Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-24
WATER=USERS ARE
FORMING ASSOCIATION
Series of Very Important Meetings During
Past Week Result in Adoption of
Companys Proposals

The one thing that was needed to
unite the citiz ms of Mountain Home
and vicinity into concrete, pro-
gressive. active body, having for its
object the betterment of local condi-
tions. was the out come of a series of
largely attended meetings of the wat
er right holders held during the past
week Credit for the inception of the
idea should be given to Messrs. G.
l.. Sawyer, Thomas Mellen, d. M.
Braucht and c.. F. Wheeler, who is
sued the call for the first meeting.
Early this month the Great Western
Beet Sugar Company issued a letter
and proposal which was mailed to
every water right and contract holder
under its system, copy of which was
published in the Maverick at that
time The gentlemen who have re-
Gently become interested in the Great
Western Beet Sugar Company found
its affairs in such deplorable condition
that, without the taking of drastic
and immediate measures, those who
have purchased water rights stood to
lose all they have invested, or
greater portion of it. After many
weeks of deliberation and consulta-
ton with attorneys and officials, the
proposal, as submitted, was formu-
lated, and this embraced the only
conditions under which water right
holders could protect themselves and
at the same time enable the new COM
pany to proceed with the work of COM
pleting the system so that it will sup
ply the water already sold and con-
tracred for.
Naturally, the submitting of the
proposal produced a great deal of dis
cussion and argument, meeting
with favor in some quarters and with
disfavor in others Until the meeting
was called everyone appeared to be
at sea, and, had it not been for the
meetings, it is probable there would
have been great deal of delay in
considering the proposal by water
right holders individually, which, in
all probability, would have proven
fatal to the plans of the new manage
ment and to the hopes of the water
users and citizens generally.
The first meeting was held in the
court room on Friday afternoon last
and was called to order by John
Adams. Charles l.. Sawyer was
elected chairman and O. E. Norell
was elected secretary and these gen.
tlemen served efficiently during the
subsequent meetings. A lucid ex-
PLANTATION was given of the provisions
of the Carey act, under which the
new management proposes to operate,
should the responses to the proposal
justify it in completing and extend
ing the present system, as, under its
arrangements with the Seattle Hold
ing Company, which will finance and
complete the project in the event that
the conditions which it has imposed
upon the Great Western Beet Sugar
Company are met, the project must
be placed under the Carey Act. A
discussion of the proposal was partic-
ipated in by Messrs. Sawyer, Hell
frich, Sherman and others. and its pro-
visions and benefits were made clear
to those present Upon motion, a
committee, consisting of Messrs.
w. S. Hyde, d. M. Braucht, o. E.
Norell, c. F. Wheeler, E. c. Hell
frich, j. A. Benoit, c. L. Sawyer
and John Adams, was appointed to
confer with the officers of the Great
Western Beet Sugar Company, and the
meeting was adjourned until Saturday
morning, at the Commercial Club
rooms, to hear the report of this
committee, The committee met Fri
day evening with Mr. Yerkes and Mr..
Armstrong, of the company, who
made it plain that there could be no
modification in the conditions of the
proposal as submitted. 1t is a not
able fact that no officer or represen-
tative of the company was present at
any of the meetings and no attempt
was made on the part of the company
to influence the action of the water
right holders. The officers of the
company deemed it best that the wat
er users should work out their own
salvation without coercion or influence
on its part.
When the meeting re-convened on
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