The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-27
Government Instructs Agents
About Granting Of Sunnyside
Water Right Applications
ASSOCIATIONS APPROVAL
is NOT A NECESSITY
Applicant and the Project Engi-
neer Entitled to Make a Show
ing Which Will Protect Land
Owner

Approval Of the Water Users as
ISOLATION of the Sunnnyside project is
no longer necessary to water right
applications under that project. Cen
eral orders have been issued from
Washington to the register and re-
ceiver of the land office here show
ing that the acting secretary of the
interior has approved the recommen-
dation of the acting director of the
reclamation service that the land Of
flee here be instructed chat the GER
tificate of the Water Users associa-
ton shall not be required but that
water right applications may be ac-
cepted by the register and receiver
without said associations certificate
upon a statement of the applicant and
a certificate of the project engineer.
Situation Is Strained
There is a strained situation be-
tween the government and the Sun
nyside Water Users association. The
contract of the Water Users associa-
ton with the government provided
for the collection of delinquent water
right charges by the association but
owing to contingencies which arose
under number of projects the gov
eminent has seen fit to get out new
water right contracts which contain
a provision allowing the governm e nj
to proceed directly to the collection of
charges or through the Water Users
association, as it sees fit. The Water
Users association under the Sunny
cit 20
change thinking it violated certain
rights they had under the contract act
with the government and therefore
they refuse to approve water right ap-
plications under the new form with
the result that since judy list no
contract under the new forms have
been approved by the Sunnyside Wa
ter Users association.
Makes New oCntlnct
To meet this contingency the gov
eminent now sends out this general
order stating that the approval of
the Water Users association is no
longer necessary. Applicants have
merely to show that their contracts
with the Water Users association are
in good standing and certified to by
the project engineer, that the water
right agreement between the land
owner and the Water Users associa-
ton is of record, whereupon the land
office can execute water right con-
tracts on the new form without SUBJ
hitting them to the association.
Government Requirements
Under instructions to the land Of
flee the statement of the applicant is
to be that he is a member of the
association in good standing and the
project engineer is to certify chat
the stock subscription contract has
been duly filed for record in the
proper county and that so far as the
records show the subscription and
standing of the owner of the land as
a member of the association is I'M
changed"
The land office here is directed to
proceed in accord with the above
provisions as regards water right APP
plications for lands under the Sun
nyside project but is explicitly told
that the instructions do not apply to
the Tieton project IL is evident
from the communications from Wash
ington that the government does not
propose to make the reclamation
service suffer the loss of funds justly
entitled to accrue to It.