Show EXPLAINS ABOUT WATER CONTRACT i Engineer Snow Talks on Agreement With Farmers RIGHTS PROTECTED o FOR OR THE SIX MONTHS REQUIRED 4 e W Y Snow city cIt bon ben asked a about bou t the he cr i made in the d water trading o ct pro for in the bond is Issue ue alleging that t the ell city was getting the short end oth deal Said In 1 It was decided to divide the wa tf r from Big Cottonwood into sixty f thare har The of the big Von ton have been getting seventeen E she ha re of this water The contract ula t that in the exchange with the the company Is to get 2 26 per cent water than the city which is or 42 more than the company has been receiving from the creek The Ity Is to the seventeen shares the amount the company has been re By measuring the water at atthe atthe the mouth or of the canyon we are quite luite sure that the city wm will get SO 80 per cent although the contract provIdes that It will wUl pt gt hut but 6 per cent u as much as is given sway away The only way the contract can be b Void d III Ia by the ottys through all entIre to give the farmers the water ater promised If the city turns the water into the he farmers dItches for but a day during the year it will be fulfilling its purt of the agree agreement ment t to prevent the for forfeiture of the contract Reason For Other Litigation The litigation over the Parleys can oon cana on a water In which suit has been corn com commenced against th the city wa 88 caused by ti lAtter refusing to live up to nC It agreement and give Gabbott and aud others 1 the water due them In III this case the I city got short of water and failed to toI I lIow ROY any of It to go to the farmers It had contracted to do so the farmers asked the court to declare the agreement void vola and give thu their original water right back again ui As rI far as the right of the city to toti bade ti ada ft share of th the water of Utah lak lake Is concerned there is no question 3 SF long as the elt city barters its portion corporations and the city own the lake Four pumps force the Into the six Ix ditches three on onea ea each h side ot of the valley vaHey The complaint I It as t r I understand It is that the city may give a way away more than Its share For It Itis ItIs is proposed b by the city to put In an anether anether ether pump at the lake Jake This Is to be wed used only In ease cast one of oC the others taU fall to work so o the city will not be betAking betaking tAking wore than its share of water b by bythe the or of the fifth pump City Gity Nay May Take Water The the five corporations cannot prevent folt Lake City from taking aU all the water It needs providing the supply Is not depleted Even It If in a dry season the city should not be to pump ut the lake for th the farmers with whom It tr traded ded It could give them In re return turn tum from the farmers old supply at atC C Inasmuch as the plan gives Salt Lake CIl City about three times Umes t water as it now has there wU II be no great inconvenience if the city i Is obliged during an emergency such as a break In one ohe of the pumps SL Utah lake to give the farmers theIr old water back a again ln until the damage can be repaired The trouble would be benl nl temporary and the farmers do 10 not care where they get their water ater so long as they get it |