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<br />f <br /> <br />, <br />! <br /> <br />-35- <br /> <br />The Bijou Irrigation Company is a mutual non-profit irriga- <br /> <br />tion company, which has 4,000 shares of stock outstanding, of <br /> <br />which 2,894 are owned by the District. The Board of Directors <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />of the Company consists of the three District Directors, Reuben <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Peif, Tom Cooper, and William Ambrose, plus Henry Webber and Jesse <br /> <br />Snodgrass, who are elected by the District Board because of its <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />stock control. <br /> <br />There are a few persons in the Green City area who own stock <br /> <br />in the Bijou Company and who take their Company water from the <br /> <br />Bijou Canal, upstream from the Empire Reservoir outlet. All <br />other Bijou Company stockholders are located under the Bijou Canal <br /> <br />downstream from the Empire Reservoir outlet, except for one man, <br /> <br />Marvin Etchison. Etchison is located under the Weldon Valley <br /> <br />Ditch. He "wanted some Bijou Company stock so he could have a <br /> <br />vote in the Company." The stock was sold to him on a "gentleman's <br /> <br />agreement" and the condition that it would carry no water rights. <br /> <br />(Interview, John W. "Bill" Samples). <br /> <br />Although all Bijou Company stockholders (except Etchison) <br /> <br />are located under the Bijou Canal, several are not located within <br /> <br />the boundaries of the Bijou District. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Bijou system maintains an elaborate set of records, under <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />the direction of John W. "Bill" Samples. Under this bookkeeping <br /> <br />arrangement, each farmer is credited with District and Company <br /> <br />water to which he is entitled, plus any water rights he has <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />rented from othe~s. He is debited with any water rights he has <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />leased out to others. As water is run to him during the season <br /> <br />a record is kept of the amount run to him each day until he has <br /> <br />exhausted his credits. Thus, a farmer can always tell from the <br /> <br />WOODWARD.CLYDE.SHERARD AND ASSOCIATES <br />