Show Stene St Creek Cei Heads to Bureau Water stock in the canyon streams cast east of Bountiful apparently apparently apparently w will ll go to the United States Bureau of oC Reclamation First of the companies Stone Creek voted Thursday evening to sell immediately to the bureau rather than to Bountiful The city council of of Bountiful recently offered to o bu buy the stock at the same price offered by the bureau if p payment ment could be made over a aten aten aten ten year period with option to pay off orr sooner if possible Meeting in the Bountiful 3rd Ward meeting house stock holders holders hold hold- ers voted overwhelmingly to sell to the bureau Mayor MayOl Harold L L. L Pope was present and gave an e explanation of or the action taken by the city council He told the group he believes the city should the water stock but ll should not go into into in in- to debt through bonding to bu buy it Bountiful now owns about nine per cent of oC Stone Creek Creck stock but the mayor did not vote it leaving the decision entirely up to the citizens citizen Of the plus shares represented represented at the meeting out of about 1000 voted to sell to the bureau Mayor Pope said making the selection decisive The vote came after a discussion lasting about one and sand one half hours Councilman L. L F F. Eckman was also at the meeting The decision to sell to the bureau bureau bu reau docs does not automatically mean the bureau will bu buy Bureau officials of of- officials have indicated in meet- meet rugs with the city council that the bureau will bu buy only if if it can get almost complete control of Stone Creek and the four irrigation com cam panics on Mill MUI Creek Anything less less' less and and it will not be interested However Howe now that Stone Creek has acted Mill Creek is likely to follow Some representatives of Mill Creek indicated Wednesday evening cn ng in a meeting with the city cily council that the they favored selling to the bureau Apparently nUy most stock holders want their money right now they said Some of those living outside the cit city limits of Bountiful felt their interests would be b better tt r served through the bureau t 1 The city councils council's decision to ask for time in paying was based on the belief that the the city cily should not bond for on its Us water system Present bonds might have to be sold with a large pen pen- alty alLy Many small stock holders probably could have been paid immediately Some indicated they would rather donate the stock to the city But the large stock holders hold ers wanted their theil mo money ey now In m my report to the city council council coun cil I 1 am going to recommend a complete stud study of the water de de- and supplies Mayor Pope said This might include a recommendation that the city stud study possible development of other water sources sources Barton creek creek the remaining one can sell only to the city i because the bureau does not want it since the city now ow owns ns a large share and t di dh dives es st t itself of the stock he Much said Much could be done to improve th the e amount of water from Barton Barion creek the mayor said slid i including piping further up stream Th The i city now has a reservoir to store water from Barton creek j |