Identifier: journalofele241251910paci (find matches)
Title: Journal of electricity, power, and gas
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pacific Coast Electric Transmission Association
Subjects: Electrical engineering Electricity Gas manufacture and works
Publisher: San Francisco : Technical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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them over the use ofthe water of Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River, aninterstate lake and river, as both are part in Californiaand part in Nevada, is an exhibit which has been dis-cussed in the newspapers and magazines without in-forming anyone what it really was. The map here-
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•Extract from The Control of Use of Stream Water in theUnited States, published in pamphlet form by the author. with, and the sketch cross section profile with it, areintended to illustrate the explanation of this exhibitof Federal control of the use of water. The Truckee River naturally dicharges LakeTahoe in California and after 60 miles of flow in Cali-fornia enters Nevada, discharging itself a hundredmiles inside of Nevada into Pyramid Lake. TheUnited States has no riparian proprietorship whateveralong the Truckee River in California, there being nopublic land touching the river, and has only a minorfraction of the riparian frontage from public land inNevada. The Federal Government officials thus ap-pear as basing their right of invasion of thetwo Stateson a claim of direct control of the water flow by virtueof ownership of it, and not through ownership of land,by the United States. May 21. 19101 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS 477 Between Lake Tahoe and the California bou

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