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<br />'"'"il <br /> <br />, .... <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-37- <br />For example, we learned that Noble Higbee (Lower Platte and <br />Beaver) had leased two Jackson Lake rights to Robert Kula (Bijou) <br />in the summer o:f 1966. The "water order", both original and <br />carbon copy, was in the Bijou files, dated August 8, 1966. It <br />was not signed by Higbee, but was signed "Noble Higbee by J. L. <br />Samples." (The original water order, signed by Higbee, had been <br />delivered by John L. Samples to the Weldon Valley Ditch Company, <br />in connection with another transaction). The water order was <br />addressed to the "Morgan Reservoir Company", which was probably <br />intended to mean the Jackson Lake Reservoir Company, which is <br />controlled by the Fort Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company. <br />However, no copy of this water order was ever given to the Fort <br />Morgan Reservoir and Irrigation Company or to the Jackson Lake <br />Reservoir Company. <br />From this water order John W. "Bill" Samples had posted a <br />credit for 10.2 "day-feet" of water (20.4 acre-feet) to Robert <br />Kula's account. The two rights were worth 32.0 acre-feet on the <br />books o:f the Jackson Lake Reservoir Company. The difference may <br />represent the Bijou Canal shrinkage. <br />(It should be noted that neither the Bijou books nor the <br />Jackson Lake books indicated any runs of Jackson Lake water for <br />the Bijou Canal in 1966. Nevertheless, the Bijou books show that <br />Kula received the full 10.2 "chy-feet" he leased :from Higbee), <br />John W. "Bill" Samples stated that previous secretaries of <br />the Bijou system had made a charge to the farmers for handling <br />such transfers, but that he had put a stop to the practice. He <br />claimed to know nothing whatsoever about any part played in these <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WOODWARD.CLYDE.SHERARD AND ASSOCIATES <br />