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Show DRY GULCH AGAIN VOTES THEMSELVES OUT OF WATER In the annual election every stockholder who signed a proxy without knowing, has written the state engineer a letter which would go something like this: "Mr. State Engineer We have too much water during late July, August and September. We would make too much money if we could irrigate our grain the second or third time, and it would be too much work to irrigate our corn silage enough to get good yields. Besides it would be too much work and we would have to enlarge our silos. "Another thing, Mr. State Engineer, En-gineer, we don't raise enough hay to feed our livestock through the winter any year. Our beef cows are always hungry and skinny when spring comes. That other ton of alfalfa or grass hay we would get by using all of our summer water effectively would keep us from going to the UBIC in August and we certainly don't want to be irrigating our dry alfalfa alf-alfa or grass hay in October, so it could grow better next spring, cause then we couldn't go deer hunting or maybe pheasant hunting. hunt-ing. "Of course we have never used this water yet, and won't as long as we can sign proxies and let a few well-meaning, but often misguided, mis-guided, board of directors tell us what is good for us. "We know we only lose 30 to 50 of our water from late July to November from practically every ev-ery canal we have. "Mr. State Engineer, this is the water we beg you to take away from us because we we won't take steps to get the use of it. "There's one draw-back when you take this water, will you promise-the canal seepage, leaky or broken headgates won't seep or leak anymore, even though we will never get around to fixing them? "Mr. State Engineer, we the water users of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Ir-rigation Company need more high water during March, April and May so we can water-log another 1000 to 1500 acres so it has to go out of cultivation, or maybe we will just give it enough to let wire grass and broad leaf take over." Mr. Dry Gulch Water User The State Engineer realizes you do not mean what you are saying by your lack of interest in getting get-ting canal improvements made. Can you afford to lose your share of the quarter to half million mil-lion dollars worth of crops you could grow with the water you are not getting each year? I can't and neither can you. Class A, B, C and D water us-, ers lose the most without a water manager. Can you afford to let a few individuals do your thinking for you? Respectfully, Don Nielson |