THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXX 



CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1915. 



No. 10 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



The National Land and Irrigation Journal 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE PARK HERALD 



THE WATE USERS' BULLETIN THE IRRIGATOR 



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In a brief, which he presented to the 

 Questions Board of Costs Review and Revalu- 



Project Cost ation on the Truckee-Carson (Ne- 

 Reviewers vada) project, Fulton H. Sears, a 

 Should Answer water user, asked a series of impor- 

 tant questions. If this board or any 

 of the other boards failed to answer these questions 

 fully in their investigations, Secretary of the In- 

 terior Lane should direct them to meet again and 

 continue at their labors until they have found the 

 answer to each question, except No. XVIII, which 

 refers only to the Truckee-Carson project. Mr. 

 Sears' interrogatories are as follows: 



I. Have you examined the books of the Recla- 

 mation Service at Fallen, Nevada? 



II. If so, did you find them in such shape that 

 you could verify each item of cost for each feature of 

 the project? 



III. Did you find original entries in such con- 

 clusive shape as in your experience would be ac- 

 cepted by any business corporation engaging in en- 

 terprises of the magnitude of this project? 



IV. Have you examined and found complete 

 the original Engineers' Notes for the various feat- 

 ures of this project? 



V. If so, did you find them with cross-sections 

 and computations so as to be enabled to determine 

 cost and unit data? 



VI. In the case of Force Account Work, were 

 the records complete so as to be enabled to properly 

 determine classifications? 



VII. Do you believe what is known 'as Prog- 

 ress Reports, as known in the service, would be ac- 

 cepted by any corporation or any court of law as 

 original and proper evidence of the facts contained 

 therein ? 



VIII. Is the original data of this office shown 

 by original Engineering Notes, or by Progress Re- 

 port ? 



IX. Have you checked up the vouchers and 

 found that each was a proper charge to the Truckee- 

 Carson Project? 



X. Have you personally inspected each canal, 

 both in use and not in use as a board, in order to de- 

 termine waste in construction, if any? 



XI. Have you inspected as a board each lat- 

 eral, both in use and not in use, in order to deter- 

 mine whether they are useful or whether waste in 

 construction has intervened? 



XII. Have you counted the structures not in 

 use and which were placed to serve lands which are 

 not irrigable or agricultural, and computed the cost 

 thereof? 



XIII. Have these facts all been taken into con- 

 sideration in your report? 



