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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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ation, That came later, after he got through with the
food administration, But food administration was not
a very difficult job at that time, but it threw you
in contact with a lot of very interesting people.
I'm alweya curious as to how this food administration
worked, Did you have any power really, or was it
mostly persuasion?
Yes, we hed real power if we wanted to use it. I
never had to use it. But we had real power. One time
I remember I had information that they were selling
sugar, which was very scerce, et ea town called Hamilton. I went over there and found that they were perfectly willing to cooperate with us. I had no trouble.
The stores cooperated very well. Those country people
would cooperate much better than probably they would
in a large city and during those war years end the
yeers following there was very good cooperation.
Getting Water from the Sacramento
West Side Cenal Company
I think I read somewhere that you had to supervise the
operations of the Sacramento West Side Canal Company.
Before I went to the ranch, I was offered a very good
price for the property, which probably I ought to have