| Show CITY ASKS RIGHT OF WAY I Sues to Compel East Jordan Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion Company to Allow Enlarge Enlargement i i ment of Canal i iThe I The city yesterday brought suit guit in the th district court against the East Jordan I Irrigation to condemn a right for tor its water through the East Jordan canal The action Is a most important one on onI I and nd Is 15 a result of the failure of the city cit and company compan to compromise The city of offered offered offered to enlarge the canal line it with cement and pay the company 1000 a year The company however wanted 2500 and the city engineer considering this In the nature of a hold up induced the attorney to condemn the way and let the court apportion the dam damages damages damages ages if there be any The canal In question carries Irrigation water from the Jordan river high up along the east cast bench and ends at Little Cot Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood The rile city cit has a canal further to the west known as the Jordan and Salt SaIt Lake City canal which supplies wa water water water ter to a large number m In exchange for mountain water which the city needs to supply its inhabitants Between the two canals there are arc a large number of pee peo people pIe who have hae rights in Little and Big I Cottonwood creeks and who would will willingly willIngly willingly give them up for an equal amount of Itah lake water which is really bet better better ter for tor irrigation purposes than that of I the mountain streams In order to sup supply supply ply these people the city cit desires to use the East Jordan canal in fn which It now I has a right to carry carr thirtyfour second feet feeL The proposition made to the company com company company pany was to allow the city to carry carryall all of its second feet secured from the Jordan river and now carried In the city canal through this higher canal thus al allowing allowing allowing lowing it to supply the whole surround surrounding ing country with water In this event the city canal would be abandoned from Jordan narrows to Little Cottonwood antI and at that point the Fast East I ast Jordan canal would be IJ connected with It The contention of the city is that it H needs this for a public use i and that the use of the defendants Is a private use The court Is asked to adjust ad adjust just any and all ail damages that may ma arise from the use of the city cit of this canal and the city it in addition promises to pay pa pathe the cost of enlarging it The suit will wiil be bEe vigorously fought by bythe b bI bythe the farmers who compose the company compan I 0 |
