Show PUTTING THE NEW LAW INTO EFFECT Stale Engineer Doremus Is showing commendable dispatch in entering upon the new duties devolving upon him under un-der the recently enacted irrigation law lie will take the Weber and Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood for his starting points Under the statute therefore he will proceed to consider each of these streams In the entirely t of Us flow both natural and In flood The water rights claimed in each will be recorded and preserved and the process of putting all In proper form for perfect enforcement i will be undertaken that is each water user will get his full proportion of the flow of the stream The matter after these rights have been adjusted will no longer he uncertain and Indefinite nor will there be the opportunities of the post for enterprise in getting all one may think he wants whether his neighbor Is properly served or not When these streams have been thoroughly recorded and the rights settled as well the t flood and the surplus as the use in the irrigation season sea-son two things will be made clear First whether the law needs amendment amend-ment and If so in what respect ser ond whether more water Is claimed than can possibly be had and If so what remedy is needed I may be that the users themselves can devise remedies reme-dies for on the facls being ascertained and put down in black and white it will be apparent to all that it Is Idlc to persist In claims that cannot possibly pos-sibly be realized With the proof of and acquiescence In the latter point much ncedecl progress will have been made for the unreasoning touchiness of waterusers their reluctance define exactly what they claim and theIr de termination lo lake all they can get whether they can make beneficial use of it or not have complicated the irrigation irri-gation question so badly in many localities lo-calities of Utah that 0 practicable solution so-lution seemed Impossible But we believe be-lieve that all the snarls can he taken out of the question by the faithful and fair administration of this new Irrigation Irriga-tion law and we will add that we consider con-sider the State and the people who are practically interested lo be fortunate in having the administration of the new law In the hands of so thoroughly competent wellinformed fair and careful a man a Stale Engineer Dore mus |