Show EXPLAINS ABOUT WATER CONTRACT Engineer Snow Talks on Agreement With Farmers RIGHTS PROTECTED E FOR THE TEE E ENTIRE TIRE SIX MONTHS TO VOID 4 I W Snow cIty engineer risked about the er tt in the thep p water trading pro provided vided for In the bond bend alleging that the was wa getting the short end endOt 0 Ot th the deal Said In Iii 1 60 It Vas v ns decided to divide the waLer from Big Cottonwood into sixty haro har The owners of the big Von ton fitch have haye been getting seventeen shares blars of oC this water The contract sUp s that in the exchange with the tIt lb the company is to get 2 i per cent water than the city which Is shares or 42 more than the company compan has been receiving from the creek The I Ity It Js IS entitled to the seventeen shares the amount the company has been re cIng By measuring the water at atthe atthe the mouth ot of the canyon we are quite sure that the city swIll get SO per cent although the contract provides that it wm will get but b 6 per cent as much as is git given n away The only way the contract can be voided Js Is by bJ the tailing CallIng through h S 8 n ii SeniOR season to give the farmers the water promised If the city turns the Water Into the he farmers ditcheS for hut but a a single da day during the year ear It will be Its part of oC the agree agreement agreement ment Sufficient to prevent the for forfeiture forfeiture ot of the contract Reason For Other Litigation The litigation o over r the Parleys can canon cann on n wAter In which suit has been corn com commenced against th the city WM was caused by tI latter Itter refu ng to live up to its A agreement and give Gabbott and others L the water dUe them In this case the elty got short of water and failed to Any ot of It to go to the farmers it had contracted to do so hence the farmers asked the court to the agreement void and give them their original water right back again A As far as the right of oC the city to te totT tT ade Its share of th the water of Utah Jake Ia 18 concerned there Is no question L Ls lil s long as the city barters Its portion Five corporations and the city own the lake Four pumps force the WI Into the six ditches three or on each side ot of the valley The complaInt n a r understand It is that the city may ma r give away more than its share For It II t Is proposed by the city to put In an anther ther pump at the lake This is to be UNC used Obi only In caSE one of the others I tail fall to work so 80 the city will not be beta b ta taking king wore than its share of water b the Installation or of the fifth pump City Nay Hay Take Water The live five corporatIons cannot prevent I falt Lake City from taking an all the th water It needs providing the supply is ii riot depleted Even If Ie in a dry t the cIty should not be to pump pumi out ut the lake for the farmers wIth whom whon I It had traded It could give them In re t turn urn from the farmers old supply at a t 4 Inasmuch as the plan pint 1 gIes Salt Lake Ctt City about three time Umes S mUM much water nater as it now has there ther will b be no great inconvenience if the th thC C y 1 Is obliged during an emergency such as a break In one of the pumps pump 5 Rt at Utah lake to give the farmers their theli L Lold old water back until the damage an be repaired The trouble would be b temporary and the farmers do not no t CAre where the they get their water so s long as a they get It |