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PREFERENTIAL RIGHTS. 



A . water company having water appropriated under 

 Const 1879, art. 14, 1, for sale, rental, or distribution, the 

 use of which is thereby declared to be a public use, cannot 

 confer any preferential right on one consumer over another 

 to the use of any part of its water. Leavitt v. Lassen Irri- 

 gation Co. Supreme Court of California. 106 Pacific 404. 



NAVIGABLE WATERS. 



In an action by an abutting landowner to restrain the 

 maintenance of a dam to create artificial freshets for float- 

 ing logs, it is no defense that this method of floating the logs 

 is less injurious to plaintiff's land than to float them with- 

 out thus raising the water. Flinn v. Vaughn. Supreme Court 

 of Oregon. 106 Pacific 642. 



IRRIGATION CONTRACTS. 



Private contracts between an Idaho irrigation company 

 and landowners, granting water rights at fixed prices, made 

 in good faith prior to Act Idaho March 7, 1895 (Acts 1895, 

 p. 174), enacted pursuant to article 15 of the state Consti- 

 tution, which contracts were valid when made, were not 

 affected by such act or subsequent legislation, and remain 

 valid and enforceable. Boise City Irrigation & Land Co. v. 

 Turner. U. S. Circuit Court, District of Idaho. 176 Federal 

 373. 



RIGHT TO MAINTAIN IRRIGATION DITCH. 



Where defendant had owned, maintained, and used an 

 irrigation ditch over the premises in controversy for a period 

 longer than the statute of limitations prior to plaintiff's oc- 

 cupancy, defendant could .maintain the ditch in its present 

 location and have water flow through the same to the extent 

 of its capacity or in the volume contained in the ditch dur- 

 ing the years defendant used it.Malmstrom v. People's Drain 

 Ditch Co. Supreme Court of Nevada. 107 Pacific 98. - 



SAMSON TURBINE 



When the PUMP cannot be direct connected to 

 the turbine shaft, the power is usually trans- 

 mitted by gears, shafting, etc. On account of 

 the HIGH SPEED of the SAMSON, for a given 

 power, lighter and consequently CHEAPER 

 transmission machinery can be used. 



JAMES LEFFEL & CO, 



Springfield, Ohio, U. S. A. 



316 Lagonda Street 



TheLittle Roadster Grader andDit cher 



A New, Light Ditch Plowing Machine, 



Especially Designed for Cutting Small 



Laterals on Irrigated Farms, and 



Ditching and Grading Roads. 



This type of machine cuts ditches for 

 less money than any other tool or ma- 

 chinery, because it plows the dirt out of 

 the ditch with one continuous motion, 

 whereas all other ditching machinery or 

 appliances must pick the dirt up and 

 lift it out of the ditch and then dump it. 



The Little Roadster is a practical 

 plowing machine, being built with ad- 

 justable leaning wheels or rolling land- 

 sides which counteract the side pressure 

 of the earth on the mold, the same 

 leaning wheel principle which is used in 

 the sulky plow. 



It is made almost entirely of wrought 

 steel and the few castings that are used 

 are malleable and all parts are put to- 

 gether so far as possible with hot driven 

 rivets, so that while it is a light machine 

 weighing about eleven hundred pounds, 

 it is exceptionally strong and rigid. It 

 is designed primarily for two horses, al- 

 though four may be used. 



EVERY IRRIGATED RANCH OR FARM NEEDS ONE OR MORE OF THESE MACHINES. IT WILL QUICKLY 

 PAY FOR ITSELF. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE FOLDER AND LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT 



J. D. ADAMS & COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



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