Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-12
Land Board Proceedings

| Boise, March 10.-The state board of
land commissioners of the state of
Idaho met this day in regular session.
! At this time, the board having re-
ceived the briefs of w. l.. Dunn, who
appeared on behalf of the protestants
against the proposed maintenance
charges for 1919 on the Twin Falls
Oakley project wherein the potestants
against the particular item in rela-
ton to completion of tunnel lining,
amounting to $12,500, and wherein the
professionals insisted that the said
charge was not a proper maintenance
charge but was the original construc-
ton charge which should be eliminat-
ed from the maintenance charges, and
the board having also received a letter
with reference thereto from Hon. S.
III. Hays, who also appeared for said
Oakley Canal companys and the board
having carefully considered all mat
ters and things in connection with said
maintenance charge and the protest
filed against the same, now finds that
the work listed in the said notice as
completion of tunnel lining and for
the sum of $4,000, and which item was
protested against, is a maintenance
charge and not a construction charge.
for the reason that the whole system
was heretofore fully accepted and APP
proved by both the state engineer of
the state of Idaho and the board of
land commissioners.
1t was moved, seconded, voted upon
and carried unanimously that the said
protest be and the same is hereby de-
MED and that the said charge protest
ed against be retained as a mainte-
nance charge.
Further that the said maintenance
charges as advertised, proof of which
has been made and filed with this
board, be and the same are hereby APP
proved as filed and as contained in the
notice given thereof, and that the reg
lister notify the interested parties of
this action of the board.
Application having been made by r.
w. Faris and S. III. Hays asking that
entry No. 265 in the name of Hector
c. Haight covering SEA SWA section
35, township IL SOUTH range % east,
which said entry was cancelled on the
23rd day of December, 1918, shall be
re-instated. 1t was explained to the
board that Hector c. Haight, the en-
tryman In question, was deceased, and
that he has never been given oppor-
tunity to complete his entry and proof
upon the lands embraced In the entry,
and no proper notification has been
| given to the administrator of the estate
or next of kin of the necessity for
making proof, and it also being shown
that the eldest son of the deceased
Hector C. Haight was at that time
| serving in the armies of the United
States in France; it was ordered that
the entry in question should be al
| lowed, providing it did not conflict
with some other entries that had been
accepted in good faith on the lands in
question. And further, that the adj
ministrator of the estate of Hector c.
Haight, or next of kin, should make
a proper statement in regard to never
having received a proper notification
| of the demands of the state board of
land commissioners prior to the can
collation. of the original entry.
| Letter of State Timber Cruiser Ben
E. Bush in regard to the settlement in
the matter of trespass charge against
the Export Lumber company was pre-
scented to the board. 1t was moved,
seconded and carried. that the settle
ment made by Mr.. Bush be and the
same is hereby approved. and that the
check Of the Export Lumber company
in the amount of $155 be received, said
check being in payment of timber cut
on the following state lands .to-wit:
seq NW&, section 36, 4s north, s
west.
1t was moved, seconded, voted upon
and unanimously carried, that patent
list No. 81, class "a" North Side Twin
Falls Land & Water company's pro-
ject be approved and the state engi-
neers report covering same be ac-
cepted and approved.