This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3435 Message Board Post: Fruitland Banner Fruitland, Idaho Friday, April 30, 1915 Object to Free Use Of Water From Farmer's Ditch Some of the water users in the Emmett district have been getting water from the Farmers' ditch ever since it was built in 1893 and have paid no water tax, claiming that the right to do this had been given them. Others who had to pay for water registered a kick. Monday the Wheel and Top committee went to Emmett and investigated the matter and as a result the parties were asked to show proof of their claim to free water, being unable to do this the committee ordered them to pay the same rates as other stockholders or quit using the water.