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That this new dam will be built seems to us a certainty. The 

 affairs of the Bear Valley company must be straightened out freed 

 from all legal tangles and troubles and then our people can and 

 probably will form a joint stock company, make the water appurte- 

 nant to, and impossible of dissociation from, the land, and then buy it 

 and finish the present incomplete system on the original plans. 

 Pumped water can never compete with gravity water, in either cost 

 or irrigation worth. The Bear Valley system will yet be completed 

 and owned by the people who use the water therefrom, and all specu- 

 lative private ownership will be absolutely eliminated. The 

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