The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-03
THE WATER QUESTION IN IDAHO.
The Constitutional Convention Memorializes
the Interior Department on it.

BOISE CITY, Idaho, Aug. 2.-TSpecia
telegram to THE HERALD. THE majority
report of the committee on schedule was
presented to-day. 1t provides for an cleo
ton on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November after the adoption OF
the constitution by Congress and the cleo
ton of United States Senators by the state
legislature. A minority report signed by
one member is to be presented. A resoIu-
ton was also passed that committee of
ten, of which the president of the conven-
ton shall be one, be appointed tomake an
address to the people recommending the
adoption of the constitution
The following memorial aimed at a Utah
irrigation company was read and passed
unanimously: ''Wheras, the government
OF the United States has taken steps towards
redeeming the arid lands of the west: and,
Whereas, for the purpose of establish
ing thorough system Of storage reservoirs.
canals and irrigating bitches, engineering
parties are making surveys for this pur-
pose; and,
Whereas, it is learned that the plans of
the government are threatened to be
thwarted by spectators having men to fol
low up these surveys to make filings on the
land surveyed; and,
Whereas, it is learned that one corpora
ton Is seeking to seize and control Bear
lake, together with large bodies of land adj
joining its shore lines, with the intention of
making that lake great storage basin; and. |
Whereas, the same corporation is seek
ing to control the waters of Bear lake. |
together with all the waters of Bear river |
with the tributaries thereof and gulches, |
for distance of about one hundred and |
fifty miles in Idaho, with view to mo- |
nopolizing all these waters to their uses,
one purpose of which is that they NAV dis |
pose of very large portion thereof within |
the territory of Utah, greatly to the in
jury OF Idaho, and greatly to the injury of |
the people thereof,
''Be it Resolved-That it was not contem- /
plated by the government or the territory
of Idaho that any such monopolizing of the
lands and water of Idaho should be per-
mitted.
Resolved, 2That steps should be taken
at once to prevent such seizures of reser-
volr and canal locations, and the same be
preserved for the people
Resolved, 3-That Bear lake should be
retained for public storage reservoir and
the lands Immediately adjoining the lake
should be withdrawn from the market to
aid in carrying out such purposes
Resolved, by the Idaho Constitu-
tional convention now assembled at the
capital OF said territory, having the good of
the general public and the good of the
people Of Idaho, with the prosperity of the
teri tory. at heart, do hereby memorable
the departm MT of tt @ interior TO take such
action at once as will remedy the evils
which now threaten this fair territory In
the manner outlined in this memorial; that
this memorial be spread upon the journal
of this convention and certified enrolled
copy thereof forwarded by the governor to
the secretary of interiors
The preamble to the bill of rights and the
entire bill passed.
The report of the committee on revenue
and finance was taken up and discussed
until the noon adjournment. In the after
noon the discussion was resumed and con-
tnued till $3.50, when matters relating to
taxes on church and mining property were I,
left for the legislature
The names of the boundaries and county /
report was next taken up A
section provides that no county should be
divided unless two-thirds of the people
favored the measure
The Alturas fight of last winter was re-
lewed with much bitterness, and her
members opposed it because, as they said,
hey wanted to get some of their territory
pack. Several votes were taken and the ;
'wo-thirds rule sustained. Pending the |
of the report the convention !
until tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock.