Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . he information gained fromthem and others could not be included in this report, as complete histories of each oflie forty-nine ^^ right distiicts formed as the available data have made possible filed with the State Department of Kn-ineering at Sacramento. The writer hasiMen assisted troni time to time in gathering data about the old districts bv thefollowing: A\e]ls A. Ilutchins. K. ^l. Gidney. A. L. Cowell, Miss M. J. Shields, H. ;^layle, and Harry Barnes. Mr. We
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . he information gained fromthem and others could not be included in this report, as complete histories of each oflie forty-nine ^^ right distiicts formed as the available data have made possible filed with the State Department of Kn-ineering at Sacramento. The writer hasiMen assisted troni time to time in gathering data about the old districts bv thefollowing: A\e]ls A. Ilutchins. K. ^l. Gidney. A. L. Cowell, Miss M. J. Shields, H. ;^layle, and Harry Barnes. Mr. Wells A. Ilutchins has also assisted materially inreviewing court decisions affecting irrigation districts, and the irrigation districjlegislation passed in California. PLATE I. CALIFORNIA IRRIGATIONUNDER THE WRIG DISTRICTS ORGANIZEDHT ACT OF 1887. SiUilii (;(itrii(les Vinclaiid (ilendora Pomona ()iaiii;e Belt Strong Walnut Hialto Olive Citrus Belt (Jrapeland Kast Riverside Alessandro Elsinore Penis Murrietta San Jacinto and Pleasant ValleyRiverside HeightsAnaheimEscondidoFallbrookLinda VistaJamachaSan MarcosOtay. Sketch map of California showing location of irrigation districts formed under theWright Act of 1887. Bui. 2—(p. 8) IRRIGATION DISTRICTS IN CALIFORNIA. 9 interest at the rate of 6 per cent, and it was provided that bonds shouldnot be sold for less than 90 per cent of their face value. In short, theact sought to clothe farming neighborhoods desiring irrigation with fullauthority at law to acquire by condemnation or otherwise all waterrights and irrigation works that a majority of the freeholders andtwo-thirds of the electors voting in any district election in such neigh-borhoods should decide in favor of, with the taxing power of the stateconferred upon such neighborhoods for financing their acquirement andoperation. ACTIVITIES UNDER THE WRIGHT ACT. Organization of irrigation districts followed quite rapidly after thepassage of the Wright act. The act was approved Marc
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