Water rights -- Nevada
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
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.
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.
Arguments of Lake Tahoe Protective Association against the six feet of storage-capacity asked for by the U. S. Reclamation Service on Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe Protective Association was an organization of Lake Tahoe land owners headed by William S. Bliss. Contains statement, comments and letters by William S. Bliss and Edwin Duryea, Jr., consulting engineer for the Association from 1913. The Association was seeking to prevent the Reclamation Service from adding additional storage capacity to the dam at Lake Tahoe; the increase in capacity was to benefit the Newlands Reclamation Project near Fallon, Nevada.