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Show LEI1I FARMERS UNWILLING TO HAVE DRAINAGE Petition Against Including Their Land in Proposed Drainage District. Landowners in the Lehi section representing approximately 750 acres has petitioned the Utah county coun-ty commission not to have theil i lands included in the proposed Utah j lake drainage district to be created , in connection with the reclamation '. of Utah lake lands, i Several of the petitioners appeared ap-peared before the county commia- sion and verbally protested against the inclusion of their particular lands. None of them were opposed to the creation of the district om as far as their own personals lands were concerned. The petitioners are also vcr much interested in the maintaining of Utah lake at compromise point. The- petitioners are against the including of their lands in the drainage district for several reasons. rea-sons. "We cannot see how the drainage system would benefit us on this land ' because1 it is of such poor quality,'' says the petition. "The drainage of the land, when completed, would , require the purchase of new watei to grow the crops which it now produces. pro-duces. The soil in the land adjoining adjoin-ing the lake is so shallow that it requires much water to produce the crops which are now grown. But, we are very much interested in thb keeping of the water at the compromise com-promise point entered into between Salt, Lake and Utah counties." Among the petitioners are Fred Peterson, Ellis Peterson, Mrs. B. S. Lott. Ell Fox, Thomas Webb, T. G. Webb, David Uoberts, J. T. Winn, W. W. Clark, M. E. Iihodes, J. W. Taylor, Isaac Fox, Hyrum Smith, Christine Harrison, John S. Smith, Esther A. Powell, Joseph E. Smith, Victor W. Smith, Chester M. Smith, Samuel Briggs, Chris Peterson, George H. Fox, Blanche Evans, W. R. Sharp, Lester Peterson, Mrs. Caroline Ball, Joseph Andreason, George Coates, Emma J. Gontes. The commission is. considering the creation of a drainage district as petitioned several woks ago by a majority of landholders in the district dis-trict involved. |