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value; also to see if the farmers will be willing to accept 

 them. If it is a good thing we want it, but if it is not going 

 to be accepted by the agricultural interests of this state or 

 any other state like California, Idaho or Utah, then it will 

 be a hard proposition, and we will not accomplish anything. 



Mr. Schaeffle : We are very greatly interested in Cali- 

 fornia in the screening of ditches, but I believe it would be 

 unwise for any society such as this to recommend one screen 

 or any one device to the exclusion of any other device. I 

 think it is a matter of bad policy and very unsafe. 



Mr. Franklin Spencer, Jr., Provo, Utah: I am inter- 

 ested financially in both of these screens, but I do not come 

 to this meeting with any intention of having either screen 

 recommended above the other. The question is, do the 

 states that have irrigation want their streams screened so 

 as not to obstruct the flow of water to the farmer, and at the 

 same time keep the fish in the channels where they belong? 

 T think it should be the concensus of opinion of this com- 

 mittee, if it is appointed, to recommend the use of a screen 

 that will give the irrigator his water without obstructing 

 the stream, and keep the fish in their proper channels. I 

 believe either of the screens will do that. 



Mr. Thomson moved that a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to examine the screens on exhibition and report the 

 style deemed best. Seconded by Mr. Spencer. 



The vote was taken and apparently carried. 



Mr. Evans: I call for a division. 



Mr. Schaeffle: Is not the Society on record as being 

 in favor of the installation of screens everywhere, where 

 practical screens can be installed? 



President : The Society is in favor of it, but when a 

 motion is made and seconded the chair must put it. 



Division was taken and the President declared the motion 

 to be lost. 



President : We have with us a gentleman we would like 

 very much to hear from — Judge Beaman, of Denver, a man 



