Show ASK LAND LANA BOARD TO BUILD RESERVOIR Garfield Land Owners Want State to Install Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion System 1 MEMBERS TO INVESTIGATE Committee Goes GOCS Down n to Look Iol Into Advisability of nf Rebuilding Old JI Whether the tho state will aid ahl In rethe ro re- re building the old Hatchtown reservoir in Garfield count county will be upon the return of oC W. W J 1 Lynch WIL W V IL II Thain v. W. D. D Candland and amI II N N. Hayes members of the tIle state lan land board who left lert for that section yesterday yesterday yes yes- es tertIa morning to look over the Held field In order to arrive at an Intelligent decision de de- IC- IC in the matterS matter S 'S The was matter broached by a number number num nurn- ber of oC land owners of that count county who desire to have the tho state act Some SomeI I years cars a ago o a reservoir was built at HAtchtown but it was washed out F soon afterward and the land owners have never been able to rebuild it E The They now appeal to the state land board to rebuild the reservoir making possible the r reclamation of about 25 acres aCles of land which now is virtually virtually virtu virtu- nil ally useless on account of or lack of oC water A part of the tho land Is now held b by settlers and the plans of those su suggesting sug sug- gesting the proposition contemplate the state slate land board selecting the balance balance bal hal ance of the land for the state thus enabling It to retrieve e considerably on the amount that must necessarily be expended La v La PItH Provides ls for rOl It Chapter 59 69 of the stat stale laws pa passed ed at the tho last session of tho le legislature provides for the creation of oC a reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir fund the fund to consist of oC all nil money received from the sale ale of land selected under the grant to the state stale of acres neres of land for fOI this construction construction construction con con- of oC permanent water reservoirs reser reser- for or oi Irrl Irrigating purposes The state land board Is authorized to cause to be selected suitable sites Iles for fOI the construction of the reservoirs resel and to produce b by selection grant or purchase pur pur- chase the title to the land to be covered covered cowered cov cow ered by water stored In such reservoirs reser reser- volts oils and to cause to be he constructed suitable re reservoirs cl for or the purpose of storing water to be bc supplied to the state and other lands whenever in its judgment tho Interests of the state would be bO promoted thereby Just how the board beard can act ct In the matter is iH yet et a serious question and the legality of oC the act creating tho the provision may have to be he tested It would woul be Impossible for Cor the state to become a partner with the tile land 1 0 t l er ers era so 50 tho the question Is as to how the be adjusted matter mattel can Tho The boar board l can select the unoccupied jI I. I pled pied land and after arter the water is i available can appraise the land which r would be increased very m materially in value but Just how the other ther laud land landowners owners would be permitted to take advantage advantage advantage ad ad- vantage of th the tho matter is 13 a question that has not yet ret been settled It Is thought that perhaps a basis of oC equity could be bc arrived at athy by making making mak mak- ing the same mc arrangements that the government makes mal under tinder Its reclamation reclamation tion act Ml Ji ht Adopt AlOIt eminent Go Plan Phil lun l f Under the terms of or that act all land owners meet and form what Is known as the Water rater Users' Users tion All the members of the association association asso asso- elation transfer all water rights they 4 1 may possess In canals nas or irrigating t ditches to the association The association association asso asso- elation then enters Into an a agreement with the government under which all the water rights are transferred 1 to the government which thereupon builds the reservoir and sells tho the water to tho the water users in the ho proportion of af their original holdings payments forthe forthe for for- forthe the cost of or the works to bo be made in ten len equal installments If tho the state land hand board has tho the same ame authority it ii can build the reservoir with a surplus realized from Crom tho sale ale of oC selected elected lands land If a wat water users users users' a association is formed the state can then apportion 1 the cost of oC tho the reservoir lr among the theland land owners who can repay In ten l equal Installments the tho amount expended ex ex- d by the state The only other othel plan under which the hoard board could act would be to advance advance advance ad ad- vance the land owners the necessary al' al funds to complete completo the tho reservoir ju just justas t as it lends other state mone money The Tho matter will therefore rest In Int t abeyance until the return of or th the members of oC the board who will Probably probably in iii detail fo for fol forthe ably go into tho the matter the purpose O of oC getting the matter mailer fully straightened out |