Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-03-30

they must take in the $50, 900 ahead of them
Mr.. Hewitt would be willing to give $780,
600 to save his investment. From these diff
ferent means of determining the value the
court, jury or commissioners must fix the
price for the system. Does anyone seriously
minded and not blinded by prejudice believe
that the price will be fixed at less than $780,
600? The water rights and reservoir sites
alone are worth one half that sum.
The price fixed by the local paper. $780,
600 means that the certificate holders, af-
ter the expense of the proceeding in con-
domination are paid will get about SO cents
on the dollar; Mr.. Query and his co-laborers
will get nothing; MIR. Hewitt will get nothing.
Are these people going to stand by and see
the system go for $4,000, or are they going
to exert their efforts to have fair valua-
tion placed upon it?
There are no records of the Company in
Seattle, all are in the Office of the Secretary
and are open to the inspection of any stock
holder
Had the editor of the local paper inquired
at the banks he would have found that the
SO, 900 was actually deposited as represented,
and that $500 of it was paid on the survey
The water right holders and the stock
holders of the Gilmore Irrigation Company
understand about the $125, 900 of stock that
is to go to Adams and his associates; they
understand what agreement has been made
with Hewitt they understand that these and
other expenses, such as taking care of the
Receivers certificates and liens the cost of
surveys and the cost of construction. must
all be paid by the water users il this project
/ is successful; they are not much interested
in the actual cost as they are in getting the
water and getting it as soon as possible. 1t
is their business and they are willing to stand
for it. They are not willing that their COM
pany and their hope of securing water should
be attacked by a man who doesn't own an
acre of water rights or a foot of land in this
neighborhood They wish to know what bus
mess it is of his if they see fit to pay these
expenses end why he, with nothing to lose.
shorld make it his duty to attack and attempt
to destroy the work that they, for the past
year, have been doing to build up a company
that bids fair to carry them to success for
they are all vitality interested in the success
Of this company. 1t is their company and any
attempt to injure or discredt it is a blow at
all the farmers and water right holders in this
community. The attack is unwarranted and
deserves the severe censure of all business
men and women and all organizations in
terested in the upbuilding of Mountain Home.
1t is the opinion of the board of trustees
and it believes it expresses the opinion of
nine-tenths of the water right holders and
citizens that the editor of the local paper that
made the attack on the Elmore Irrigation
Company in its last issue is not a good citi-
zen in that he is not one who helps to build
up and advance the interests of the com
munity, and his paper is not the broad mind
ed liberal paper he promised it should be, is
not published in the interests of the COM
munity and is not a paper worthy of the pat
ronage of our progressive people.
Signed
B. P. THOMPSON,
E. HIMEBAUGH,
D J. c.. WATTS,
LLOYD MORTON,
D HENRY JACOBSON,
e Trustees.