Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-01-05

owners OF eisterns used for storing
water for domestic purposes ten
days before the water is shut off for
the season, that they may have time
to fiji the same.
TWELFTH: The Company, its
officers or agents, and the States
Water Superintendent and his assist
ants shall have at all times free ae-
cess to lands irrigated from said
system for the purpose of examining
the canals and bitches, the repair OF
bitches, and of determining whether
the water is being put to beneficial
use.
THIRTEENTH: The Company
shall provide tow path along the
right Of way of all its canals and
main laterals in the distributing
system; and the Company shall pro-
vide gates along such path wher-
ever a fence which existed before
the building of the canal, across the
canal and the land owners shall con-
struct gates in all fences built since
the construction of the canal cross
ing said tow path, so that the ditch
riders shall follow the canal and not
be compelled to follow the highways.
FOURTEENTH: All headgates
must be so constructed that devia-
ton in the flow in a ditch will pro-
portionately increase or decrease the
FLOW to each user, that is headgates
shall be constructed in such manner
that part of the water users along
the same ditch or lateral take their
water over the top of the headgate
and a part take water beneath the
headgate.
FIFTEENTH: Locks shall be
maintained on all headgates of each
individual water user.
SIXTEENTH Weed catching de-
vices shall be maintained and kept
cleaned in all main canals and lat
erals
SEVENTEENTH: The amount of
water that is to be allotted to each
lateral must be stated when the
schedule is made out, so that the
water user can build his bitches ac
oordingly.
EIGHTEENTH: The Company
must put the distributing system in
he condition as recommended by the
State Engineer in his report of May
}, 1917, to the State Board of Land
Commissioners.
NINETEENTH; Failure on the
part of the Company to comply with
'ules or any of them adopted by the |
3oard shall relieve the water user
rom any payments to the Company,
dues, interest or prin-
ipal excepting so much Of the main
enance as may be necessary to pay
he States Water superintendent and
lis assistants.
TWENTIETH: The Company
hall have no right to lease or rent
water to parties not holding water
contracts.
TWENTY-FIRST: In the event
hat the water supply is short from
ny cause, then the remaining water
hall be distributed pro rata accord
ng to the acreage receiving water
Inder contract.
TWENTY SECOND: 1t shall be
he duty of the States Water Super
ntendent to have a record kept OF
he amount of water used upon each
ract of land under the distribution
ystem so far as possible in order
hat the Land Board and the State
Engineers Office may have reliable
alta upon which to fix the duty of
'ater.
TWENTY-THIRD: When re-
uested by the water user, the States
later Superintendent, water master
t assistant, shall inform the water !
ser the amount of water user has {
5ed up to the time of such request.
TWENTY-FOURTH: There shall .
2 no discrimination between indi- I
duals using water and water shall 8
: distributed according to the pro \
ortions due each water user fixed r
7 the acreage of each individual =
ser entitled to receive water under !
e contracts. r
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