Report of Proceedings of the Second State Irrigation Convention Held at Helena, Montana, February 9 and 10, 1893; With Reports of the State of Irrigation in Several Counties - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... their votes, and especially that portion of the population that controls elections in political matters, and they say, let us go and vote those bonds and after the good times we can go to some other place and let the taxpayers take care of themselves. Gentlemen, I am done for the present. W. F. Parker: Mr. Chairman: I felt some little hesitancy about saying anything here this evening, but as this subject has drifted some beyond the discussion of this bill and has involved to some extent the matter of discussion as to whether the State of Montana should attempt to control the water by a general provision of law, I would ike to hear from these farmers upon one subject which has not been spoken of. Mr. Burton, in his water right, takes up all of the water of the Teton. Now, is it the deternination of this body and of the State of Montana that there shall never be constructed above Mr. Burton's head-gate a means that shall conserve there the water during the high portion to be conserved there until, say, the months of July and August. Now, suppose the stream of the Teton shall carry io.ooo-inches of water, Mr. Burton, in filing his water right, takes nearly all the water of the stream, what right have the men or corporations to go above Mr. Burton's ditches and take the water? Mr. Burton will come in and say that he is entitled to have 20,000 inches of that water, if there is 20,000 inches. If the men shall have no right to the water that flows down there, then you forever prohibit any person from taking it. You give to Mr. Burton a water right that is very valucable. It is this subject of building reservoirs for holding water when it is going to waste until such a time when it shall become necessary in the cultivation of crops. I simply make this as a sugges...

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