Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-24
Mountain Home Company
Files Rules With State
Department to be Given
Approval.
CONTRACT CALLS
FOR THEIR FILING
Exactly Define Powers and Duties OF
Ditch Riders and Men in Control
of Delivering and of Rights Of
Water Users.

AT the meeting of the state land
board Monday the Mountain Home
cooperative irrigation company pre-
sented their rules and regulations for
the approval of the board, and they
were filed for future action The
rules as prepared by the local com
pany, are as follows:
1.-Water will be distributed un
der system of rotation as will best
protect and serve the interests of al
of the users of water from the sys-
TEN; periods of rotation and rate OF
flow during such periods will be so
arranged with each individual water
user as will best suit his needs. sub
ject however, to the capacity of the
canals and laterals. The periods OF
use may be equal to, greater or less
than the periods of non-use and the
rate of flow may be varied at the
election of the water user, but IL
any case the total delivery shall not
exceed the total amount to which
the water user is entitled; the period
for irrigation will be limited to act.
ual necessities
2-Water users shall give writer
notice at the office of the compan,
or to the water master or ditch rider!
at least twenty-four hours in advance
of the time water is required the
company will, so far as possible, con
form to the requests for the deliver!
of water, except where the user is
not putting the water to a beneficial
use, and it reserves the right to de
liver the water at such times as will
in the judgment of the water master
best protect and serve the interests
of all the users
when a water user wishes the
water turned off, or change made il
supply he shall notify the office OF
the water master or ditch rider
4-Water users must use watel
during the night time as well as the
day time, and must be prepared tt
cover their lands quickly when the
water is available, and the COMPANY
will assume no responsibility for fail
ure to cover lands in case of neglecr
to make use of the water during al
the time in which it is available
5-Water will be apportioned t.
each lateral by the water master.
6-The distribution of the waite
will be in charge of the ditch riders
Caution Water Users.
Head gates must not be con
structed or installed except under tn,
supervision of representative of the
company the head gates divertini
water from the company's canals tC
the users laterals shall be under tn,
control of the water master and ditcl
riders said head gates shall be sup
piled with locks, and the keys shall
be in the possession of the waite
master or ditch riders, who only havc
authority to open and close saiC
gates and regulate the same.
S--Water users must have thei
service bitches made, head gates in |
and cisterns for domestic suppl |
built at the commencement of tn
irrigation season so that they ma |
make immediate use of the water tha |
may be available; bitches and heat
gates must be kept in good condition |
and when not the water master |
ditch rider may refuse to delive |
water through the same.
9-Water users are especiall |
cautioned against interfering wit |
head gates, locks, weirs or canals, o
cutting ditch banks or otherwise in
water master or ditch rider may re
fuse to deliver any water whateve
to water users unlawfully meddlin
or interfering as aforesaid.
10-The company, it's officers 0
agents, shall have at all times fire
access to lands irrigated from sal
system for the purpose of examinin
the canals and bitches, the flow
water, the repair of bitches and
determining whether the water !
being put to beneficial use.
11-No fences, fumes, syphon.
pipe lines. canals, bridges, waite