Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-19
GOVERNOR HAWIEY LAYS DOWN
LAW AT MEETING OF STATE
LAND BOARD
Must Deliver Water.-Case Of tho
King Hin Irrigation Company
Gone into in Detail BY the Gov
ernOr.

eralities and empty promises. These
settlers must be protected in heir
rights. They must have carried out
their part of the contract in good
faith and they are entitled to some
thing more than tangible talk from
the company
These words, uttered with con-
siderable force by Governor Hawley
yesterday afternoon, threw the spice
Of life into the hearing of the King
Hill irrigation case before the state
board of land commissioners. Attor-
ney o. o. Haga. representing the ir-
rigation company, the Farwel Trust
company and the North American
Securities company. was speaking at
he time, telling what his companies
proposed to do for the settlers.
This hearing consumed the great
er part of the afternoon. Delegations
of settlers headed by their attorneys
representing both the King Hill and
the King Hill extension projects were
present to submit grievances and ask
relief at the hands of the board. It
was shown that these settlers had
been on the land for two years. that
they had complied with all the re-
quirements. and that they had never
had the water called for by their con-
tracts. Last year they were burned out
and lost their crops. and TO them
it seemed no effort was being mado
to supply them with water for next
year They feared that they would
have to abandon everything and lose
their investments
The cause of all the trouble SEEM
ed to be that the King Hin Irriga-
ton and Power company never had
sufficient money to carry out It's COR
tract, and although c. IT. Hammett,
the president and the largest stock
holder. sacrificed everything he pos
sessed. financial embarrassment came
TO the concern. II was shown, too,
that the canal was never large enough
to supply water to the King Hill
tract to say nothing of the old Med
bury tract, or the King Hill extension.
Then the fumes rotted, the canal
fell into decay in many places and It
became impossible for the settlers
to get water to save their trees and
raise their crops.
ginally II was intended TO carry
100 second feet of water in canal
from the Malad river to the land, a
distance of so miles. 1t was to be
carried over the river in a syphon.
The settlers assert that the canal
has never carried more than 1875 sec
ond feet at the point OF delivery. The
contracts call for 200 feet for the
King Hill project and 100 feet for
the King Hill extension. There are
now about $500 acres demanding
water in the two segregations.
1t developed that the Farwell
Trust company of Chicago had float
ed the bonds for the irrigation COM
pany. and that to save itself it had
undertaken the completion of the
contract through the North Ameri-
can Securities company In this way
$500. 900 of bonds were to be carried
and a sum approximating 100000
more was to be raised to complete
the canal system. All this was given
out in a statement from Attorney
Haga. He also said that $15O.000
was Immediately available to put the
system in condition to deliver water
for next season. and after that the
permanent work Of constructing the
canal is to be taken up.
Attorney Haga also explained that
william M. Wayman was on his way
from Chicago with complete engin-
eering plans for the work to be done
The work. he said, would be started
at once and he felt sure that he wa
ter would be ready for the settlers IN
the spring
The question as to the ability OF
the bonding company to carry out
the program came up and it was de-
cided that Governor Hawley deter
mine this by wire. Judge C. o. Stocks
lager. who appeared for a number OF
the settlers announced that II his
clients could not get relief in any
way from the company or the land