The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-14
NOT To MAINTAIN
LhIERA[S
OF WENATCHEE
CANAL co. ISSUES ULTIMATUM
TO WATER USERS IN THE VAL
LEY.

owners and water users on Washing
ton avenue and the territory north
of Washington avenue who secure
water from Washington avenue lat
eral, held meeting to protest against
the new rules and regulations adopt
ed by the Wenatchee Canal company
this year. This company has made
an announcement that hereafter wa
ter would be delivered to the laterals
from the main ditch but the company
did not Obligate itself as to the care
of the laterals. A committee was
appointed at a meeting of the resi-
dents of Washington and adjacent
avenues to take the matter up with
the officers of the high line company.
A resolution embodying the senti-
ment of the water users was con-
veyed to the company. This resolu-
ton was as follows:
Whereas, According to the ORR
ginal contracts between the Wenat-
chez Canal company and the under
company, said company agreed to
build and maintain a main canal and
laterals and deliver the water to said
purchasers at some convenient point
near the land to be irrigated. and
Whereas, Said company built said
main canal and laterals. and
Whereas, Said company now ne
elects and refuses to deliver said wa
ter to said purchasers using water
from the Washington avenue lateral
and
| Whereas, Said company agreed to
! deliver said water on the 18th day
of April of each year. and
Whereas, by reason of the neglect
and refusal of said company to de-
liver water through the Washington
avenue lateral, each of the under
SlSHeu uoSiS VI water lIOIi Sdtu ldI-
eral is now suffering material dam
age by reason of the failure of said
company to deliver water;
Now, therefore. we, the under
signed users of water from said
Washington avenue lateral hereby de-
mand that said company maintain
said lateral and deliver water to said
users along said Washington avenue
lateral, measured according to the
terms of our respective water con-
tracts, without requiring us to resort
to law for enforcement of our respect
i've contracts
| The first of the week reply to
this protest was received as follows
Mr.. John E. Porter. Chairman
Washington Avenue Water Users
Committee, Wenatchee. Wash.
Dear Sir: Pursuant to your re-
quest that the company give a state
ment in writing confirming my YER
bal statement to your committee |
beg to say that the company does not
consider itself bound to deliver water
at any point except the headgate in
the bank of the main canal. with
which the Washington avenue lateral
is now connected and that the COM
pany's income from maintenance fees
is not sufficient to permit of our per-
! forming gratuitOus service in main
| tanning laterals, as we have some
times done in the past
Il may say further that the COM
pany desires the good will of the wa
! ter users and has always felt that
the whole sum received from main
tenance fees should be devoted to
the upkeep of the irrigating system.
| For this reason we would be glad
! to aid in keeping up laterals, even
though not obliged to by contracts.
| if the necessary funds were available
AS you may know the company is
making extended improvements in
the canal with the object of making
it possible to deliver water continu-
OuSly during the entire irrigating
season without liability of Interrupt
ton by breaks. Into these improve
ments is going all the money which
the company derives from the sale
of water rights. with the result that
thus far the cOmpanys stockholders
have derived no profit from the en-
terprise. nor is there any likelihood
that they will ever receive any bene-
ut except that of having a good and
sure water supply for the orchards
which they own individually, a bene-
fit in which all land owners under
the Wenatchee Canal company can
al share.