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The Beatrice Daily Express
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
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Elkhorn Irrigation Company files contest with state board of irrigation in Lincoln against Frank M. Tyrrell, Anna M. Huddleson, and O'Neill Milling Company over water rights to irrigation ditch on Elkhorn River, claiming prior construction and operation.
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Litigation Over the Irrigation Ditch on the Elkhorn River.
LINCOLN, Jan. 20.-A contest was filed with the state board of irrigation by the Elkhorn Irrigation company against Frank M. Tyrrell, Anna M. Huddleson and the O'Neill Milling company of O'Neill, Holt county. As grounds of the contest, the contestants set up that they were the first and only people to build an irrigation ditch on the Elkhorn river. In May, 1894, they began their ditch and completed it in 1895, expending $19,000. Subsequently they expended $2,000 more in laterals, and they have had the ditch in operation ever since. The contestees, on the other hand, have accomplished practically nothing aside from building a flouring mill, which burned down, and digging a ditch which they afterward sold to contestants. The board is asked to confirm the right of the irrigation company.
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Lincoln
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Jan. 20.
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the board is asked to confirm the right of the irrigation company.
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A contest was filed with the state board of irrigation by the Elkhorn Irrigation company against Frank M. Tyrrell, Anna M. Huddleson and the O'Neill Milling company of O'Neill, Holt county. As grounds of the contest, the contestants set up that they were the first and only people to build an irrigation ditch on the Elkhorn river. In May, 1894, they began their ditch and completed it in 1895, expending $19,000. Subsequently they expended $2,000 more in laterals, and they have had the ditch in operation ever since. The contestees, on the other hand, have accomplished practically nothing aside from building a flouring mill, which burned down, and digging a ditch which they afterward sold to contestants.