The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-04-06
RAISE MAINTENANCE
Settlers Using Water Must Make Ad-
yanccs Ftr iiiuse Not Paying.

At tue meeting of the directors OF
tie Canal company heIu III HoillstGf
Saturday alleInoon, the maintenance
charge was tlAed at 80 cents per acre
for lnis year. TINS does not repre-
sent the eslimateu cost OF maintaining
and operating the system, pro-rated
over the acreage sold--sucn cost being
slightly less than 80 cents per acre
but includes an amount Of offset the
deficit in the funds of the canal COM
pany, which is caused each year by the
many entrymen who are not using
their water, refusing to pay their
maintenance. Heretofore the promo
ton company has advanced funds to
make up this deficit in operating ex-
penses, but according to advices made
public at Saturdays meeting, they do
not propose to do SO in the future,
Hence, the necessity of enforcing
larger payment from those who are
cultivating their entries and have to
have water, to offset the charges
against entries which will not be paid
by reason of such entries not being
cultivated, and for which were those
entries to be cultivated, water could
not as matter of fact, be furnished.
Confronting tremendous shortage
in this years supply of water, even
for those lands now in cultivation, the
directors of the canal company have
found 1t necessary to arrange for wa
ter deliveries on a different plan than
has been in use in the past. Pursuant
to the resolutions adopted by Satur-
days meeting, the management of the
company will endeavor to determine
the amount of water available for each
acre of land in cultivation this year,
and proposes to advise the entrymen
of the amount of water upon which
they may depend for the irrigation of
their entries this season The entry
men on their part will be expected to
adjust their requirements to such
amounts of water as may be available
The text of the resolution follows:
BE 1T RESOLVED, That, in order
to insure the equitable distribution
among stockholders of the water stor-
ed in the reservoir and available for
distribution through the companys ir-
rigation system, the Board of Direc-
tors are directed to make estimates
each season as early as practicable
of the available water supply and to
allot or apportion such water from
time to time and cause the same to be
distributed to the several stockholders
who are not delinquent in the payment
OF maintenance charges, such allot-
ment or apportionment to be based up
on the number of acres irrigated and
entitled to water from said system.
And the Board Of Directors shall adopt
and enforce such rules relative to the
allotment and distribution of water as
will best protect the interest of all
stockholders; but no stakeholder shall
receive more than his allotment, and
no stakeholder shall receive more
than required for the proper irrigation
of his crops according to good irriga-
ton practice. The Directors and Off
GERS OF the company shall at all times,
as far as practicable, prevent waste
and encourage the economical use of
water, to the end that all the water
available for irrigation during the
year shall not be distributed to land
owners unless necessity therefor ex-
lists, but the same shall be carried over
to succeeding years as precautionary
measure against drought or a short
age of water in the future"
The statement of the canal company
shows uncollected at the end of 1915:
1912 maintenance T 6e1 ct