Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-10-28

LII: NAILED
REPORT OF COMMITTEE WHICH
INVESTIGATED HARRY W.
ANDERSON'S OFFICE.

70 the Republican County Central
Committee Of Lincoln County,
Idaho
We. your cmomittee appointed for
the purpose Of investigating the
charges made against Harry w. An
uerson as county recorder. beg leave
to- submit the following report:
We find that the board Of coun-
ty- commissioner on April 80, 1907,
being in regular adjourned meeting,
made the following order:
Upon the application Of the
Iwn Falls North Side Land & Wa
ter Company requesting the board
to establish a flat fee for the re-
cordng Of all water contracts be-
tween the Twin Falls North Side
Land and Water Company and the
settler. it was ordered by the board
after due Investigation, that the re-
corGer charge said company a fee
of seventy-five cents for recording
all regular contracts for land and
water and a fee Of one dollar for
r. ecording all land and water con-
tracts accompanied by the railroad
ronlract. upon condition that said
Twin Fails North Side Land and
Wafer Company shall furnish to
the-, 9unty. free Of cost, all neces-
>ary GurAs fo- the recording Of said
contracts with the regular form of
lle eantraets printed therein, and
al necessary indexes for same. All
records so furnished to be approved
BY the county recorder"
And also on June ist. 1901, made
like order regarding the contract
with the Idaho Irrigation Company,
Ltd
The contracts above referred to
are the contracts for water which
every purchaser Of Carey Act land
must make with the company which
furnishes the water.
rhIs order by the board of COM
missIoners was made prior to the
dlte upon which the state board of
land commissioners fixed the charg-
e. for water as the records show
that the charge for water by the
Twin Falls North Side Land and
" ater Company for their large tract
oI one hundred fifty thousand acres
was fixed on August 2iSt, 1907, and
fc~ the Idaho irrigation Company,
I'D. on August 2lst, 1907, and on
June 2nd. 1909.
% is a we'll known fact that the
settler pays the expenses of the
larry Act project and government
projects. TOO, for ,hat matter, but
We arc now dealing with the Carey
Act PROJECT.
The price cl recording these con-
tracts is twenty cents per folio zone
hundred verbs amounting to ap-
proximately four dollars. and if
,'itler should want a contract for
each forty Of a hundred and sixty
acre tract # would amount to four
lines that amount.
Representatives Of the company
before the board of COM
aissionerS at the times mentioned
and repl esented that all expenses
lcressary to complete the projects
including such expenses as record
ng contracts were charged against
he acreage of the project and thess
TENS Of expense were fully placed
lefore the state board when the
companies made their demand of
his board for stated price per
icre for water. These companies
represented to the board of commits
ioners of Lincoln county that any
'cduction given would reduce cor
the price of water to
he Carey Act settler. They also
to the board of commls
toner's that if reduction were made
n the price of recording these con-
racts that the settlers might, if
hey choose. have a separate con-
-aet for each 10 acre tract, which
, convenience should an entry
ian dispose Of part Of his claim
As the order states, each COM
any furnishes to the county the
pcord books with the water con-
.act printed therein. together with
ldexes and all the recorder does Is
] fill in the written portion of the
ontract and attach the signatures.
his work amounts in regular fees
, about forty cents for each con-
act for fhe Twin Fails North Side
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