Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-05
At Meeting Monday Will
Take up Matters Regard
ing Rules for Local Trri-
cation System.
TWO SETS OF RULES
ARE SUBMITTED
Water Users Have Substitute Rules
Which are Offered to Take Place OF
Those Published in Republican
Several Weeks Ago.

Several Weeks Ago.
The state land board at Its meeting
Monday will take up the considera-
tion of the rules and regulations sub
mitted by the Mountain Home CO.
operative irrigation company, and
the substitute regulations filed by
the local water users association
The rules submitted by the COM
pany were received by the board at
their meeting last month, and were
published in the Republican az that
time The rules prepared by the
water users were filed last week and
are as follows:
WHEREAS: The waters of the
state are the property Of the State
of Idaho; and
WHEREAS. The Mountain Home
Co operative Irrigation Company,
hereinafter called the Company"
has built and partially completed
an irrigation system for the distribu-
tion of the States water to that por-
tion Of the general public of the State
OF Idaho residing near the irrigation
system of the Company In Gilmore
County, Idaho; and
WHEREAS: The Company,
quasi-pnblic corporation, has ad-
ministered the distribution OF the
waters of the State intrusted to IT,
in an unsatisfactory manner. causing
dissatisfaction among the water
users, and many complaints and
| grievances, oral or written. to BIO
made to this Board during the past
years, and
WHEREAS: This Board Is de-
sirous of having the waters of this
state administered without discrimi-
nation among the users thereof. with
as little friction between the water
users and the Company as possible,
and with all possible fairness to the
rights of the water users and the
Company:
To these ends, supplementary to
and subject to the laws of the State
of Idaho, the following rules and
regulations governing the distribu-
tion of the waters of the State
through the distribution part only
of said irrigation system, shall be In
| full force and effect on and after
their approval by the State Board
of Land Commissioners OF the State
of Idaho and the State Engineer.
FIRST: The management and
control of the distribution of the
waters Of the State through that
part of the irrigation system OF tho
Company after 1t leaves Canyon
Creek shall be In the hands of an
appointee Of the State Board OF
Land Commissioners hereinafter
called the States Water Superintend
ent
SECOND. With the approval OF
the Board and the State Engineer,
the States Water superintendent
shall employ such water masters and
ditch riders as shall be necessary to
distribute the waters of the state
through said system in satisfactory
manner.
THIRD The maximum mainte-
nance fee OF $3.50 per acre now be-
ing paid to the Company or which
now should be paid to the Company.
shall continue to be paid, until fur
ther order OF the board, but such
funds shall hreafter be paid to the
States Water Superintendent, out OF
such funds. the payment for the ser
vices of the States Water Superin-
tendent. his water masters, his ditch
riders and assistants shall be deduct
ed, the value of such services having
been fixed by the Board and the
State Engineer at the time of the
employment and such sums as shall
remain. shall be turned over to the
Company for use in maintaining the
said irrigation system; but none OF
such funds shall be used or applied
in any manner whatsoever upon the
construction OF or completion OF said
irrigation system.
FOURTH. Water shall be distrib-
uted by the rotation system. Periods
Of rotation and rate of flow during
such periods will be arranged be-