Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-06-10
THE INCOMPETENCE IN THE LAND OFFICE.

cacy of awessness in avoraby quoting advice to enemies
of the Capital News to resort to violence in the absence OF
argument with which to defend the exposures made by
this paper and whose editor the hired master OF the
people, serving register of the state land board again
complains that this paper does not tell the truth The
Capital News speaking of the contract made with the
Twin Fas-Salmon River Carey act project promoters de-
ared that the promoters made no agreement to deliver
water the settlers but merely agreed to build reser
tunnel DAM canal and to sell shares In the sys
tenn.
The Leader-Herad just suspected that it would,
back with quotations from the contract which quo
tatons the Nampa paper declares, dsprove what the
Capital News had said One of the clauses OF this remark
able contract quoted by it is as follows:
that the hereinbefore mentioned shall
feet Of water which amount addition to the normal flo. the said res
for Of land be
Instead of disproving what said the above quota
ton exactly proves just what said That clause of the
contract binds the promoters to construct dam so as to
provide reservoir for the mpoundng of 100000 acre
feet Of water but where does it obgae them to provide
the water?
for big reservoir reservoir fact big enough to hold
amount which, Gin addition to the normal flow of the
said stream during the irrigation period, HAS BEEN
DEEMED TO BE sufficient to furnish two and three
orhs feet OF water per for each OF land to
be sounds pretty say but where is the
agreement to furnish this two and threefourths feet
Of water?
The reservoir which the promoters required to
build has been deemed to be sufficient to furnish
Is
that water?
In other words, reservoir of sufficient size to hold
million acrefeet of water might be contracted for to be
built in the Sahara desert but what good would do
less there water enough to fill unless there should
be binding agreement to provide that water9
Register Jenness advocate of awlessness and violence
whenever he has defense make for his conduct that
of his political fellows quotes another clause of this
markable contract to prove that not right This
clause is quoted as follows:
lateral
of
Here, again, we have merely contract TO BUILD
canal big enough to carry the amount of which thu
reservoir would hold if there any water but no
where there any contract to place water in the canal
lateral SYSTEM to keep it there TO DELIVER it t.
the settlers
In short the very proof the advocate of lawessness
violence who edits and publishes the Nampa newspape
while drawing big salary from the state cites to sustain
his contention, sustains instead This remarkable
contract which the state land board made binds the pro
motors to build dam and reservoir and to consrc
canals, but IT NOWHERE REQUIRES THEM TO DE
LIVER WATER TO THE SETTLERS that were to b
fched with the connivance of the state
The inability of the register of the land office
who has held his position for number of years, to
such vital defect in a contract AFTER 1T HAD been
POINTED OUT TO HIM, is but another illustration o
the general incompetence and neffciency maintained il
the state departments by the political machines that hav
brought the state to the verge of and which will SHOW
it entirely the precpice unless the entire outfit
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