Supervisors Fix Irrigation Water Rates After Bitter Fight
After a two-week battle, San Diego County officials sided with ranchers over a land company that had tried to nearly double irrigation water rates — a forgotten local skirmish over who controls water in the arid West.
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Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Page 2
1 min readThe supervisors of San Diego county, after a two-weeks' bitter struggle of the contesting parties, have fixed the rates to be charged irrigators under the water system of the San Diego Land and Town company at $3.50 per acre per year. This is a substantial victory for the ranchers, as the company recently increased the rates to $7. The ranchers contended for the former rate, and it is now granted. The case will be appealed by the company.
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