Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-30
court OF HONOR
FOR SETTLEMENT
Of ALL DISPUTES
Method for Remedy ing Diff
cllties on Irrigation Prof
ects Of the State Suggested
by 0. 0. Haga.

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A Court Of Honor consisting Of the
biggest and brainiest business mon Ut
the commercial organizations Of the
state to settle irrigation troubles and
Keep litigation out Of the courts Is o.
o. Haga's idea for killing the adverse
advertising that IL now going back to
the eastern states from Idaho.
Mr.. Haga points to the hundreds Of
difficulties that are settled every year
between the business men Of New York
City by the court Of honor Of the
Chamber Of Commerce there. He be-
1ieves that the hundreds Of cases that
now 60 into the courts would be ad-
justed, that the investors OF the east
and the settlers who immigrate to this
state would feel they had somebody to
protect them after they came here. and
that most of the suits that now fill the
calendars of the federal and state
courts could be adjusted in q salts
factory way.
Put your own house in order first
before you try to start out after more
immigrants and more irrigation conf
panies." said Mr.. Haga this morning
Il believe that the best solution would
be to establish a court of honor in each
Of the commercial organizations Of thu
state. consisting Of the biggest ana best
business men that they have. Wher
questions come up. these men, aftel
a careful and full investigation, woult
be able to make a strong report OF
the best way out OF the difficulty ant
would settle once and for all the
troubles that are now daily threshet
out In the federal and state courts ~
the northwest.
when q company goes into a fielt
and undertakes to water the land o
a project, 1t assumes that the soil I:
as it appears on the surface. After tn,
canals are dug and the water is turn.
ed into them, t is often found that thu
soil will not hold water, that in place!
1t consists Of formation that will no
resist the action Of the water passing
over it and the canals are not able t.
deliver the requisite amount unless
they are concerted at tremendous ex
pense.
To Get Out Of Politics.
Just before election, these prob
lens always come before the stat,
land board. The settlers say that II tn,
members of the board do not act II
accordance with their wishes, they will
throw their votes against them and tn
results in the last election show tina
to be fact. The trouble is that ir
rigation matters are too badly mixet
up in politics. They are not always de
cided on their merits. The settler
want this and the companies ma,
want that and both wait until the las
minute before election in order to In
fluence the members Of that board t
vote the way that they want them t
| vote.
"If the state should insist on tn
comany carrying out Its contrac
With the settlers, made before tn
ground was tested, the corporation
would go into bankruptcy and the set
tiers would be no better off than the.
were before because they would no
have received water.
1.-THE question Is, therefore, what
| the best method that would give tn
! settlers the water and would enabl
the company to carry on it's CONTRACT
| That is a question Of fairness and
one that could best be settled by bust
ness men. 1t Is not question for law
yers because II Is admitted by bot
sides that the company cannot carr
out Its contract, although the contrac
is there in writing and properly an
officially signed. Had the condition
been rs was expected. that contrac
! In ~ tod
"This is the trouble with the Kin
Hill project, 1t Is the trouble with tn
Big Lost River project. and 1t is tn
trouble with nine out Of every ten prof
ects in an irrigated state that has an
trouble at all. Before me this minute
I have petition in bankruptcy in TIL
| federal court of Oregon for a larg
irrigation company that could Mt
meet it's debts because Of the same sit
| aation that exists in Idaho. Its as
sets are s1,037.227.50 secured liabilitie
| $1,61 1000 together with $500, 900 of url
secured Indebtedness. It merely show
| the chance that the investors of til
east are taking when they put the
money into such corporations. The
do not know the conditions that the
will have to face. They do not kno
what they will have 10 meet.
Must Devise . Remedy.
"Some way should be devised
which the interests of both will be Pre-
tected. We are spending thousands I
dollars for advertising In the east an
want both immigrants and investor
The adverse advertising that we al
getting from the litigation on the.
projects kills everything that we do Z,
the advancement of the, state. Lor
Miner. an English bond buyer. said I
a conference OF investors In Idaf
projects, I feel like . perfect ass Il
putting my money into such stun
and that IL the way many Of the blu,