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Show DELTA LITIGATION IS li COWS FIR ! Vice President Says Inter- j ests of Settlers Will Be Looked After. j A telegram was received yesterday ' by tho Delta Land & Water company's general counsel that tho United States district court lor the southern district of California had denied the service of , summons in the seventy-five cases' pending against the Delta Land & j Water company and the Western Scniri- ! ties company in that court. In effect, j this is a final determination of all the suits recently launched against these two companies in the California courts. 1 "If any further litigation follows,"1 said George A. Snow, vice president of the Delta Land & Water company, "it will be necessary for the settlers who left Milford and went to California Califor-nia to launch litigation to return to Utah, where the project is situated and where the business was transacted, and where the facts can be ascertained and where the full situation can be better presented than could bo done in California. Cali-fornia. "Wo wish it understood that the company bears no malice against the great majority of the settlers who chose to follow 'false gods' and failed to realize that the company was more genuinely interested in their welfare than anyone else could possibly be this for t he reason that the company holds their mortgages and wants to see them succeed. ' ' Some two weeks ago the compnnv sent out circular letters to all the Mil-ford Mil-ford project settlers, whether on the project or in California, stating that company 'officers would be at Milford March o to 10 to entertain any requests re-quests made by the settlers for extensions exten-sions and readjustments of their indebtedness. in-debtedness. "We want the settlers to co-operate more closely with the company," continued con-tinued Mr. Snow. ' ' We are desirous that their affairs be placed in more satisfactory and permanent condition, such as would make for peace of mind and contentment. "It is most unfortunnte for the state and the counties directly interested, as well as the Delta Land" & Water company, com-pany, that such an unwarranted blow should be given to irrigation development develop-ment as is reflected by this flood nf litigation launched in" California as against company and project operating in Utah. "For the good of the farmers themselves, them-selves, as well as the state and all concerned, con-cerned, it is to be ereatly recretted that some of the settlers should have been so willing to follow the lead of those not directly interested in their welfare am leave their, farms and appeal ap-peal to the courts without first making an honest effort to co-onerate and adjust ad-just their dilTeremes with the coinnanv that is so vitally interested in their success." |