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<br />f <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-84- <br />Osborne stated that early in the year, before major irriga- <br />tion commences, all rights in the reservoirs are treated-as ap- <br />proximately equal in order to facilitate ac~ounting and explana- <br />tions to farmers of the area. This would be done even though <br />Prewitt and Riverside Reservoirs might leak a great deal more <br />than Jackson Lake Reservoir; and, water rights in the Riverside, <br />for example, might be worth considerably less than a right in <br />Jackson Lake toward the latter part of the summer due to seepage <br />and evaporation losses. OSborne said that if each reservoir right <br />were not considered equal, John L. Samples would "have trouble <br />balancing out his books" on the eXChanges. We learned in the <br />course of the investigation that although John L. Samples had ap- <br />parently treated all reservoir rights as being equal to 15 acre- <br />feet per right in 1966 for purposes of the various trade, leases, <br />and exchanges, the actual figures shown by the company books were <br />as follows: <br />Riverside Reservoir 12 acre-feet <br />Empire Reservoir 6.4 acre-feet <br />Jackson Lake Reservoir 16 acre-feet <br />Prewitt Reservoir 16 acre-feet. <br />When demands for reservoir water begin to be made by the <br />farmers each summer, water is first run out of Prewitt Reservoir. <br />This means that even though farmers might be calling Riverside, <br />Jackson Lake, Prewitt, or other rights, all of this water would <br />be run out of Prewitt Reservoir but charged to the reservoirs in <br />which the farmers actually own their rights. As soon as Prewitt <br />Reservoir has been run dry, then the water is run in the order in <br />which they leak so that the leakiest reservoirs are emptied first, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. . <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />WOOOWAR'O.CLYDE.SHfRilRD AND ASSOCIATES <br />