Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-29 | Page 5 | Water Storage Rule Condemned

WATER STORAGE RULE CONDEMNED BOISE Ida July 29 By 29 By The Associated Press The Press The Individual storage rule of the Salmon River Rl Canal company is contrary to public policy the Idaho supreme court held Thursday In a decision In the suit brought by H. H Ola against the com com- company pany The rule proves that where there a land landowner landowner owner falls fails to make use of all the storage water allotted to his land in any given year he may carry carryover over this water and be entitled to that much more the following follo year The courts court's decision holds that no noland noland noland land owner acquires a property right In to water in the sense that he actually owns the corpus of the water merely that he is entitled to as much water as he be needs up to his allotment Per Per- Permission Permission mission to carry over the water in inthis Inthis inthis this manner the court contends opens the way to abuses greater than thon any possible benefit arising from the rule