| Show EMINENT DOMAIN BILL IS PASSED Right Is Given Smelting Com Corn Companies Companies to Condemn Ground 1 for Distribution of Fumes WILL 0 HELP TOOELE COUNTY f ENTERPRISE IN PINE v CANYON jile the She senate yesterday esterday unanimously passed pl house bill No 85 83 granting to the right of eminent domain Tho Tio Till bill 13 la one of the big bi measures be before before fore fo fore the legislature and It now requires ony the signature of tho the governor to be become become come como a part of ot the laws of ot the state It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is easily cally the most important law that has been passed by both houses bouses of the legislature The bill was Introduced as ns the result or oC the smelter smoke cases In hl 1 which farmers whose crops were damaged by the fumes from smelters enjoined the smelters from operating In 1 order that they might continue to operate a bill was Introduced In the last legislature similar to the one passed by bythe b bythe I the senate yesterday The bill passed both Troth houses of the legislature but was vetoed cooed by b the governor after the session had adjourned The bill passed yesterday esterday is more re than the one of two years ago It provides that the power of eminent domain shall not be operative unless the smelting company has options on 75 per percent percent percent cent of or the tho property within the four fourmile fourmile mile radius The law Is made applicable In n counties of less than population population tion lion Particular application of the new law lawIs Is made In the construction of the big smelting project at the mouth of Pine canyon in Tooele county near Tooele City It was largely because of the pro proposed posed construction of this big enterprise that till the bill was introduced This smelter smelter smelter ter is to be constructed by b the International International International Mining Smelting company at a acost acost cost ost of approximately five millions of dollars The company constructing the big smelter has lias already alread options on more than 90 per cent of the property within the fourmile radius and considerable even beyond that radius The bill gives the company the right to condemn the theother theother theother other 10 per cent within the fourmile radius In order that it may own the actual property or on that property on which the dust and fumes from the smelter are likely to settle and do damage When the bill came up for final pas passage passage passage sage Senator Horsley asked that the bill billBO go BO over until Thursday that some of his constituents from Tooele county count who were opposed to the measure might be given an opportunity to be heard When Senator Benner X Smith explained that all of those thom interested on either side had been given ample opportunity to be heard beard ard Senator Horsley withdrew his re request request quest On the roll call can every senator voted in favor of ot the bill Including Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Marks Jarks who two years ears ago a o led the tight light In the house against a similar bill |
