The record-union., 1899-11-16

lions cannot be made productive. Why.
Because you cannot get enough out OF
the man with the hoe to pay the prof.
its of the spectators. That sort OF
thing will not pay. because you can
make a water tenantry out of Anglo
Saxon landholders. The only way TO
do is to make the water right and the
land under the same ownership.
water right system never has been and
never can be successful"
Mr.. Maxwell closed by saying that ne
favored the adoption of these resolu--
tons, as the working Of the present law
had been injurious to the irrigation
companies of the State.
John p Irish was the next speaker.
He said in part: Put this matter in the
hands of the judicial courts. They are
the best qualified to determine whether
the investments have been properly
made, whether the stock has been
watered and whether the companies are
working in the interest of >the water
users. / am not finding fault with the
way the law has been administered, but
with Mr.. Filcher's law itself. Only
court can reach a determination as |"
whether the water rights are being
properly cared for. Then reform your
misbegotten law, Mr.. Filcher. That is
where we stand now
Colonel Irish INDUCED in humorous
references at the expense of the Legal
profession that interrupted him ire
quently with applause and laughter
L. NJ Holt of Riverside introduced
resolution providing for calling con-
stitutional convention to revise the
Constitution so as to bring about leg
islation that would accomplish the de-
sired end The resolution declared that
twenty years of failure of our present
experimental mode of operations is SUI
cient to warrant our people in demand
ing revision of our system so that the
wheels of industrial development in this
State NAV not be forever blocked"
The resolution was referred to the
committee.
L. J. Hicks, the representative OF all
but one of the water companies OF the
Kern River Valley, made an extended
address upon the engineering phase Oh
the subject. He said in part:
1T is my opinion that the cost OF
storing water in Central and Southern
California would not be less than $lO
per acre-foot stored. 1t will be nee
essary to store four acre-feet of water
for every additional acre that is added
to our domain. Hence the cost would
approach very nearly $40 per acre-foot.
and the question is whether we care to
open the door to unlimited water issues
to undertake what from a private
standpoint would be deemed wholly UNI
profitable"
The flood water convention completed
it's labors tonight at Metropolitan
Temple, after two days of hard work.
1t outlined a plan for the storage of
the waste waters of the State, and be-
fore adjournment turned it over to 1.-The
California Water and Forest Associa-
tion,'' a body created by itself Tor the
express purpose of carrying out its
will The affairs of the new associa-
ton were placed in the hands of an Ad
visory Council of seventy, ten from
each Congressional district, also created
by the convention. With this associa-'
ton now rests the problem of securing
the aid for which the convention was
first called together.
The delegates from each Congress
ional district are:
First District. M. Gleaves. Shasta;
General N. P. Chapman, Tehama;
George H. Maxwell, Sonoma; William
Smythe, Lassen; H. NJ. Lebaron, Marin.
Second District-William Grant. Tuo-
lunsae; ]. A Filcher, Placer; w. A.
Newcum, Amador; H. A. McCreary,
Sacramento; J. w. Walling, Nevada.
Third District-W. F. Pierce, Alamo
da; R. Barker. Solano; P. r. Garnett,
Glenn; c. w. Thomas, Yolo; George A.
Ware Colusa.
Fourth District-F. J. Symmes Gavin
McNab, Irving NJ. Scott A. B. Spreck-
els and A. ]. Freud, San Francisco.
Fifth District-F. w. Dohrman, Pro-
fessor c. D. Marx of Stanford Univer-
sity, William Thomas, Timothy Hop
kins, T. c. Friedlander, San Francisco.
Sixth District-T. j. Field, Monterey;
Colonel James G.. Deadrick. Santa Bar
bara; c. B. Booth, L. NJ. Holt, Charles
Forman, Los Angeles.
Seventh District-A. J. Pillsbury, Tu-
lare; F. S. Rice, Kern; c. K Hamburg
San Diego; A. r. Briggs. Fresno;
George NJ. Cooley, San Bernardino.
These will choose five additional from
each district tomorrow.