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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1911)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1911 T Ml ' fl. .'.'.. 7.. ......... -VJ ' WEEKLY KOGl'B RIVER COURIER 'www ii'! hi 'n'nS i'hihiIiiiiii inimnAw "WW"!! II1I,IIU1M.I t o no Let us make this irrigation week by adjusting matters so that everybody can be at work-on the dam-on the ditches-in the orchards and fields It will keep the merchants busy supplying the demands on them for goods. We have a proposition before the Josephine County Irrigation and Power company. We ask that it be accept ed or rejected. This proposition was made at the sug gestion of Mr. II. L. Qilkey, after an interview at which time we insisted that some decisive action be taken, so that t the ditches could be extended this year. j We do not pretend to tell the Josephine County Irriga tion and Power company how to run its business, but is it is a well known fact that it has assumed the role of guar dian for the farmers and the people on all irrigation mat ters. We have no desire to interfere with the part the local company is taking in irrigation matters, except to demand action, but we do want to make the best possible use of our large investment without trespassing on the rights of others, and shall insist that ours be respected. An analysis of the situation shows that the principal properties of the Josephine County Irrigation and Power company and the Golden Drift Mining company arc link ed together by a contract, and if some amicable business arrangement is not worked out it will require a decree of the court to determine relations under the existing con tract and whether it shall be carried out by both parties, or whether the Golden Drift shall go ahead alone. We shall insist that this situation be cleared up at this time, so that the ditches can be extended this season. The present system of ditches only cover a small amount of the land and there is much more land that is easily irrigated and which can be irrigated this year if we make use of our time. Many investments in land have been made on the strength of this combination; land has been cleared, fenced and prepared for irrigation; business men have bought ir rigation stock, and these people are representative of a large number of our people and are really that part of the public that is interested in irrigation. We have offered and shown the public an easy method of having a $400,000.00 irrigation system to start with this year, and we will make it one of the best in the country. We are prepared to go ahead now and furnish water this season, whether we have one customer or one thousand. Jt is for the Josephine County Irrigation and Power com pany to say whether it shall be done with limited ditch facilities or with the ditches extended. , ; ,, , The plaintiffs in the Golden Drift litigation are going ahead with the work at the Golden Drift dam as fast as possible. The Chicago-Rogue River company, as owner of Golden Drift stock, has bought and will continue to buy receiver's certificates to help these plaintiffs pay for the work, which is for the purpose, among other reasons, of putting the receiver of the Golden Drift in a position to make good to the people its contract to supply water for irrigation. The Golden Drift is a public service corporation, and we, as stoekholdcrs, purpose it. shall make good. We re spectfully ask tlx; Josephine County Irrigation and Power eonipany to. make good, and assure the public of that fact without more delay. Everybody under the present system of ditches will have water this year. Those who are not under any ditch had better let it be known now that they want water this year while there is still time to dig the ditches. The Ciiicagi r iwwc km v ci GEO. E. SANDERS, Agent m 'iw . PAGE SEVEN i J. V I' S 3
