Imperial Valley press., 1910-08-20
DISTRICT ORGANIZATION
 URGED BY JUDGE HAYNES ONLY PRACTCABLE SOLUTION 0F WATER PROBLEMS CON- FRONTING IRRGATORS IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY Single District Under Brdgord Act Preferable to Any Other Form of Organization. Right of Eminent Domain of
 Vital Importance in Acquisition of Canal
 System and Resistance to Ex- X cessive ExaconS

Mutual Water Company within the territory of which it should be formed, and pay for the same with the pro- ceeds of sales of it's bonds.
 Second: Under the broad powers given by Section IS of the Bridgeford Act, a number of irrigation districts thus organized in Imperial Valley, might purchase, and become tenants in common in defined interests cor responding to their needs in, a water system which is capable of supplying all the irrigable lands within each district.
 There would be no legal difficulty in the way of thus purchasing the prop critics of the California Development Company, so far as they are physically within the State of California The answer to the question as to whether such irrigation districts could pur- chase the physical property of the Mexican Company within Lower Cali fornia, 1 postpone for later consider ation.
 The questions thus far considered seem to contemplate the dividing of the lands in Imperial Valley, irrigable from the Colorado river into num- Der of irrigation districts. I would regard this as exceedingly undesir- able for many reasons, among which are the following:
 1. There would be very great com- plexity and difficulty in the settle ment of the boundaries of such nu- merous irrigation districts, with the liability to conflict between them, and to the possible delay in the inclusion of some lands within any district, and the consequent postponment of the irrigation and improvement of such lands.
 2. Another important objection to this subdivision would be the redu- plicatiOn of the whole machinery pre- scribed by law for the government and administration of an irrigation district for each one formed.
 3. The great difficulty in selling bonds of numerous districts so organ iZed.
 4. The constant tendency to dis putes and conflicts between the dis tricts in the joint control of any sys- tenn for the diversion and carrying of water from the Colorado river.
 5. These and other considerations bring me to the question whether un- der all the circumstances, it is advis- able to form one irrigation district which shall under the Bridgeford Act include all the lands in Imperial County, irrigable from the Colorado by the same system of works. am of the opinion that the formation of such a district is the only feasible way of dealing with the whole situ- ation.
 Among the reasons for this opinion are:
 CD. That the Irrigation District Act furnishes the only provision un- der the law by which a two thirds majority may constrain a minority of land owners to enter into the organi- zation. In other words, 1t furnishes the only provision of law by which compulsion can be exercised over an unwilling minority, A voluntary cor- poration can compel no one to join it. The only organization for irrigation which has behind it the authority and power of the law to compel mi- nority to submit to 1t, is that provid- ed for by the Bridgeford Act.
 CD, The power of condemnation of property is not given by statute to the ordinary mutual water company. but Is given to an irrigation district. which Is in its main and leading features an organization for the mu- tual benefit of the land owners within the district to secure water supply for the irrigation of their lands. at cost. As is apparent, this power oE