Government misappropriating revenues
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Editor,
Has anyone thought over why the Secretary of the Interior just recently sent more than a billion dollars to Montana, via the tribes, to buy real property issued to landowners by land patents in Montana? These land patents are the most valuable form of land ownership in the world today. The land and the water appurtenant to it was never owned by the State of Montana. Therefore, the State of Montana has no right to our appropriated, appurtenant water rights. There is 44,000,000 acre feet of water leaving the state every year and the ownership of that water is contained in our water rights via our land patents and appropriated and decreed water rights, it does not belong to the federal or state governments. There are more than 147,000 homes lighted by Kerr Dam everyday. The water used to operate Kerr Dam are senior water rights that are owned by you and I. This same water runs down to the Columbia River Basin, then to the Pacific Ocean? The Secretary of the Interior has been mismanaging those funds, in 17 states all over the West, since the 1949 repayment contracts. This may shed a little light on the BPA buying up property with appurtenant water rights, for many years for fish habitat. If we look at the compacts all over Montana we can now understand why the laws have not and are not being followed. Look at the 1920 Federal Power Act; tribal allotments were not assessed any per centum taxes for net power revenues that were coming in. Tribal and non-tribal members have had net power revenues misappropriated.
Gene Erb
Dixon
