Show SEEK WATERS FOR SANPETE proceedings in lit mandamus wet e instituted in tho tile third district court friday by C A gillette Oll lette al ainest Bt tilt state engineer II 11 E caldwell Cald vell to compel him to act upon an all applina tion made by mr air gillette to divert acre feel feet ot of water from the price iziver Hunt higton creek and cottonwood creek in lit carbon and emery counties tor for tho ilia purpose of irrigating acres ot or land tho the application was as tiled flied on oil august 25 1921 and again on january 24 1922 it waa was defiled involved li it the proceedings is the question of the right of the state engineer to draw with the of the gov arnor the waters aters ot of any water source in tho ilia stale the withdrawal with drasal wai was if ado ferut to 4 A tr r all the r of tit tin 3 1 r ta river P F 1 1 quenta lue urda ord r i a u ninuel ed so as to include only the ot of rish creek after the amendment mr air gillette representing a group of salt lake men filed application for the appropriation of waters ot of and cottonwood creeks in emery county and the tile price river in carbon county to be stored in tit a reservoir in fit pleas pleasnt nt valley the intimation was made that tho the emery county waters would be diser diverted ted in to the price river to supply the car bon county water nater users and that the flood waters of the price would be taken mccross the tile wasatch mount ains near soldier summit and turn ed onto lands in and jual counties to give supplemental and late season water supply to the partially supplied lands of those re glona the engineer returned the nil to the applicant with the request that ho he eliminate any re terrance ferrance to tho the water of or the price river as a correction it was the mont ol 01 0 the engineer that price river begins at colton where the fish joins the soldiers creek the tilt contention Is said to bo be upheld by soma official maps and also by local nomenclature on the other hand mr gillette and his associates take the position that tho the official maps show that the stream from front the tile june tion of fish and pleasant creeks is known as the west fork of the ot of the price as tar far as colton and that Ilie therefore the application was not subject to such correction they hold to this contention by the official map compiled by the ilia con commission of the state now extinct exten ct made in 1911 there has liten considerable cor respond enco between the parties re garding thu the withdrawal of tho the water of the price river and on february last the state engineer return ed oil the application which is number ed accompanied by a letter in which mr air gillette was requested to correct the application in accord i ance with the request which was that reference to the price river bo be stricken thio this mr air Uil billette lette declined to do price advocate |