Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-07-24

tract.
Under our contract the company
is legally bound to supply certain
amount Of water and it is not in
cumbent upon the settler to accept
a less amount, and the fact that the
company seeks through deceptive
methods to get this consent from
the users is no credit to them, and
it is safe advice to give the settler
that when they are confronted with
some document prepared by the
company for them to sign, it is a
good plan to sleep over it or consult
their attorney or advisers.
In reference to the water situation
in general, we give below some OBJ
servations and calculations as COM
piled by President Rice of the Board
of Directors which will be of inter
est not only to the settlers on the
tract, but the attention of the land
board and state engineer is also
called to them:
THE WATER STU ALTON.
In view OF recent events which have
transpired on the tract some observa-
tions and calculations for the informa-
| ton OF the settlers will be pertinent.
The committee appointed to confer
with the company officials CLEANED some
valuable facts upon which this article is
based
| The first important item OF informa-
ton was that the company had l5O,W ,Wu
acre feet OF purchased water in Jackson
hole This is far short Of the amount
due to the North Side tract under the
contract, as it now stands, between the
state and the company. Under the last
arrangement which was sliding one,
depending upon the amount of land sold
the storage due the second and thirc
segregations was in round numbers l42,
go acre feet at Jerome and Wilson LAKE
reservoirs. theoretically 10000 acr'
feet at jackson lake would suffer los
along the river OF 2O96 and from Miner
3Ogt OF the remainder To this must b'
, added 1900 acre feet which the govern
ment exchanged for the perrine filing
, This would mean at Miner
100, 900 acre feet less 2O9t. l2O,Occ
For Perrine filing, 10000
Total, l3O.VO
l3O,OOUa. f. less 30qo " 600
This latter would be the actual amour
; OF water delivered at Wilson lake an
I Jerome reservoirs.
, Now We have the basis for the prol
lem: GLOW long will 81, 900 feet SUI
ply the requirements OF the tract?''
: We will assume that there are 3O,Ot
acres under cultivation and that the tax
l. up will equal the loss. 1t will be ol
served that this means three feet for eac
II acre under cultivation. The contra
;, calls for second foot for 81 acres col
e tinuous flow. There are 50. 400 secon'
n in day. The second foot would ther
le fore cover 81, 400 square feet one foot
2 depth in one day, or approximately ty
s. acres, there being IS, $50 square feet
h an acre, or approximately 40 days /
v the 81 acres.
5, Ii it takes 10 days to cover 50 acr
N one foot deep it would take l2O days
as run three feet of water on the sal
ground. Now assuming that the peoI
is who are cultivating land have half
10 their acreage in cultivation, they are {
:, titled to their full acreage flow so long
they can use it beneficially. This 81
t would be full l-S0th of an second I,
~ per acre flow for 90 days or until Sc
III 25th, or until this years crops are II
)f tured, and until after water has ag'
\, begun to flow in the river.
There exists, therefore, no excuse
:" either rotation or a diminished How
ne the information is correct and the
of sumptions on our part are approNlma
j. ly near the facts. Nhey are so near
facts that invite the company to 6
the actual acreage, or galnsay or C
tradict the conclusions reached 10y til
TO mathematical processes.
ms No conclusions are drawn i'll this
at tice. But the question is raised. W
this scare about the water? And v
" the necessity OF this request to the &C
}" pany to run decreased flow rather q
ITS rotation which request contained
of signing away OF certain valuable ris
,rs under the contract? These questions
ha to the company.
To the settler the pertinent ques
po arises why were We such chumps as
be do it? And does it not seem that
ers need Il guardian who has a more di
.ri- interest in us than does the Land Bo;
One suggestion is that it would tie
- to carry every paper the Company st
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