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Show Titpy havp water mattors on a solcn-tlfio solcn-tlfio basis In Beyler County, it mado us nlmost turn grppn with etvy tq rpad tltprepqrtof the water commllonoi" of that country as. puhllehoil in the lloaper. you pan road there a statement state-ment of all tl)o wator that has bon used dqrlng tho irrigatlqq teasoq of 1003 f rqn) whatsourcp it has been taken and to what cpmpany oy oombnatlop it has been distr(butp4. It appears from the report that the irrigators of that scc tlon havo ptod during tho poriqd reported, repor-ted, ono billion, spvep h"drod nnd thirty nlnp million, and soven hundred thousand second feet of water, and of this quantity twonty plght million Beyon hundred and twonty thousand seopnd feet, has boon drawn from their Ottor Crock llctprrolr. Wo aro not famllllar with tho situation thero, as regards thp wator spply( but t up-peara up-peara rpasqnahlo to suppose that the most pf the water that thoy get from the roservplr would be wastod If It were not for that improvement, as it would doubtless pome down at a time whep they had plenty of water from pther sources. Jt Is greatly to bo regretted that wooannot unite our water inter? ests, and go to work unitedly to savp this most important of all souroes of wealth, There can bo no d,oubt that our water shed fprnlshos sufficient water to nearly double tho servlco that wo get from it If we woqld only pom blno to put It to the best posslblo uso. In our oaso wo havo not oven got a measurement of tho water that is taken out of the creek into tho various dltohes. We need, soqo ono to load out in those matters, and wo need n community that would follow aitoli a loader. |