (Title of a work--United States of America, petitioner, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, respondents) 1
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- United States. District Court (Nevada) (Title of a work--United States of America, plaintiff, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, plaintiff-intervenor, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al) 1
- United States. District Court (Nevada) (Title of a work--United States of America, plaintiff, vs Orr Water Ditch Company, et al, defendants) 1
- United States. Indian Claims Commission 1
- United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, cross-petitioner, vs Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, cross-respondents) 1
- United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--State of Nevada, petitioner, vs United States of America, et al, respondents) 1
- United States. Supreme Court (Title of a work--Truckee-Carson Irrigation District, et al, petitioner, vs United States of America and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe of Indians, respondents) 1
- University of Nevada Cooperative Extension 1
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