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

/ DIfi5 CENTS for each contract iOl
ie iiaaho irrigation Company Ltd
ue that one person records between
nifit and forty contracts pr day
ihal ~ ne price agreed upon by
49, comissionets the county Is still
stalking sooa money on these con-
facis
W. fiad That Cassia county rs IL
existed belore Twin Fails county
fts created cid exactly the same
Z hing s. Lincoln county has done.
seepi lhal iualaaa If charging se,-
niy-llge coni- lor recoff ing the
lfoairdcls the recorder Of Cassia
I e0unis By oroer Of the hoard Of
commissioners. ouls charged forty
CENTS Tor recording the contracts
telwsfp the Twin Pals Land ard
Water CompanA and ~. settlers.
We also ind lhai Twin Falls
county has lnaae fiat fcc'of one
iollar for recording the contracts
II lhe Twin Fails Salmon River pro-
iecl and also Canyon county has
established flal fee Of twenty
cents for recording thc government
contract The Boisc-p ayetle Wa
itr I sers' Association IN that cOun-
Is acting for the government. APP
pearcd Ia behalf OF the settlers on
tins project aud requested a flat
fee OF twenty cents for recording
their contracts which was granted
~ the board of commissioners and
apued with in every respect by
Mr.. q. y. Bailey, the Democratic
clerk Of Canyon county, and who is
Low The Democratic nominee for
secfeiary Of state: it thus further /
appears that the Democratic clerk /
of Canyon county has permitted The
same act and complied with Che
same order for which Mr.. Ander-
son j. being criiisized. Thus what
has been done III Lincoln county in
luis respect has been gladly done
in three other counties Of The state
aud no question has been raised
,r no criticism made OF this proce-
dGrc The people have viewed IT
as a wise and beneficial act as such
& was and perfectly within the law.
Upon investigation it lhus plain
~ appears that those acts on part
Vi the board Of commissioners was
made for the benefit of the farmers
under The Carey Act projects and to
save each Of them the unnecessary
expenditure Of money, that what
1,r saving was effected by this
trdes was a saving TO the Carey
tt Farmers II anyone We're benc-
iNed hs this order IT was these
people The Carey Act farmer who
r. 20 Lincoln county and reclaim
ID tn, dessert and created valuable
homes and taxable property where
iolhng had existed for centuries
lelore.
The irrigation companies we're not
lac oues who benefited by this
,lcr
u thus further appears that Mr..
anderson acted IN a purely clerical
apacnN and il was neither his priv '
lege "a hls duty Ia question in any
lanuc lhe propriely of mpropri-
rs ~ This orocr 81 there be those F.,
.no lhmk Me order should not
db been matte
we can find nothing that savors a
/ Nr kplA or graft M amy of these -
The county recorder a
.cuNod his fee of SeNenly-five W
spts for each contract recorded M
nd Turned 80 INTO the county treas
fy
We find too. That The state eX- y
nucr whose duty 10 is 10 examine &c
r. N0der,ous office al stated i'm W
rivals. has fulN gone into This mat 81
r. and Is of the opmou that q is ca
'gular. We cannot see where any "
a. was at lauull m these matters, Gle
,nscquenllS no blame attaches $,
We recommend that our Findings /.
uade as public as possible SO that n
c people may understand the fact ( On
Id MIR Anderson together With the de
,urd At county commissioners may si'
d b, ccnsured for that for which sc
- should be- thanked, leI
laied this 18TH day ct October a0
-. 1910. ~
J. ". O1CONNElL. Jerome Idaho l.;
FRANK ADAMS. Hepburn. Idaho.
l.. n. ADAMS. Rupert. Idaho
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