Show IMPORTANT DECISION ISSUE BETWEEN THIS CITY AND UTAH COUXTY FARMERS Judge Kinds Ruling Will Be Die ustrous to the Canal Cnipanics of I Tills County As announced elsewhere in this issue is-sue Judge King of Provo yesterday rendered his decision in the case between be-tween Salt Lake City and the farmers on the shores of Utah lake involving the right of the canal companies to maintain the height of the dams a at present established In his opinion Judge King decides that the planking must be reduced from twentytwo inches inch-es to fourteen inches or a lowering of the water line of eight inches The decision is of tie greatest Importance Im-portance to the people of this county inasmuch as they contended tat twen tytwo inches were necessary tn order to furnish a sufficient volume of water to supply the wtants of the farmers whose supply of water for irrigating depends upon the canals Joseph E Taylor one of the referees in the damage suits between the canal companies and the Utah county farmers farm-ers was seen last night by a Herald representative and asked what effect the decision would have upon the farmers farm-ers in this county Twentyone inches is not too high he said I is absolutely necessary that the dam should be maintained at that height to order t supply sufficient w ter for our needs You may say most positively that fourteen inches will be too low and it will be absolutely impossible I impos-sible for the canal companies to obtain nit that height a sufficient volume to meet the demands Being pretty familiar with the evidence evi-dence and the facts in the case I confess con-fess that I do not see upon what point the opinion is based The Salt Lake Canal removed obstructions company rmove obstructons and dredged the river to the depth of 241 inones and maintained the right to raise the water in the dams a corresponding cor-responding height by virtue of having done that work but to be safe the raise was made only twentytwo Inches Inch-es esMr Taylor did not believe that the water line maintained at that height would in any way overflow and damage the farmers along the shores of the lake and to substantiate thin he had a table of the highest water marks covering cov-ering the past six y lars which had been compiled by competent engineers from careful measurements The decision is certainly disastrous to the interests of the farmers in this county were Mr Taylors parting words to the reporter |