Show t WATERS w t Rs T LOWLANDS Utah Lake Has Bas More Than Reached Beached Compromise mise Point F int and Is Still Rising Lehi L hi April 24 About t fifteen years ago the lh tanners farmers owning land on n Utah Utai lake l k kR ad R the canal companies of Salt Lake and nd vexatious sl law lawsuits l w wi suits i tz upon a level to t which the latter wor f to t raise the waters vaten ater of Utah Jake laker lak In Impounding them for fot Ir Irrigation purposes This level was wa named 0 compromise point and when the wa waters a aters tars of the lake came camo up op to it tho the pates gats gat were opened and the th surplus went down the th river But this thin season when this level l vel was reached the streams emptying into Utah lake were so swollen that standing Manding over 00 of water ia ki being through Jordan river liver per second sec nd the lake Jake is rising so rapidly that the thi level is b already several inches abo above compromise point and is gradually gradually ally any climbing higher Owners of land be ba balow below below low compromise point have farmed f it ft during durl the past pant ten years but now find lJ surrounded by water acres of low tow lands have been flooded already and as the th high water waters season s with the streams emptying Into the lake Jak has haa only Just begun It is probable probable able that a record for high water will be b I established and lind no doubt the canal corn com companies co m will be made defendants in suits s ts for lor damages The canal companies are making ex lve Improvements at their big pump pumpIng pumpIng pumping Ing station at the head of Jordan To Id an river though the pumps will wUl not be used July Tuly and If the lake continues rising it itIs itIs Is 18 probable they th y will not be used at all this year The two big tew Lew ew Jackson pumps from San Ban Francisco have arrived and are being set et on their cement cem nt foundations When they are installed there will be seven pumps each with a capacity of raising over Oer cubic feet of water wate per second nd each ench pump being operated by b an nn elec doe electric Inc motor of which ev eT every ery try hours will lift over 4 gallons of water This Thia power is 15 l furnished by b the Utah County Light company and td tO protect pr Salt Lake City against any accident ac of the power causing to fall faU down on their contract ct with the farmers of Cot Cottonwood the city has hus installed a 11 r gasoline engine which would be brought into use A brick building has hasteen hasteen teen been built for the new pumps and next reason the frame building that houses the other oth r h arid tid be Us replaced by one of brick and cement feet of ot gates have been built and a new opening for the river made so sc s that th at when the lake is high the P water may flow through them While the gates were being constructed and pince point has b been en reached the water has been flowing g through two tw additional channels which were cut this spring |