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Show BENEFICIAL USE y One of the metropolitan'- dallies of the state recently hiid thls' to say: "The courts of- the state '-have' frequently fre-quently held -that be'n'eflcial-' use must be shown before an apprdp'ri'a'tbr can use water at all." The sentiment Is strongly and -surely settling toward one- solution no further' speculation ' in water. "It must 'be put' 'to'' bene--flcial use or revert-to the 'state' whiqh . owns it. ' '-' ' :" , There are too many needy farm.) ers, farmers crying for that water, to have curbstone brokers buy it for spec, who never-turned a. furrow nor never will. -And our lawmakers know, the. intent of . the spirit and letter let-ter of the law. which they will follow henecforth. Knuckles willTie rapped in court. The sentiment is unanlm- -ous that it be so. |