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Show CONDITIONS AT ABRAHAM. Since tbe opening of the Irrigation leason there have been loud coni-!alnts coni-!alnts from the farmers of Abraham , iver the lack of water. Last Friday . i mass meeting was held to see if i oiiio relief cannot be obtained. If not itany farmers will lose their crops. ; There are 13,000 shares of water ( inder the Abraham project which Is : upposfd to furnish 27 Inches to 13,000 cres of land. 'There Is less than 3,000 , ores under cultivation and farmers , annot obtain enough water for this , mount. For instance Nor man Bliss , as 290 shares of wster, but he was , 0 acres short on bis first watering. , i. W. Reld haa 120 shares but be as had only enough water for 27 ( cres since the season began. O. M. 'ullmer has grain In for which he , ever bas been able to get water. Ither farmers have got grain In for , rhlch they never have been able to ( et water, and some have stopped nwlng because there seems no prob- t blllty of getting water for It. The , lii kman ranch has X0 shares but only , srt of the land has been wstered. t '. M. Wilson, formerly had four or y ve streams for his big ranch but ow he bas only two and that for so e lort a time that he will not be able , raise half a crop. From all re- b arts It seems that the only fanners 0 ho are able to get enough water are e tose who own severs! times as many . is re of water as they have acres ' land. The question the farmers e aklng Is. who Is getting the ater belonging to Abraham? Have ttlers been decoyed Into buying land 1 dry ditches? If Abraham Is en-lied en-lied to 13.000 shares of water why mnot the farmers get enough wster d r one-eighth of the land? j. A committee hss been appointedf id a petition is being circulated ask- g for an Investigate nand the mat- y r will be brought before the proper n ithorltlt's. Is i .. |
