| Show RESERVOIR gos there Is no little disinclination on the part 0 of property owners who are to be benefited by the building of the proposed dam in ia devils gate to attach their names to the wi water contract which agents of the promoters are passing around to get signers it is claimed by some that the wh whole ole scheme savors of graft in that the cost of building the dam will be approximately and the revenues irom from the sale of water for one thousand acres 0 of land at per acre totals on top ot of this the contract calls for an additional payment by the I 1 water purchaser of per acre per annum for ten years which Is top to be use used d for maintaining the dam and canals and also for taking care of all overhead expenses of the company the property owners will thus pay practically the entire cost of the constructing of the dam and canals in this acre assessment and it is declared that the expense of maintaining the project will be practically nil so the annual acre assessment will go to pay salaries to officials who have practically anything to do in another anoche paragraph of the contract it is averred that the property owners bind themselves to t forfeit not only their water right by failure to comply with the terms of the contract but they mortgage their land and stand to lose every everything Wing it they should tall fall to meet the requirements of the ag reemt one gentleman who went over the doci diment carefully stated that lehe lelie des ires water and Is ready to purchase water lie he cannot accept the burden which ih in ltv torm form wa wa r places upon every signer tor for the he reason that the property owner is not safeguarded in the least while every interest of the promoters Is carefully provided for the suggestion has been made that all the property owners who come under the scope of this proposed irrigation project get together and go over tile the contract with an attorney at law in order that its full legal meaning might be thoroughly understood and then every man should stand together in demanding such terms as will be fair and just to all concerned one prominent man has suggested that the property owners can better afford to form a joint company and put in the reservoir themselves than tie up with tile contract contri ct tile present promoters are offering it is very probable that a meeting will be called of the property owners interested and the matter gone over it will be remembered that the promoters have no idea of oc beginning operations on oil the project until they have signed up sul sufficient clent acreage to justify them and it is pointed out oat that the very first clause of the contract is misleading in that it states that the agreement entered into is between john doe a property owner and samuel doe an agent of a proposed company to be organized for the purpose of constructing a reservoir and canals to impound and conduct water from devils gate to brigham city |
