SCID Grows
On March 25, 1918 the Board held a special meeting to call a special election to issue a bond in the amount of $125,000 to purchase the Black Butte Land & Livestock Company, their property (Long Hollow Ranch) with its apurtenant water rights, and their interest in the SCID irrigation system. On May 4 1918, 26 electors voted(23 for, 3 against) and the district concluded the purchase.
In 1919 the annual assessment was $.19 per acre for 1895 acreage and $.26 per acre for junior acreage and $.15 per acre foot delivered.
On May 3, 1919, the district held a special election to bond $15,000 for the district improvements, mainly a new dam to be constructed 6100 feet below the existing diversion which conserved considerable ditch loss through more than a mile of cobble leading from the old diversion.
In 1926 the Cloverdale Irrigation Company dissolved (having gone out of business in 1923). SCID absorbed its lands and irrigation works and proceeded to enlarge the Cloverdale canal between 1936 and 1940.