486 



REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 



Carey Act projects in Nevada, including segregations made, applied for, and 

 projects for which land has been temporarily icithdraicn. 



List 

 No. 



9 



10 



11 

 12 

 13 

 14 



15-16 



17 



18 

 19 

 20 



21 



22 



Company promoting project. 



Pacific Reclamation Co 



Las Vegas Irrigated Fruit Lands 

 Co. 



Stage of development. 



Las Vegas Farming Lands Co . 



Charles S. Wilkes 



Las Vegas Irrigated Lands Co do 



Amargosa Land & Irrigation Co. Segregated 



Segregated 



Held for rejection by Gen- 

 eral Land Office. Now on 

 approval. 



"[[do.""] ...WW"'.'.'.'.'.'.'.. 



Vegas Valley Land Co . 



Pahrump Valley Land & Water 



Co. 

 E. C. McClellan & W. T. Smith. 



Ellison Ranching Co 



De Witt C. Turner 



Loveland Land & Development 

 Co., and Humboldt-Lovelock 

 Irrigation, Light & Power Co. 

 (Inc.). 



Western Development Co 



Held for rejection by Gen- 

 eral Land Office. Now on 

 approval. 



Temporary withdrawal 



do 



do 



Recommended for 



rary withdrawal. 



do 



tempo- 



Total. 



i 



.\creage 

 in project. 



Acres. 

 10,246 



8,857 



7,523 



2.404 



6,800 



17,705 



6,717 



13,440 



27,978 



50,184 



6,230 



10, 175 



4,956 



Source of water supply. 



173,215 



Natural streams. 

 Artesian wells. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Artesian wells and sur- 

 face flow. 

 Artesian wells. 



Do. 



Natural stream. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



1 Biennial Report of State Engineer, 1909-10, State of Nevada. 



THE VALUE OF THE CAREY ACT. 



Most of the national land laws, designed as they were originally 

 to pro)note the development of land in the humid and semihumid 

 sections of the United States, were of little value in encouraging de- 

 velopment in the Western States where arid conditions existed. The 

 entryman in the Mississippi Valley, by his unaided efforts, could 

 develop his land and cause it to produce abundant crops. The effort 

 of the entryman in the arid region to make a living and cany out 

 the intent of the law governing his entry was bound to be a failure, 

 however, unless he was fortunate enough to secure a tract of land 

 along some stream where water for irrigation w^as easily made avail- 

 able, for without water the land was absolutely unproductive, and 

 an area ten times that permitted under the land laws would not pro- 

 vide even a bare existence. The natural result of this condition was 

 that the easily developed land lying in narrow^ strips along the natu- 

 ral streams w-as taken up under the homestead and other laws, and 

 when this land was all occupied further settlement ceased. The ex- 

 isting land laws jjroved entirely unfitted for conditions in the arid 

 region, and therefore the next step was the passage of the desert 

 land act in 1877 (19 Stat., 377), which permitted the acquiring of 

 not to exceed 640 acres of land by actually irrigating it and paying 

 the Government $1.25 per acre. This law was amended in 1891. (26 

 Stat., 1095.) Under the amended law the maximum area that can 

 be acquired by one person is 320 acres; it is required that $1 per acre 



