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f . -34- . per acre-foot for each acre-foot of District water run through the Company-owned Bijou Canal. The Bijou District and Bijou Company have a rule against leasing out water rights under the system to farmers under other systems. However, there is no prohibition against bringin~ in water leased from other systems, nor against intra-system trans- fers. For this reason there is fairly brisk seasonal trading in water rights under the system. If outside rights are leased and brought in, the Bijou Company, which owns the canal, charges a "running fee" of $5.00 per right at the lower end of the system and $4.00 per right at the upper end. In addition, the Superintendent, Mr. Pughe, works out a system of "credits" each year with John L. Samples, the Water Commissioner, for placing a value in acre-feet (or "day- feet") on the different kinds of outside rights which may be leased and brought into the system. In 1966 these "credits" ran in the range of 6 to 12 acre-feet (3 to 6 "day-feet"). We were unable, in the time available, to correlate the "credits" under the Bijou system with the "values" placed on other water rights. For ex- ample, a Jackson Lake Reservoir right was worth 16 acre-feet dur- ing the 1966 season on the Jackson Lake Reservoir Company books, even though the Bijou system apparently only allowed a "credit" of about 10 acre-feet for the same right (5 "day-feet"). Empire Reservoir water is never exchanged to the river, but is always run for irrigation to farmers under the Bijou Canal. Water stored in the Company-owned Bijou No. 2 Reservoir, however, must always be used by exchange, because the reservoir is down- stream from the Bijou Canal. . , . . . . WOODWARO.CLYOE.$HERARO AND ASSOCIATES