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Show Irrigation Problem!. Thlrts armed furmts, In order to saso their crops, on I'rldos -nirched to iho huadgato of nn Irrigating ditch near llm-clerson, llm-clerson, Colo threatened tho keeper Willi di Bill and broke clown tho gute Details of tho eontioiirss that itilmlnnled In thin art of llolitue aro lucking II Is probu-bls probu-bls siifo lo lufvr, bowiter Hut tho did Ii was constructed hs some prliuli corira-tlon, corira-tlon, whleh allempled to Ireal the wntois of tho I'latto us Its private properts and to present Iholr uso bs those tu whom lliey were neesrs W'hllo oerpowerlng necessity mns bo hold In some inensuie to extuse-tliouBh It ennnot Justlfs lhe Isnless outbreak of the Henderson farmeis, such episodes cue this should Imiress upon tho people of Colorado the necessity or omdlfslng their Irrigation inws, nnd of bringing the watir suppls of their urld districts under public r nntl nl Had there been public control ot Ihe Henderson ditch. It Is tife tn say that there would hnso been no disputo nser water rates so acute as culmtnnP In lawlissness. Our arid regions present a problem whoso solution require- greut modification or tho o Ideas as to private property rlbhts whle h we. have so mutilated and rornmlatid fiom nh.il.nir of riwldomu In humid rtRlnns Whn. rubifnll is In su,ilinl r.r ngrl nil or tun laud, but wan r Is th, bils of lit lo inrmlt inen 1,. ..., .. . li,d 11,., ,1, nol 11s. ilisnlti Hi. thriiri tb si nlijei linns of Henri ifi .rs. nnd his follnwirs bus not bull fouti.l bs ilpirl duiKirous tu lln Stall Hut tn ., null in. i, h, arid re-glons lo possiss wat.r tin il 1 not use-Is use-Is more and worse Hi. 111 iirmlliliik Hum ihei? , rgh"1,:r';",,.T.rn' " ,m " n,"m ",,m lhe wisest proMslui or the Irrigation law recoils 1 uncled bv Cotigr.eH was Hint whbh d. 1 Inn ,1 ihe Umthial 11.. nf water the m.asiir. or right to imsi as wa lir Somi ofllii arid States, ImweMr nre lore far fiom this mile safe bi.ls for thilr Irrlgntlmi lews Those of Colorado haie been pronounced In Irrigation exports ns nmong tho or worst The llendirsim outbrenk slrlklngls lllustritts lhe need of rcrorm And In liw or the foot Hut Cobirn.l.i nnd olhir comonitiwenllhi iniitnln ll. sources of streams of Mtal Impnrlalice I.. Irr Ign Ion In nolgbb irlng Slut, s II is ,,il, nble Hint Hi,, ulllninte solution of the problriii will hale to hi round in niiloual rnnirol of the center sum Iv lhe po.sllilll tlnseif oppression In wnter innnop ill. s nro rn.rSr.,.:.'?N: ,'r,.,.:;:.,",,.-!tr,v,.,,v.,."r",,i than the 1111 1 Inn cull control the lent, r silp-r,lin'i'i'e,rnl silp-r,lin'i'i'e,rnl r''l"n","l" i-nfots nnd Justlco In all ciincirnod -I'ldcngn Inter Ocean |