Show MOVE IN i WATER t IER ROW Mayor Replies to A G m SOliS son s Communication cation PROTECTS RIGHT EIGHT I D DEOL NEs TO RECOGNIZE AU rS TO I t Neither Side In the Controversy Has lIas Yet Resorted to Force But Both Seem to Be lIe 13 e Waiting Wafting Wa ting to Settle the Contest Conlest In a Fierce Pierce Legal Battle That Is to Come ComeI ComeS I S 4 I I Another move nOe was made yesterday esterdaY I by the executive of f Salt Lake City to toward to toward I ward bringing to a focus the conflict con lct i 1 between 1 the municipality and the Lam Lamson Lamson I Ison I son power plant over the water rights in Jordan narrows A week has I Ipa passed pa sed without either side resorting to I force of muscle or weapons but each side is jealously guarding its rights I I I The city Is s 5 taking its full share of ot water from front the river rivet and the power I plant to tc give color to the claim that I S it Js 15 l using all the water is de delivering I livering to tc the city canal below the taU tall race another large volume al although although although though it has a waste weir The effect of ot this is to strain the canal banks al at alI moet I to bursting b Any hour may zany re reI j 1 I suit suli in open hostilities between the city I Ian an and the power plant company but eventually the controversy must find settlement in the courts In pursuance of authority given gien i ithe the council counell Tuesday Tue daj evening and anti on the tite advice of the attorneys Mayor Thompson yesterday transmit transmitted transmItted I ted to tl President Allen G Cl Lemson lAmson of the Salt Lake City Water Electrical Power company the following Authority Not Recognized UIn In reply to ro your Our ur communication of the I beg to say sy that the municipality of Salt Lake City declines to recognize the authority thus as as assumed mimed by you ou and your company to in interfere Interfere Interfere with its canal and water system system tem tern and aix to control and regulate the division of the water from the tho Jordan river required for the uses urea of the mu municipality municipality municipality and its inhabitants The city will endeavor to attend to its wa Va water Vater ter supply without relying on the as u assistance assistance however hoever well directed of or your company and in this particular in instance instance Instance stance views view the remarkable action trespass which is In more than likely to result in serious damage dam to its prop property property erty It is unnecessary to say that your company will be he held strictly responsible responsible sible sibie for tor all aU damages and that the city denies deme your right to use any of the waters of or the river in which the city has an interest or to in any way in invade invade Invade vade the use or the manner of the use of its water rights or ditches Lamson Worried Mr r Lamson stated test last evening that the mayors communication did not startle stattie him in the least le st and that his would continue to proceed pro eed on the lines s mapped out long ago I to tb use twe the elty water wa tet for power generating I purposes City Engineer I y reported yes yesterday Y that the level of Utah lake is I from from six to eight inches in below the com corn compromise compromise promise point Whether the I would be put in the dam as AB the city cUy and anti the several canal companies have havea I Ia a right to do to raise the lake lakO ak level for I next summers use the engineer de declined d I to state This would cut off the entire flow fi W t Of f the river for a tL period t at I least ast and ant stop slop the II plant Hugh S Gowans of Thoele efe To county j I Iwas was wae on Wednesday elected a member mern r of the Utah lake commission which I Iha has ha jurisdiction over the water raisins raising I matter The other er member members of the I commission sion are H T P Spencer and John JohnA JohnA A grown Brown of Salt Lake county and two I of Utah county |