The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-08-19

lands in private ownership permitted
To apply for water from The govern
ment system.
g. How is the association managed?
A. Directly by the water users them
selves and through the officers elected
by them.
.. How much water will be furnished
to each water user?
A. He will receive his proportional
part of the entire supply in the hands
of the association, not in excess of the
amount necessary for the proper Gull
tivation of his land.
@. What assurance has he of u suf-
ficient supply?
y. The assurance that the govern
nlent, having determined the area
which can be cultivated to the highest
efficiency, the association is required
TO limit the lands represented by its
shares to that amount.
q. What will be the cost of the gov
eminent water right?
| A.. The smallest amount consistent
with permanent work. Steel and con-
crete win be used wherever required.
The heaviest part of the cost-that is,
the maintenance, which goes on for
ever-will be educed to a minimum.
@. What is the connection between
the association and the government?
A. Before beginning construction the
government will make a contract With
the association, in which the latter will
guarantee the payments and agree to
enforce the collections from it's share
holders by means of the lien on their
land if necessary.
q. Does the shareholder derive any
advantage from this lien?
A. Yes. 1t protects him against the
possibility of being required to pay for
Il shiftless neighbours water right, for
without the lien the association would
be required to assess each member for
n deficiency.
q. How soon must a mar dispose of
his excess land?
n. He will not be required to do so
before the time that the government
is ready to furnish the water, thus
gaining the advanced prices resulting
from the large expenditures of the
government and the sure prospect of
water, and having. without expense, a
good market for his land that he could
have had under no other conditions.
g. What is done to make it certain
that such excess lands are sold?
y. The owner must agree that if he
does not sell them to a properly quail
fed person by the time the government
water is ready, the association shall
have power to 90 so.
@. Will the lands be sacrificed by the
association?
=. No. Every officer and member of
the association is a land owner, and a
depreciation of land values is against
his Interest. The demand for land will
probably be so great, as construction
approaches completion, that large
prices car be easily realized by the
owner himself.
@. How are former water rights af-
fected by joining the association?
A. The reclamation act expressly pro-
tects vested water rights. BY joining
the association the owne of such
rights puts them in the care of the as
ISOLATION and the water is to be de-
ivered to him as before, being lnclua-
ed in the complete supply furnished
from the government system. His pri-
GRITTY of water remains intact, is pro-
tected by the articles of the association
and may be reasserted if ever there
should be a shortage OF water in the
future.
@. How are such rights to be pro-
tected If the need should arise fifty
years hence?
A. These rights must be definitely as
~certained II made a matter of record
as soon as the association can take
the matter up after the government
construction has begun. This adjust
ment a be made by mutual agree
ment, or in the courts.
O.. If a tract to be subscribed for
contains and which is not irrigable,
how many acres should be included?
A. The subscription should include
the entire tract. The secretary of the
interior will. by careful and expert eX-
animation. determine the ilrigable area
of each tract. The shares representing
non-irrigable lands will be cancelled,
n the government will make no
charge against them.
@. Can a man subscribe for a part
of his land aud leave the rest out of
the irrigation system?
A. No. The association will accept
1 SnhSprintinpc np1yr urba,, thau owe a.
entire body of land owned by the SUBJ
scriber. No subscription should exceed
100 shares, but any person may make
several such subscriptions if he agrees
to dispose of his excess land located
under the system.
q. What is the form of organization
contemplated by section 6 of the act,
to which the management and opera
ton of the irrigation system is to be
turned over when the payments have
been made for the major portion Of the
lands irrigated?
period approaches in the first project
to be contemplated. The form of water
users association already discussed can
be readily adapted to meet the neces-
sary requirements. Organizations of
this form Will require few il n
changes to meet the conditions con-
templated in section 6.
@. If own a tract of land to which
water may be brought by a govern
ment ditch, how shall 1 obtain a water
right?
A. 1t will be necessary to become a
member Of the local water users as
ISOLATION. and subscribe to all Of the
requirements of membership in such
association.
Q. For how much land can water be
had?
A. Section 5 OF the law states that no
right to the use of water for lands in
private ownership shall be sold for a
tract exceeding 100 acres to any one
landowner.
@. Can 1 obtain water for a full
tract of 100 acres?
A. This matter is left to the dis
erection Of the secretary, and the acre
age may be reduced to 120, eighty or
forty acres, according to the surround
ing conditions.
Q. Can l, while residing in some
other locality where l am earning a
living. obtain water for a tract of land?
A. You cannot obtain water right for
your and unless you are an actual
bona flde resident on such land, or oc-
cupant thereof residing in the neigh
borhood.
Q. What is mean by the neighbour
hood b