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THE U. S. RECLAMATION DEPARTMENT MUST 

 ANSWER THIS QUESTION. 



BURLEY (IDAHO) BULLETIN. 



The citizen locators on the south side of Snake 

 Eiver, in the Minidoka reclamation project, Cassia 

 County, Idaho, are praying for an answer to a very 

 civil question. In the name of humanity, this is a 

 righteous one and demands an answer, and soon: 



When will the settlers on the south side receive 

 water? This question is asked in a respectful and 

 courteous manner. If the Eeclamation Service does not 

 answer, it is unfair and brutal treatment of 500 Amer- 

 ican citizens who with their wives and babies are doing 

 time on arid homesteads, hoping against hope. Are 

 they not entitled to an answer to this question, which 

 is bread and butter to them? If some of these govern- 

 ment officials who are living on the fat of the land 

 had to spend a month on one of these arid ranches, 

 and be kept on the rack as to when water would be 

 given them, and when they wanted a drink of water had 

 to go miles for it, their howls would make a coyote 

 ashamed of himself. The Boise-Payette project is 

 hanging fire, condemnation proceedings are talked of. 

 In the writer's opinion this is a bluff. The Beclama- 

 oitn Department will be chary of such procedure. 

 If matters are not shaped up right by the time Congress 

 convenes there will be stunts doing. What is the mat- 

 ter with returning to the Minidoka project the $1,300,- 

 000 diverted from said project and carrying out the 

 original Minidoka project in its entirety and do busi- 

 ness, while the Eeclamation Department and the citi- 

 zens of the Payette-Boise project are scrapping? 



Was it not the intent of the Government Eeclama- 

 tion Act to reclaim desert government lands and not 

 desert lands in private ownership ? If the Eeclamation 

 Department does not intend to reclaim the lands on 

 the south side of the Minidoka project within a rea- 

 sonable time; if it will surrender the south side and 

 give a strong company the right to construct the south 

 side system, giving said company the water located 

 by the Eeclamation Department, this company will pay 

 its proportion of all expenses and do business on its 

 own account. 



In pain words, if the reclamation department does 

 not intend hatching all the eggs in the Minidoka pro- 

 ject's nest, if it will abandon the south side eggs a new 

 nest will be built and a new hen go on. The Eeclama- 

 tion Service is again requested to answer the question : 

 When will the settlers on the south side receive water? 



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