Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-09-21
USING HIS HAMMER
A Knock at The Farmers Association
Means a Blow at the Tract.


by citizen OF Jerome, which, from the
tone OF the article, was intended TO be
direct knock" at the Twin Falls North
Side Canal Users Association.
The Association referred to is composed
OF over 600 active land owners on the
North Side tract, with three branches;
one at Jerome, one at Wendell and one
in the Shoe String district.
The object OF our association is for the
mutual protection and benefit OF every
settler on this Great North Side tract,
and will, before another year is past, de-
velop into buying and selling corpora
ton for the benefit OF It's members. The
2Is years that our association has been
in existence has seen wonderful growth,
and to-day it is one OF the strongest or
CARNATIONS OF farmers in the Northwest.
At the time we organized, several who
were most influential in organizing our
association were men under the employ
OF the Twin Falls North Side Land q
Water Co.
At the close of our first season when
our first shortage OF water came, and We
felt it our duty to see to it that the Land
< Water Co. furnish that which We
bought when we took hold OF this land,
several who were instrumental in helping
us organize, dropped out, and became
antagonistic toward our organization.
To go into all the work OF our associa-
ton and to enumerate all OF the many
things it has accomplished for the good
OF every settler on this tract would take
too much time and space. However, "a
little must be said about the work We
accomplished, to bring the reader up to
the present time and the subject OF the
article mentioned above.
A great deal OF time was spent the past
spring and summer by our Board OF
Directors in bringing about settlement
for damages between the settlers and the
Land & Water Co., for the loss of crops
due to a shortage OF water in the fall OF
1910, the second year of the settlement
OF this tract. We felt sure that our
troubles along this line were over, for
we were assured of a continuous flow
through this season, but, to our surprise,
about the Goth OF August we were in
formed that we were facing another
shortage OF water.
About this time the Land & Water Co.
went before the State Land Board and
asked permission to segregate 1900
acres OF high land, to be watered from
our present supply, and as this land was
too high to come under the gravity sys-
tenn, the water was to be pumped by
power to come from the Great Shoshone
power plant.
Our association objected to this propo-
sition for one reason, and one reason
only, and that was for three successive
years our Water company had failed to
supply sufficient water for irrigation pur-
poses with less than 10000 acres under
cultivation, when they were supposed to
have an abundance for l50, 200 acres in
our segregation, and we felt that they
should demonstrate beyond question Of
doubt that they had sufficient water fol
the land now in their segregation before
they were allowed to put an additional
burden ON our present supply OF water
This objection, made by our Board OF
Directors before the State Land Board,
is the subject OF the attack made against
our association, by the writer OF the ar
ticle mentioned above, and after quoting
at some length from the contract between
the Land & Water Co. and the State Of
Idaho, and also from a recent decision
of the Supreme court in the case OF the
State OF Idaho and H. T. West, VS. the
Twin Falls Land & Water Co., and the
Twin Falls Canal Co., stating that il
was necessary for him to make these
quotations because those taking the most
active part in the opposition OF putting
this IA, 600 acres under cultivation wert
not familiar with these two documents
l wish to thank the writer for his Offer
to lend his copy Of these documents fol
the officers of our association to read,
but l wish also to state that perhaps
Others interested in the welfare of this
tract have taken time to inform them
selves on matters pertaining to all serious
questions relating to our section OF Lin
coin county.
The writer at the close of the quota
tons made from the State contract, gives
the following:
but in no case shall water rights OF
shares be dedicated to any lands afore-
mentioned, or sold beyond the carrying
capacity of the canal, or in excess of the
appropriation Of water thereof
| wish to quote the following from the
writers article: This appropriation OF
water and the carrying capacity OF the
canals are given at some length in the
contract and are approved by the State. :"
/ will agree with the writer absolutely.