Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-30
EXCEPTIONS TO
STATEMENT THE.
STATE INDEBTED
Land Board Orders Report
of Idaho Irrigation Com.
pany Filed = Prohibited
From Further Water Sale.

The state land board met Monday
and transacted routine business includ-
ing the granting of number of loans.
The minutes of the board submitted
for publication show that exceptions
was taken to the claim OF the Idaho
Irrigation company as to its owing the
company money paid for the purpose
of making an investigation as to phys
teal condition Of its property.
The minutes of the board follow:
Boise. Idaho. Oct. 81, 1917, State
board of land commissioners of the
state of Idaho met this day in regular
session.
The following proceedings were had,
to-wit:
Minutes of the previous meeting
read and approved.
This being the day set for the Idaho
Irrigation company to come before the
board, and the company not appear
Ing, the register read letter from the
company setting forth the companys
position In regard to the sale of water,
after which the following motion was
made by Governor Alexander and car
ried unaniomusly:
10 EXAMINE SCCKS.
Moved that the report of the Idaho
Irrigation company be filed and the
state land board takes exception to the
claim set forth in said report as to the
state owing the company $3,567.4S for
the purpose of making investigation
on the physical condition of the prop
erty rs well as the water supply.
The following resolution was pre-
scented by Attorney General Walters
after having heard from committee
of settlers on the Idaho irrigation
tract, which resolution was adopted
oy the board:
Resolved, that the Idaho Irrigation
company be and is hereby prohibited
from directly or indirectly selling or
leasing water rights to open Carey act
land within its segregation, or private
or public lands either within the seq
regation or otherwise. until further or
der of this board, and
Be ii further resolved that the state
auditor is hereby directed to examine
The books of the Idaho Irrigation COM
pany with reference to the sale by 1t
Of water rights and report his find
ngs to this board.
Attorney General Walters also in
reduced the following resolution:
Whereas the following named set
Tiers under the Idaho Irrigation COM
panNs project have appeared before
this board ,to-wit: +. w. Gooding
7. B. Jones, w. j. Tappan, John Bad
ley, c. A. Culbeson, \. w. Sine, Ben
Daro and w. o. Biggs, protesting
against the said Company selling fur
Their water rights and also claiming
that the company has without the con-
sent of the land board sold, or bar
gained to SELL water rights to certain
individuals either within or without
the segregation: among the number
they claim have purchased water
rights from the company are Tony En-
mis-, Shoshone, end A. l.. Furbee, of
Gooding.
1T is therefore oreefed that the reg
lister of this board write the said En-
mis- and Furbee asking them by what
authority they claim the right to the
use of water from the Idaho Irrigation
companys works, and advising them
that the records of the land board
show that they are not entitled to wa
ter from the said project: and that the
register also mail the company a copy
of this resolution"
Upon roll call the above resolution
was adopted unanimously
Moved by the attorney general, and
carried, that the Idaho Irrigation COM