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<br /> <br />-28- <br />III-D, THE HENRY BAUMGARTNER EPISODE <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />l, Allegations <br />We investigated allegations that John L, Samples had bought <br />water from, or sold water for, Henry Baumgartner. Baumgartner <br />was asked to sign a blank as~ignment form (water transfer order ?); <br />he thought he was selling one-half of his water. Later he dis- <br />covered that Samples had sold all of his water and had filled in <br />the blank assignment for the full amount. <br />2. Conclusions - None, <br />3. Investigation <br />We asked Cecil Osborne about the Baumgartner episode, He <br />stated that this involved another farmer named Ted Duncan. Duncan <br />owned four "private" Riverside Company rights and Baumgartner owned <br />80 Riverside "district acre" rights, Baumgartner has a pump. <br />Duncan came by thu Riverside office and said that he had traded <br />threu of his "private rights" (2l acre-feet of water) to <br />Baumgartner for 80 Riverside "district rights" owned by Baumgartner <br />(56 acre-feet). (The acre-feet set out above are the amounts <br />which were available in the year in question for private rights <br />and district acre rights.) Baumgartner later came in the office <br />and signed the transfer order for the trade. In effect what they <br />had done was to change carrier ditches for their water. <br />Baumgartner is unable to run his distriet water in the Deuel <br />and Snyder Ditch, under which his land is located. Although he <br />can, however, run private rigbts. This is because of the rules <br />restricting the use of district water outside the district boun- <br />daries. The result of the trade was that Baumgartner got three <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WQOO\\ARD,Ct.YDE.SH[RARD AND ....SSQCIATfS <br /> <br />j <br />