, 1922-11-29
GREYBULL SETTLERS
TO KEEP UP FIGHT
ON SUNSHINE DAM
o. B. Mann Anal Yves Report
Of Expenditures by Commits
sioners-LittIe to Show
For $50, 900 Spent
Meeteetse, Wyo.,
Nov. 20. 1922.


The annual statement of the Grey
bull Valley Improvement District is
out and the people now have a chance
to see what is being done with their
money.
Up to October 31st, 1922, the state
ment shows an expense of S49,470.17
with material to the value of -61.S5 to
show for it.
If the expense should go on in the
way it has gone for the past two
years, or until the $500, 900 is spent,
our entire bond Will have disappeared
and we will have a bill of s799,000 for
expenses and $1,000 worth of material
which would surely build some res
ervoir.
Our commissioners up to October
31st have cost s~6,240.39. Do the peo-
pie feel that they are getting service
to that value? There are plenty OF
good men working almost every day
of the year for less.
How much time have the commits
sioners devoted to the affairs of this
enterprise? II is certain that they
have not given all their time. But,
after all, they are not responsible for
this expense as their salary is fixed
by the Court.
Next we have attorneys fees TO the
amount Of $4,000; engineering ices to
the amount of S11, Sol 81. and other ex-
penses bringing the total up to s4s.-
470.17. all of which, except the com.
missioners' salaries. has been con
tracted for and paid by the commits
sioners.
The law seems TO have been very
slack in this particular, giving the
commissioners absolute power to make
any contract. at any price. regardless
of what the taxpayers may think or
desire.
They also have power to include or
exclude any land that they see fit,
and to buy any ditches; nor do they
confne themselves to the points OF To-
cation, commandments, routes or ter
minus OF the reservoirs canals, dich-
es, and other work; or the number,
extent or size of the same as prepared
by the petitioners, but shall locate,
design, lay out and plan same in such
manner as to them shall seem best to
promote the public welfare. and to re-
claim and benefit the lands of the rar-
ties interested with the least possible
damage and greatest benefit to all
lands affected thereby
The. law does not restrict in any
way as to size or expense of reservoir
on 30 fHz rr.o-Ar,Antr far chic fe
all left entirely to the commissioners.
II they want to bond for 100000 and
find this is not enough, they can con
tinue to bond as long as there is an
acre of land for security-that is, If
they can sell the bonds-regardless OF
anything the land wner may say or
do.
The law says they are not t%resspass-
ers. If they want to teal a few boards
of our houses to stop a leak in their
reservoir they may do so and we can
replace them at our own expense and
convenience.
There is another clause to the effect
that they al buy any ditch or irriga-
cation project and pay for 1t with
their bonds at par regardless of hat
they may sell for on the market or
what the seller may wish.
l have ha,n strongly critici ed by
r. B. West, one of the Districts at
torneys. for trying to block the prog
ress of this wild dream. cannot I'M
dsrs;and why any man who knows the
full meaning OF this scheme would not
try to do so, realizing as he should,
full well, that it means ruin. not only
to himself. but TO the entire district.
The taxpayers are already heavily
b%urdened. some to such an extent h a
they must deny themselves the ne
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