Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15
Articles Of Incorporation Of the
Big Irrigation Project to
BE Filed
HEADQUARTERS TO Be HERE,
Principal Place Of Business viii be
Permanently Located 10 Salt
Lake City

Articles of incorporation Of the uIah
ana Idaho Water Users association are
being printed, l1 accordance with the
Views expressed by prominent inter-
osted parties al the recent meetings
held In this city, with the state engineer
and Attorney h s. Richards, and VIII
be ready for filing curly Ia the week.
The principal place OF business rs in
this city and tho territory involved IN
tho proposed scheme extends from the
Bear River country down through uIah
county The purpose OF the business
or the association as given are, ITO
provide for, distribute and furnish
TO the lands Of he shareholders Of the
association ana adequate supply Of water
for irrigation. to divert store de-
yelop pump, carry and distribute wac
Ter for irrigation and AN other beneh-
cial uses deriving the same from all
available sources OF supply TO con-
struct, purchase, lease condemn, or
acquire. own. use, control, maintain,
and operate any irrigation works. struc-
lures telephone systems electric or
other power plants and property, both
real and personal Of every kind, neces-
sary for the accomplishment Of any OF
the purposes Of .he association.
The amount Of water to be delivered
TO such owner shall be that proportion
ate part Of an the water available for
distribution by the association during
any irrigation season, as the number of
shares owned by him shall bear to the
whole number of valid and subsistng
shares then outstanding such water TO
be delivered To- and upon said lands at
such times during such season as he
may direct II it should be deter
mined by the United states that the
amount Of water available from the en-
tire irrigated system as owned or con-
trolled by It and by the association
shah be insufficient 10 properly lrrIgate
one acre Of land for each share Of the
capital stock, or II any Of the land |
shall be so situated as TO be impacl-
cable Of irrigation, then the number OF
shares shall be so reduced as not to
exceed the number Of acres determined
by the United States os irrlgable. from |
the entire available supply Of water
ana the practlcabllty Of its application. |
The association Is 90 have % direc- |
tors, with tho usual officers 10 be !
elected biennialy after the first cleo
ton IN 1906
A board of water commissioners 10 |
consist of three members shall be ape
pointed annually for each canal division
by the board Of directors Such ap- |
pontment shall be made In each |
January and no one shall be eligible |
for such Office, unless he be a resident |
within the canal division for which be |
may be appointed and a qualified |
eleotor
The corporate Indebtedness shall not |
exceed two-thIrds Of the capital stock,
and the corporate existence Is 100
years.
The seal OF the association Is q 1g- /
IRE Of two concantric circles, the out
en- being inches and the inner NJ |
inches In diameter In the space be-
tween the two are the words, Utah |
and Idaho Water Users Association
and bearing within the center space
an unroled scroll with the words and
figures thereon, Incorporated l9N."