Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-10-13
MR.. AINSLIE'S BILL.
BY WHICH HE PROPOSES TO GRE.
ATE A GIGANTIC MONOPOLY,
That VIII Own all the Water In the
Great Snake River and Its Tributa.
rieS.

In the House of Representatives,
January 30, 1882. Read twice, re-
ferred to the Committee Oh the Pub
lie Lands, and ordered to be print
ed.
Mr.. Ainslie introduced the follow
ing bill:
a bill relating to the Idaho Land and
Irrigation Company, and providing
for the reclamation of arid lands in
Idaho Territory.
Whereas, the Idaho Land and Irri-
cation Company has been incorpora-
ted under the laws of Idaho Territory
for the purpose of digging, owning,
and maintaining canals and bitches in
the Territory of Idaho, and of direct
ing thereto, from living and natural
streams, water-courses, and springs,
water, and Of selling or otherwise dis
posing of and utilizing the same in
the reclamation Of arid lands, and for
such other uses and purposes as may
be deemed practicable and advisable,
and of acquiring and reclaiming
waste lands, and improving, selling or
otherwise disposing of the same:
Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That the right is hereby
granted to the said Idaho Land and
Irrigation Company to locate, con-
struct, and forever maintain canal
or canals, with lateral branches run
ming thcrefrom, on both sides of Snake
river, including the streams jutting
into said Snake river, also Boise river,
and streams jutting into said Boise riv
er atsuch points on said Snake river and
Boise river as from the topography Of
the country may be deemed most
suitable for divcrting the waters of
said rivers and streams; said canal to
commence at or near the American
Falls, on Snake river, SO as to irrigate
all the arid lands lying on the south
side of said Snake river from point
known as American Falls, on said
Snake river down to the mouth of
Malheur river, below old Fort Boise;
also from living streams and springs
and Boise river, to flow and reclaim
all arid land lying between said Snake
river and the Middle Fork of Boise
river down to where the main Boise
river puts into the Snake river,
bitches and canals to be taken out OF
said streams and Boise river at such
points as may be practicable to irri-
gate and reclaim said arid lands lying
between said Snake and Boise rivers
from the American Falls on Snake
river, north to point on the Middle
Fork of Boise river known as Allan
ia, down said streams and west to the
confluence of the said Snake and
Boise rivers; and the said compan,
shall have the right to locate, con.
struct, and maintain lateral or branch
canals from the main or head cana
wherever water may be needed for ir-
rigatiny the desert lands in said val
leys as above described; and said com.
pany shall have the exclusive right to
appropriate, flow, divert, and distrib
ute the waters of said rivers and
streams for the purpose of irrigatine
the lands of said valleys, and to charge
and collect from parties using sucl
water reasonable tolls; and also the
right to construct and maintain sucl
dams, sluices, and locks in said river!
and streams, and such aqueducts, tun
nels, and fumes in said canals ano
lateral branches as may be necessar,
to flow, divert and distribute said wa
ters; and said company shall have
the right to enter upon ane
take from the public lands any rock
earth, and other material that may bt
required for the construction of sale
dams, canals, fumes, aqueducts, or il
the maintenance thereof; and shal
also have the right, wherever the sale
canals and branches pass through tht
public lands, to take, occupy and us'
the public lands as right of way fo
said canals and branches, not exceed
ing two hundred feet in width OF
either side thereof, and also the lik'
right of way over and through an,
lands owned by individuals; and il
case the owners of such individual O
private lands and the said compan,
shall not be able to agree upon th'
value of the land so taken, then tn
said company may condemn sucl
. lands according to the provisions AM
requirements of the act of Congress
approved July 2, 1864, entitled "A'
act to amend an act entitled IAN &C
to aid in the construction of rail
road and telegraph line from the Mis-
souri, river to the Pacific ocean, an
to secure to the government the US
of the same for postal, military an,
other purposes approved July ]
1862"
SEC. 2. That the said company shal
f. have the right to construct said mali