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Show SANPETE IRRIGATORS Convention Declares for Individual Water Rights. Chester, Marth 8 Sanpete County Irrigators' Irri-gators' convention met nt tho opera house at 2 SO p m A XX. Jensen waa elected chairman and J F Allred secretary Two commltteea were quickly appointed and went nt once to work viz Committee on credentials and on resolutions Tho tom-mlttee tom-mlttee nn credentials disposed of thdr li hors In short order Committee on reso lutlons wrestle 1 with three resolutions for fully two hours' time and then wss hurried up by visitors from tho main body of tho convention Iltsolutlon .Xo 1 wns lo the eflect Hut Irrigation companies and owners In gen. eral of waler rights In I'tsh should retain the ownership und msnugemeni of iheir own holdings aa that will be verv mu h rheipcr than In allow the State to lake control This passed lhc committee with oi t any amendments neeolutlon No 2 was to the effeit that each cltv town an I village should have the right to purchase nt u nominal prlie from the fetato a reason ible ann. of walershel Tills resolution passed the committee with very few hangt- Iteenlutloti No 3 protest irdnst the withdrawal from entry of lhc v mt nrri of the mountain ranses of 1 tab a con templatcd in the order of the be retarv of the Inletlor The resflullon ontents that that withdrawal Is all igethei too sweeping and works a greit Injury io farmers slockrslsera. miner an) the whole cominunlly The roaolutlon pleads for dlvlalon Into sreas, me fvr ntoik ranges some for watershed- and so on so lhat the rights of all .hall I re nn tie I to tho best good of all lhis is I ill n took a full hour to g,t pii-i th mm mltlee and another tedious i.-, r in get past Ihe convention hut went nil rlsht The convention then adjourned while It forgot to draft any resolution on ihe sub. Ject of water storage whl h Is going to le an Important factor In the Irrlgitlon problems of the great XX est In relation to the rtorace of w iter the writer would say would It not be a wl e I Ian for the State at Its own expenae to authorize the Mate I ngln.er to hoose some available canyon In t tah and trv Ihe experiment of formlna arilfl lal glaciers In the side of the anynn leist exKe,l l to the sun The writer h-llevc. that fully ns milch or more wsler c ill be held hack till midsummer b I r nlnar such bodies of ire hs Is tonlaln d It ih tera thrte riarrvolra J It i L,ti XNOTHUrt ACCOl NT Mt Pleasant Xlareh l-A .nlntv irrl galnr convention was hell h rr vester day afternoon whirl, wav iicnad bv about 100 delegates tire it In. rest was manifested A XX Jnsen Heeled chairman XX D t andlard vice chairman chair-man c X Hardy secret rv o Here bind, assistant sscretsrv The follow Ing insolations were adnpte I -mmni, to"itali"aT,wNrJi,;rk" ; i-iitura llcin? .a, J.roM.lnff for " ystem of record tor water rights nnl protests e5a'r.gu"aflo0,?,n,r,,l cr '"'"'"nee with em?. !t!l'll,.".i'Sl" of l'rsheds to cities invns and viiiiacs on streams No X mot. i , wholesale Hnd Indiscriminate setting inart of fnrt r. '"'s.oi withdraw ?i Vfom entry " " It asks that a reas.nahle area of waler shed be set apirl ns a reserve and the balince h returned to public domain |