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<br />,~~~:..rir; <br /> <br /> <br />;.f <br /> <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-45- <br />Superintendent) and water to be released to farmers who take it <br />from the outlet canal (which is ordered by the farmers themselves) <br />Doney receives all of his instructions to release water from <br />Jackson Lake Reservoir from John L. Samples and not from his <br />employer, the Jackson Lake Reservoir Company. Samples calls him <br />every other day during the irrigating season and tells him how <br />much water to release during the ensuing 48-hour period, and for <br />what ditches the water is to be released. Doney said that he need <br />this information for two purposes: (a) so he can make proper <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />charg'es on his .books, and (b) so that he can release the water for <br />each particular ditch with the correct "lead time".. For example, <br />it apparently takes 22 hours for water released from Jackson Lake <br />Reservoir to reach the Upper Platte and Beaver Canal and 46 hours <br />for water to reach the Lower Platte and Beaver Canal and the Deuel <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />and Snyder Ditch. <br />We have been unable to reconcile this story with the actual <br />records, however, apparently because of the complicated reservoir <br />excha,nges made each summer in Water District No. 1 under John L. <br />Samples' direction. Water which is released for a certain ditch <br />may not be picked up by that ditch at all, but by some other <br />ditch. As just one example, we have learned that 33-1/6 Jackson <br />Lake Reservoir rights were leased (primarily by farmers under the <br />Lower Platte and Beaver Canal) to farmers under the Weldon Valley <br />Ditch in the summer of 1966. There are, however, no records of <br />the Jackson Lake Reservoir Company reflecting this transaction <br />or showing that any water was released at all for the Weldon Valley <br />Ditch. <br />As another example, we have learned that Robert KUla (Bijou <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WOODWARD.CLYOE.SHERARD AND ASSOCIATES <br />