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company. and I bun-upon the tiucuseion began, which wan carried on liy Messrs. W. N. Haynes. C. F. Kline, A. M. Cree. Thomas (Jibb, A. Ilall. J. S. Truscott. Towner Savage. S. Uordon. A. Millard, Mr. Kirehcr. H. Weaver and others. In an informal way the subject was quite thoroughly discussed. and it appearing from the drift of the arguments presented that the greatest benefit to the community at large could be most quickly attained by the sale of water rights, a motion prevailed that it was the sense of the citizens’ meeting then assendted that this policy should be adopted by the ditch company. This motion received the unanimous support of the meeting, and was accepted by the company as expressing a carefully digested opinion.The citizens’ meeting then adjourned, and was followed by a meeting of the stockholders of the ditch company, at which a resolution was passed anthoriz-ing the trustees to follow out the policy indicated at the citizens’ meeting, and later the trustees held a session and acted upon the instructions so fur aw possible by appointing a committee consisting of \V. \ Haones and M. Kircher to call upoD everyImdy interested for the purpose of auguring participation in the benefits to lie derived from the ditch, either by the purchase of water lightsor stock in the ditch.The situation, as gathered Ironi the stateuieut made by Supt. Haynes and others connected with the ditch enterprise, is simply this: With a comparatively small amount of work in widening the canal at pointB where it chokes now and retards the flow, its capacity can be increased to the volume necessary to supply all who have legal claims upon it, and unless the means for more extensive work »• forthcoming, thin is all that will be don? this fall, but it is the desire of the company to so enlarge the canal tbiB fall, tor during next season if a dredge is used) that there will be water for all. even though every acre tributary to it should be put under cultivation. This means an enlargement to four or five time the preeeut capacity of the ditch, and such a work can only be undertaken with money.It was suggested by one speaker that he was willing to put in a team or two on the work and take his pay in water, which would bp all well enough if such a programme could be made general all along the line and at the right time, but it will readily be Been, that in a work of such magnitude as is here contemplated, the desultory work of a team or two here and there at odd intervals would be of
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The Yellowstone Journal
Miles City, Montana, US
Mon, Oct 30, 1893
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