Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-01-13

should give a certificate that it ha
] investgat, the project and allowed i
' to be built and has put its stamp o
approval upon he works in every ca
pacity
4 Sixth-The price Of the water righ
Q of any future project should be fxe2
! by the safe engineer and approved
o by the state land board. The pric,
0 so fixed should cover all EXPENSES O
/ ocnstruct ton and a reasonable amour
: OF profit for the money invested.
t Seyenth.-No water rights shoul1
[ be sold nor lands filed upon until the
!, project is fully completed and the
| water ready to be delivered, and
no filings should be permitted to be
made through power OF attorney AND
entries should only be made by act
lual, bona fide settlers. after thorough
examination of the land so entered.
Elghth-ProJects o. any considerba 4
size should b. built by units, the
area OF such UNITS to be fixed by the
state, the first unit to be completed
and q leas 80 per cen Of the water
rights thereon sold and at least 90
per cent OF all the lands under cul,i-
walton before the second unit ia
allowed to be opened.
Ninth-The water rights should not
be fixed at uniform price over the
entire project but should be graded
Water rights near the head Of the
ditch should be charged more than
those at the end OF the ditch as the
danger of loss from breakage and
seepase is less at the intake than at
the outlet.
acknowledgements charges should
not be fixed upon the amount of land
Cultivated, but according to the
amount OF water delivered and use
The company should be compelled to
install at Its own expense suitable
measuring weirs for each water user.
and the company should be compelled
TO deliver the water to the entryman
land and to these wiers where the
measurements are made. The COM
pany should also keep a record of all
the water passing through it's head
gates.
Eleventh-Each company should be
subject to inspection and examina-
tons, the same as banks, insurance
companies and such organizations.
They should be required to adopt a
uniform system Of bookkeeping and
be compelled to render a uniform
statement to the state. giving recon-
mendadions as called for. These state
ments should be published as bank
statements and the statements of in
surance companies are now required
TO be publish, d. An account should be
rendered of all waters received from
Ihe headgates and canals, showing
he water lost in transmission and the
actual amount delivered to the set
lens. No contract should hereafter
re made that caIls for an optional
pecified amount of water to be de-
ivered or proportionate amount
hereof. but contracts should be made
ttpulating that quantity of water
hould be delivered, measured at the
viers on the entryman's land sutfi-
lent In quantity to insure the rails
ng Of crops, delivery to be made dur
ne the entire irrigation season, such
uantity to be determined by the
tate engineer. the water users as !
and the company.
Twelfth-Every Carey act project
hould be organized by law into an :
'rigation district so that the settlers
lay have suitable and legal represen- !,
stives to appear for them in their :
ehalf before the state land board or
pom other matters pertaining to
leir welfare, thus placing the Set
ers in the protection OF their inter- D
vt upon an equality with the COM y
any, which has Its representatives q
} protect its interests at all times. II
il aa og64ul4a 10 oc-.4 also - =
I've Individual settlers OF many OF IL
lie hardshlps and probably much %
legation, which is proving unneces- O.
urily budensome to them. The at. I'd
rney general ought also to be re- ~
Tired by law to bring all suits that
ay be required in behalf Of the set al
ers to determine their interests I'M tn
n any contract made by the state til
I'd the state should pay the court TO
'sts of all such Litigation "
Thtrteenth-The state land board tn
ould be prohibited from changing ne
~ contracts when once entered in fr'
nv tina cnmnany until Such chapoasI Ii