Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
THE BANK OF MONTPELIER
GROUNDLESS CHARGES.

II there is any particular part of the
state Of Idaho of which all Idaho is proud
it is the great irrigated sections of Twin
Falls and Lincoln counties. Idaho has done
and is doing more than any other state, in
TACT more than all the other states combined
toward reclaiming her arid lands under the
Carey act. Empires have been built on
barren sage brush deserts and the thou
sands of people are happy, contented and
prosperous.
The same capitalists who have furnish.
ed the money to build these empires are
planning to beild a still larger one. They
will reclaim over 500, 900 acres in one pro.
iect, making the largest irrigation project
in theworld.
The chairman of the Democratic Cent.
raj committee and the democratic organ.
the Evening Capital News. for the purpose
of discrediting the State Land Board, and
helping to make few votes for the demo
cratic ticket have, without foundation or
fact to support their claim, charged fraud
on the part Of these men end the land board
and endangered the completion of the pro.
ject.
to prevent serious consequences to the de-
velopement of the state, the business men
Of Boise appointed committee to investi-
gate the charges.
Following is the report of the commit
tee:
To Boise Business Men:
FOUR committee appointed to investigate the
action of the state board of land commissioners of
this state in approving the proposal made by Mr.
Bull in the name of the Twin Falls Land & Water
company, for the segregation and reclamation under
the Carey act of about 500, 900 acres of land in
Owyhee county, submit for your consideration the
following report:
Your committee has held several sessions and
made'a careful and panstaking investigation of all
the facts in connection with this matter there have
appeared before it the governor the attorney gen.
era state ergneer assistant state engI eer register
of the land boord the attorney for former rival
applicant for this segregation the editor of the
Capital News and the chairman of the Dem cratic
central committee. These parties were examined
b. members of your committee and by the attorney
Tor the committee concerning the matter under in
vestigation. They requested to Law before
your committee all the facts within their knowledge
touching the charges made against the board.
w Z nave also examined the records and files
in the Office of the board of land commission
and the report of the state engineer IL relation 10
this matter.
''From the examination made and the facts
before us, find:
'First: That while the records Of the Lar d
board in the under investigation may not be as
full or complete as may desirl, yet they are
not such as to justify the atacks make on the board
by the Capital News.
''Second: All facts consde e l. we are con |
WINGED that the land board used good business iudg
ment in accepting the Bull proposition, and that
any other would have resulted in great injury
tn the state
awe feel that the completion of one of the
greatest irrigation enterprises undertaken one
that would add probably hundred thousand peo-
pie to the population of the state, or is In great
danger of being jeopardzed by the attacks and
charges directed against the board. We think that
in where the welfare of the city or the state is
affected, newspapers should use the utmost care
in asceraining the facts and should weigh we'll the
effect of proposed publication We do not mean
that papers should condone or overlook crime or
wrong doing, public or private, bnt they owe 1t to
the public to investigate thoroughly letore pub
fishing something that if not well founded, may do