Report Of The Board Of Commissioners Of The West Side Irrigation District

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332032112
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Board of Commissioners of the West Side Irrigation District written by UNKNOWN. AUTHOR and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Board of Commissioners of the West Side Irrigation District: Submitted to His Excellency William Irwin, Governor of the State of California, in Accordance With the Provisions of the Act of the Legislature Creating Said District, Approved March 3d, 1876 Sec. 4. The said Commissioners provided for in this Act may employ one chief engineer and such additional surveyors, draughtsmen, and other assistants as they may deem necessary, who shall each be paid a reasonable compensation, to be agreed upon by them and the Commissioners. Sec. 5. The said Commissioners, before making their report, must call in for consultation some member of the United States Engineer Corps, or if none can be obtained, then some other competent engineer, and must submit to him the maps and charts made, and may pay him a reasonable compensation for his services. Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. The first meeting of the Commissioners was held in Grayson on the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, when an organization was effected by the election of the Hon. J. R. McDonald, of Grayson, as President. A. C. Lander, of Grayson, was appointed Secretary, and William Hammond Hall, of San Francisco, was appointed Chief Engineer, to aid the Commission in making the examinations and surveys provided for in the Act. In compliance with the provisions of section five of the Act, the Commissioners invited General B. S. Alexander, of the United States Engineer Corps, to act as consulting engineer, and although the Commissioners could promise him no remuneration for his services, except a promise to pay, he very generously accepted the invitation so to act, and the Commissioners take this opportunity to testify their appreciation of his valuable services. As the Legislature failed to provide the necessary funds to carry out the requirements of the Act, the Commissioners made the following appeal to the residents and property-owners in the district: "It is estimated that twenty-five thousand dollars will be required for this purpose. We have carefully considered the questions presented by this state of affairs, and the following are the conclusions at which we have arrived, and in which we ask your concurrence: We are unable, of course, ourselves to furnish the money needed, nor can we give any personal guarantee for its repayment to those whose public spirit may prompt them to advance it. We are satisfied, however, that the alternative presented to the people of this district is the raising of said amount by voluntary subscription, at the cost of whatever temporary inconvenience it may entail, or the relinquishment of as bright a future as ever stimulated a community to energetic, immediate, and public-spirited efforts. That by our sturdy and combined efforts we can overcome the single obstacle which remains in the way of accomplishment of the beneficent purposes of the original Act. Because, if the scheme for which we have worked so hard already should prove feasible, and shall be carried out, there is no possible doubt that the result will be to substitute for poverty and a precarious subsistence, wealth and assured prosperity and abundance - for a thinly-inhabited, sterile, and uninviting country, a populous, productive, fruitful, and attractive land. Is not so great a prize well worth so small an effort? And even should the survey demonstrate that our plan is impracticable, is it not well that we should know it now? And if we must abandon the district and seek other homes, do so at once, without further waste of time and further expenditure in the attempt to do what cannot be done." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com