The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-29
Water Rights
Finally y Adjusted

A specia to the Great Falls Trib
une from Chinook, June "a, state,
that number of the leading mel
OF the Milk River valley gathered
there Saturday at the request of l.
Newman, who went to Washington
on their behalf in order to remove. il
possible, the obstacles which had
arisen to the prosecution of the work
There were presentat the meeting H
N. Savage, in charge of the reclama.
ton work in this State, and Attor.
ney Eggleston, of the reclamation
service, l.. G. Gilman assistant to
Pres. Hill of the Great N orthern Ry.,
Senator Everett. B. w. Brockway
ii. IL. Nelson and other leading citi-
zens of the lower valley.
Mr.. Newman made an interesting
report OF his trip to Washington and
It's results. 1t was found that the
obstacle which prevented progress in
the work at this time lay in the OBJ
Jectlon OF the reclamation service to
the manner in which section four of
the agreement of the present owners
| OF water rights had been carried out.
This section calls for a description
OF the lands irrigated under their
CLAIMS at present, and the govern
ment insisted that the irrigable land
IN each 40 should be described in
steau OF merely claiming it's use On
the whole OF their holdings of land.
After much debate the officers of the
reclamation service and those pres
ent came to unanimous agreement
that section four should be amended
by the addition of the following
words:
lit is further agreed that if any
water right owner in this section
named shall contract to sell, sell or
transfer any portion less than the
whole OF any tract Of 100 acres or
less, to which a water right attaches
as above specified, the contract of
sale deed or other instrument of con-
veyance shall distinctly specify the
amount OF water apurtenant to each
40 acre tract so contracted to be sold,
sold or transferred, and COPY of
such contract, deed, conveyance or
other instrument of sale shall be
filed with the reclamation service
and the ditch company from the
ditch OF which the said lands receive
their water supply. In case of any
sale or transfer of such lands with
out specification, no water rights
shall be recognized by the reclama-
tion service to be apurtenant to the
lands so sold or transferred, unless
such specification shall be made in a
subsequent instrument filed as afore-
said, prior to the time the waters of
the st. Mary's river are turned into
Milk river.
1t is also agreed that the present
land owners under private canals
shall definitely designate by 4O-acre
tracts, the areas to which their pre-
sent water rights attach, prior to the
time the waters of the st. Mary's
river are ready for delivery thereto"
This proved satisfactory to every
one present, and as soon as it Is ap-
proved at Washington the final steps
necessary to start on the Milk River
project Will be undertaken by the
reclamation service and the Water
Users association. The latter will
try to get necessary signatures OF
water owners and users, and if the
are successful Uncle Sam will set
the construction wheels moving.
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