The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-07
STEVENS ABILITY AS SHOWN BY THE RECORD
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case his office when he fixed the item at so days. $5oo
The interest the bills for about IS per cent ne
interest on the engineers bills about 50 per cent In other
words 5000 spent for summons drew interest until announced
1922 and spent for engineers was on interest," ut
amounted to about Part of the referees Dill was on
interest four and half years. and the Egnts were clamorng
all the for chance get the case closed up ana pay e
COSTS They also losing tremendously on the management
of the river as is shown elsewhere this article ne total amount
collected from the qants was and the total amount
expended to date $3S26 and there are some warrants out
standing which will be paid presentation
The Time Spent in the Work
The total number of days charged for by Referee Cowen
was 2S7 days about months OF this $50 days was merely
TO cover work done presumably odd times his othce at
Salmon This leaves 1877 days spent hearing testimony ana
was estimated that took days working the othe TO get
FORM including perhaps what was taken by Judge stevens
There bill for Roman Sefert court baIlH, working s.
DAYS under Judge Stevens but he shows only So days under
Referee Cowen though he charges SIS for services at St.
Anthony in December 1870 and $50 for railroad fare and @
penses at Backfoot and Idaho Falls
The stenographers bills amount to $2'5S4o5' OF wh'Gn
$4,000 was paid to c. C. Dietrich $I,o29o to Daniel H.
Hame 1915 the referees office stenogpher ana $3.50 70
somebody Bafoot not Indicated tor redraftg inc
parts of the decree in which errors were shown
It does not appear how much done by StenograPher
Dietrich or when or under what conditions he worked The
records of the show only that he paid lump sum OF
thousand dollars after several requests TOR payment anu upon
filing of an execution by Attorney c. Beebe order tor
drawn in of Dietrich but assigned to somebody else PROB
ably represents tenographic work j..
The bill of Senographer Hamer allowed the basis
of per folio for orgna copies and hve cents per
for duplicates and trpcates To this he added all OF his rail-
road fare pullman and diner and hotel bills postage paper anu
typewriter ribbons and approved by the referee Nowen
and Judge Stevens and paid by the clerk ,
large of the total expense OF the SUIT was TOT uI
services of engineers and craftsmen surveying and mapping all
the bitches and farms. w :.
People who have not sheen through the mill OF making
new farms and new dheS and combating the difficulties attend
ant upon the formation of systems of irrigation IN country Where
all was more of experiment. and where the very ounda
tons of things changed and forced conforming OF depenaene
L. ed cOnH
Snake river farmers worked during the days when the decree OF
the Snake river water was being formed
In Idaho the season for farm work short and people are
necessarily pushed with work all About the middle OF
v when the first cutting of hay has been up and there
need of good flow of water rrgae the meadows and time
is precious and the supply would begin to SHRINK
the farmers would have leave their work the farm and rig
I'M TO 90 camping but for pleasure the mountains lhey
would have with and to the head OF the cana
and work the rock gravel preparing some device to get
into the canal Day after day they would prosecute their work
canning on the lob and seeing the 60 lower each day. we
recall one occasion when such condition rendered the case
less until it was decided face the rock dam with canvas ne
accordingly four hundred dollars worth OF new canvas was I'M
rolled across the stream in few hours 1t brought the desired
results and was thought that the could be taken ou
after the drought saved for the future But was pressed
so tight against the rocks that it was punured some Pacs
stretched in Others and it would have been impossible to get
out the day, but after lying the water ana sun WIN TN
air excluded from for couple OF weeks was SO sort Wou
pull to pieces whenever touched The next year the sam
hno was repeated to get water and afforded relief but within
few hours afterwards other company did the same thln
farther up the river and off the flow so much that those eV
were still without water and had expensive dams across or
channels. :,
With the farmers suffering such hardshp with crops wort
millions of dollars suffering from lack of means OF governing tn
distribution of water with people amorng for the speedy ad
Indication of the rights of the entire valley the reere
appointed to hurry the work completion, was content to e
aS7 DAYS work drag along through period of 1882 days
one period of more than years when nothing done Whe
the farmers were suffering the most trying hardshps to manta
their homes the referee charging them ten dollars "a
when he worked putting short hours charging them in addition
three dollars day as his living expenses adding to that his trave
ing expenses and then computing interest on that until ne cashe
the bills years afterwards The farmers were willing to pay exr
costs to get speedy settlement of the matter but the way wa
managed they pay the for the delay In addo
to all the and operating expenses incident to the dea