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Show Ogden River Down to 50 Feet of Water- Ogden, City Turns All Its Water in the Bench Canal to, the River, but Will Only Satisfy Small Part of? the Dry Land More Water is Wanted Enough Crops Destroyed Than Would Build a Reservoir. Joseph A. Taylor, the Water Commissioner Com-missioner for the Ogden rvei ilstrut, is much annoyed over the shortage of water. He called on tho major. Saturday, and asked that the citv permit Its water in the Bench canal to go down the river, and promptly on Saturday night the entire Bench canal stream was turned down the river and hereafter 3 1-2 cubic feet of the Bench canal will be turned down the river in the daytime, and 8 cubic I feet all night Through the courtesy i of Angus T. Wright, president of the Bench canal the matter was arranged I promptly and tonight the city i council undoubtedly will confirm this action and in this way the city of Ogden will turn more water into the Ogden river than the entire water works usos. Mr, Taylor says that excepting Per-ryvillo Per-ryvillo and the Mound Fort ditches all of the people on the other canals are suffering for water He says tbat tho Lynne Irrigation ditch has almost enough, but that all other ditches outside out-side of that have not half enough water wa-ter and some of them have not even 25 per cent as much water ns they should have. Pleasant View It is reported re-ported has not had any water for a mouth and that even North Ogden is suffering. Joseph A. Taylor Is also a humorist besides being a water commissioner. He called at the office of the proposed South Fork Reservoir company and without cracking a smile asked that 250 feet of water per second be turned down the Ogden river. When informed that he would have to pay cash for that amount of water he said there would bo no trouble at all raising rais-ing the money if he could only get tho water. Mr. Taylor was very aux- I ions that those in charge of the subscription sub-scription for the proposed reservoir again take up the matter of building the reservoir. He said ho was sure that a. great many people In the country coun-try who had refused to sign for stock in tho past would be willing to do so now. He says that a great many people peo-ple smiled last spring when Mayor Glasmahn of Ogden said that the Ogden Og-den river was liable to go down to less than 100 feet of water this summer sum-mer and yet, he says, that he was advised by competent engineers that tho flow of the Ogden river now is not more than 50 cubic feet and the weather prophets have stated that this is the beginning of the cycle of dry years nnd that there would be from seven to eleven dry years following fol-lowing this oar after which there would again be a period of about ten years In which the water would be fully 50 per cent more than it is this year. iMr O B Madson, Chairman of the County Commissioners, and Mayor Glasmann, who have charge of tho subscription list are perfectly willing to give moro time towards securing subscriptions for the resorvoir, but they claim that the farmers dp not meet them In the proper spirit. Neither Neith-er one of them will make one cent out of the proposition and yet they havo spent a good deal of time and money for the cause and are willing to give more, but the farmers must show a. disposition to assist in getting get-ting the proper amount of stock subscribed. sub-scribed. Mr. Taylor snys thousands and tens of thousands of dollars worth of crops are drying up. The loss to Weber county farmers this year would huild one half of the reservoir. |