Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-01-31
Agricultural News
of Imperial Valley
MISS MAUD HALL
POPS UP AGAIN
in QUEER DEMAND
Wants Canal Moved, New
a Bridge Built-AlsO
~ a New Road

#with US.
Nj Miss Hall is the lady down in the
@No. section who did not come into
III Ire Irrigation District when it was
some - years ago. \
#circle was drawn around her land
Nind since then she has been treated
s4ls a foreigner. Rules that applied
AKto everyone else dif not apply to
Miss Hall because she was not in
Hsnor of the District. She has always
sshecn n special case and many times
s8a very trying problem for the man
,iagement of the Irrigation District.
81 Now that the District is to alb
afs6rb the mutuals it was thought that
fIihe estrangement with Miss Hall
lfwas to come to an end. They were
Ebont to kiss and make up, we were
Ns Ding to say, but probably not that
Eabecausc Miss Hall is n lady and
#smOreover she has never exhibit ed
slany tender sentiment toward the di
rectors of the Irrigation District, at
4lcast not of an uncontrolled nature
sslikely to find expression in kisses.
III But Miss Hall realized that her
assituatiOn rs in outsider, now that
asthe District is to operate the mutuals
eswas to be difficult one, and had
Isnade petition to come into the dis
The directors were willing to
xIlet bygones be bvgoncs and take the
lady in; but now the fat is al in
1.-THE fire again because of the atti
l3tude, and more particularly lie eX-
Factions of Miss Hall.
Makes Conditions Hard
\ Miss Hall has considered that the
rapproachmont,' as the French
#call it, meant more to the District
kthan it really does and so she laid
8down her conditions so hard that
@lthe directors have turned her away
Kfrom the door III a rude and cold
3manner.
Il If she came into thd District Miss
Hall wanted the District to pay all
the costs of advertising and such.
The law says that she must pay.
Morse than that, Miss Hall made the
a0pportune or inopportunc discovery
that the No. Z ditch, now the prop
*crty of the Irrigation District, was
4 outside of the easement therefor and
son her property. If the District de.
8ssres to have it remain there, then
4they must do certain things for Miss
Hall, so she SAYS in her commune
yeation to the board. These things
[are mere trifles, to be sure. They
'Smclude cementing the ditch from its
sghead to and along the property of
miss Hall 50 that it shall be water
4Eght and water may never sccp
through upon her property.
@g If the District shall at any future
q Fine wish to build lateral along
& Miss Halls property to serve one
OF her neighbors, then they must
n cement that and make it all snug
q ind watertight just like the other.
Il Miss Hall wishes Il bridge nice
& broad one Is feet wide with stately
4 approaches well graded and guarded.
8g Wants Road 'neverything
4 y The District must build this, or
pick up thehir old ditch and move
1t. Also, Miss Hall would like a
road, the same to be well graded and
4 always maintained. II is not stipu-
I Eted that it shall be paved because
Miss Hall wishes to be reasonable,
j however, she might ch"ngr her min
ard require that. Anyway, there
4 qkust be It road or the District must
$eSt their ditch off of her land. All
these things are set out in rather
ponderous phrasing in Miss Hall S
i Communication.
s,The District declines. Perhaps if
She had not been lady she might
1 have been recommended 10 warmer
CLIMATES than Imperial. 1t may be
4 chat through error the canal of No.
I, now the District. is on Miss Halls
4 property; but if so District directors
/ say II has been there moro than five
years IN constant and unopposed us
age. That gives II title, according
g law, as good as an easement. The
District does not need to dickcr
i Vith Miss Hall, if their understand
nig of the matter is correct, and
tey think it is. Now the directors
are getting cross. If MISC Hall
thsrmcs into the District, they say
1lat she mrst come with clcqr haads.
willing TO come in on .he same terms
as everyone else, suggesting nothing
rough and un'alvl'kc such as NOV
ing canals, The District will hot
move any canals at all and if Miss
Hall joins the family she must pay
he costs and say ''plcase, y so there!
WAIT my mn AuN1rr~