Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1906-07-20
HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 20 1906.
STATE E1KK1GAr1oN COMMISSIONERS.

STATE IRRIGATION COMMISSIONERS.
The State Commissioners Meet at Dead
wood and Organized for Action.
The water commission of the state
of South Dakota met Saturday at the
Franklin hotel and transacted con-
siderable business.
The commission is composed of MIR.
Walter Hamilton, who represents the
district No l, composed of Butte,
Meade and Lawrence counties; S. %.
Wilsonr'of Hot Springs, who is the
commissioner for the second district,
which includes all of the territory
west of the MISSOURI with the eXcep-
tiaa of the counties in the first dis
trict. The other member of the COM
mission present is Mr.. s. H. Lea, state
engineer who is the ex-otfcio chairman
of the board The other member of
the board who will represent the sec
tion of the state east of the river has
not yet been appointed.
is to inquire into and regulate the
water rights that have already been
in existence before the recent state
irrigation legislation, to inspect all
work OH private irrigation pro. aets,
land TO see that the dams are construct
ed in accorJ,anco vii the laws on the
subject, and not in manner that
would be o menace to the welfare of
the cummunity. The commission has
the power TO get all the facts i'll the
matter and where a legal point is in
volved the attorney general of the
state acts as legal adviser of the board
.sio,t Oh lna tiuie oi jas board Was
taken un with arranging 1h3ir method
of procedure. But other matters we're
considered, Que concerning an old
waier rlgnF neac ,torg's anG aro6her
dispute between two water users near
not Springs The law on the matter is
clear aad provi6e5 ti.4t no individual
has the right 20 mo.a thaa ore ea5ie
foot OF water per second for each
seventy scre-. No decision was ari'iv-
, ed as OF either question, bit ther will
be another session Of the commission
: at Pot Springs for ne purpose OF in
quiring still 'urther into bo.h mat
, ters.
? Tho commission Will hold another
meeting here on Monday. at which
t time they will complete the work be-
] gun at their meeting Yesterday. that
as anim- 80 ,tl'as e ..7r3ca 'a"e 'in-
Ger hieh q hoard Will aot Prom
neaawn0' Mr.. T4ea AMI M namilton
will go 10 Belle Fourche to inspect
{ sonc nrivate ilrirat'on work bat is
being Home There, The meeting few
days later at Hot Springs win be the
t i3st meeting Of the board till next
$ | March. wi,en it viii meet in Pierre, as
e required Dy Law.
:. Mr.. Lea is very optimistic over the
e future of the arid strip between the
e Bills anl the lissouri. " We expect
,f to see the 5ine.'' he said when steam
ers VIII again ply up aud down the
20 MisSourias OF old. or course it is i'm.
e possible 4ow, AID unnecessary on ae'
). count OF TIC soarsaness u population.
e but when that country is filed up anc
a irrigated by artesian wells, which
think it will some day, steamers viii
again appear on tbs upper Missouri
believe it via be possible to use tht
is waters Of tho GisaGuli fer irrigation
k. There is a man now near Pierre who i.
-e boing that very thing, raising The waite.
9 to irrigate his land by pumping i
Or with steam engine We we're some
TO what doubtful as to whether or not th,
T. federal government, which has juris
" diction over navigable streams woult
q permit ii, and we referred tine matte
at to Washington and we we're infomet
a that there would oe no Interference
NJ. by the United States so long as ther
IN we're no dams or breakwaters erected
of that would act as barriers to naviga
to ton. consider that a very import
en- ant ruling and it will have an import
NO ant bearing on the future of thi
nd state Pioneer Times.
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