The Struggle for Water in the Hanford Project

H. Alexander Smith of Colorado Springs, legal and otherwise representative of the Henry K. T. Lyons interests, which now include the old Hanford project, was in the valley this week, going over the company’s holdings. While here, Mr. Smith is reported to have said that if the landowners under the project would get together and decide on some definite plan of settlement of the water question, his company would give it serious consideration. During the past two or three months, there has been a tendency on the part of all the interests in the valley to get together and settle this question once and for all. This movement, while an unconscious one, has been nevertheless definite and argues well for a final determination of the question. All hands are beginning to realize that court decisions and legal victories, while costly, are not worth much unless both sides are satisfied, which is seldom the case. And this water question, like a great many others, will be settled finally only when a plan is arrived at that will be beneficial and profitable to both sides.