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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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district's right to do that?
Yes, they certainly would, but I don't remember that
that problem ever came up. The only problem was a
change in the laws that would allow the proper distri-~
bution and sale of power end also would provide for
how the income from power was to be used. I don't
remember that there wes any particular problem about
their right to sell power although at first it wes
rather opposed by the private companies.
. Methods of Reising ‘Money
There also came up during my time the problem of how
to collect dues. The association originally only
paid Wagner a very small amount to cover his expenses,
as he was at first employed by Merced Irrigation Dis~
trict and later had a joo with the state. Later, we
hed an office in San Franciseo and at that time we
required additional income to pay a secretary fulltime, At that time Wacner had retired es an employee
of the state and we wanted him as a fully paid secretary. So we had to make a change in the method of
collecting dues. At that time we raised the dues considerably. The dues were allocated very largely on
the basis of the income of the district, a percentage