The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1919-02-19
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1919
THE LINK RIvER DAM

MT. Omeiu IN MS second reason
why the land owners should vote
against joining in the suit to test
the legality of the Power company's
contract, says: Il further believe
that anyone who, having the oppor-
tunity, does not object at the proper
time. should forever remain silent"
He Is seeking to serve two objects
with this statement. One has Mr..
bradbury in mind, d Indicated by
the preceding sentences in his para
graph. Mr.. Bradbury will answer
for himself. The other is a silent OBJ
ject. 1t is this: When it was decid-
ed to slip into the contract that the
land owners voted on, the provisions
OF the resolution published yesterday,
whereby the power was taken away
from the people without compensa-
tion, the directors evidently wanted
to fix It so there could be no come
back or objection, so they submitted
the entire proceedings to the Circuit
Court for approval. Under the law
this could be done. Public notice
was given that this step was to be
taken, and If no objection was enter
ed the court would approve ALL of
the proceedings. No objection was
entered, for the reason no one sus-
pected that the proceedings were for
the purpose of confirming something
about which they had no knowledge.
That is why the people today object
to it. and why they are net going to
forever remain silent
Mr.. Ofiield, in his Third reason,
tells his farmer friends that all he
can find in the reclamation law is
the guarantee to the landowners of
q certain amount of water delivered
to his land for Irrigation purposes"
We presume from this that Mr.. Of
field is ready to turn over to anyone
who may choose to put In claim for
1t, everything that remains after the
power is gonethe rights of way,
the headgates, the water rights on the
Upper Lake, provided the farmers
will be guaranteed the water for their
lands. or course. judging from Mr.. !
Omeld's reasoning, the farmers have
not paid for any of these things,
either. He loses sight of the fact that |
the reclamation service has simply
been acting as trustee, and as such !
has taken these in the name of the !
but when the day OF an /
comes 1t will have to de- |
liver over to the owners-the farm
ers-all things for which they have /
paid, and which has come into being |
because OF such payments-power in
cluded, unless the directors of the
caiiber of Mr.. Offield will be success
ful in their efforts to turn them over
to some one else.
We disagree with Mr. Offield,
when he says that ''the Irrigation dis
trict was organized for no other pur-
pose than to irrigate and drain the
lands within it's boundaries" II was
organized to take over all of the
rights OF the Water Users Association
and these rights include the power,
as well as everything belonging to
the stockholders of the Association.
The efforts of the people to hold
tight to the power which they were
responsible for creating may seem
to Mr.. Offield, but we much
mistake the temper of the people of
me District n he will not learn that
hey mean business when they say
they want him to protect their in
Lerests. or step aside and let the
man who has their welfare at heart
larry ON this fight for them.
A. the meeting of the directors of
he District. Mr.. offieid openly ad-
nittsd that 1t was bad contract; ;
hat Il was q mistake to lose the
,owsr; that he was In favor of hold
n Il and developing it for the bene-
Il Of the landowners: Yet he goes
q these same stockholders and tells {
hem It 10 Childish" to make fight
4 knock out this contract: He tells