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Bishop Creek, Canyon and Reservoir and Twelve Mile Spring Elko County, Nevada
In 1911 the Pacific Reclamation Company had big plans. They would create a marvelous city named Metropolis (twelve miles northwest of Wells, Nevada). To support this grand city they would farm the desert. They had the land, the seed, the people, and the water. Put it all together, and with a lot of hard work, life would be grand. This page is about the water. To irrigate their lands they built a substantial dam in Bishop Creek and ran a ditch to the upper end of Metropolis. Unfortunately, by 1947, "drought, water rights litigation, high interest rates, jackrabbits and Mormon crickets contributed to the demise of the town and surrounding farms." Not much is left of the town, nothing is left of the fields, but the dam, ah the dam, the ditch and the reservoir - there is much to see on this page.
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USGS Topographic Map of Bishop Dam (1968)
USGS Aerial Photograph of Bishop Dam (1994)
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Additional Information: Northeastern Nevada Museum
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Recent Photos by Dan Turner 5/26/02
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