| Show BEGIN TRIAL OF S BIG WATER SUIT SUITCase 1 Case c se Involving Water Supply Will Be Long Drawn Out MANY PARTIES INTERESTED INQUIRY WILL GO BACK TO PIO PlO PIONEER PIONEER NEER DAYS The trial of ot the suit brought by the Progress company against Salt Lake City and about other defendants to adjudicate adjudicate adjudicate cate the water rights In Big Cottonwood creek was begun before Judge Charles W Morse of the district court yesterday The case is of at inestimable importance to the city as It Involves the right to the I use of at the water now flowing through the I Big Cottonwood conduit which cost and the completion of ot which was thought to have solved forever to rever the local water problem If It the decision should be against the city it would mean that either the conduit would have to be abandoned or that an enormous yearly rental have to be paid for tor the water conveyed through It Many Party Defendants When hen the tho city acquired the water rights whIr it now claims claIm in the stream it bar bargained bargained bargained gained with its predecessors In interest to furnish them water for their needs in lieu of ot the tho rights which they sur surrendered surrendered surrendered rendered These Include about farm tarm farmers farmers ers en and other water users in the district Irrigated by the creek and all have been made party defendants in the suit instituted Instituted instituted by the Progress people who claim to have a prior right to a large proportion proportion proportion tion of the water In order to settle the tho matter with the greatest dispatch it has been decided that the evidence shall first deal with those which are nearest the conduit In Intake Intake intake take and then proceed to tako take up the ditches further down tho the course of the stream separately Judge Morse will visit the country affected Thursday leaving with the various attorneys interested on the Murray street car at 8 S In the morning At Murray Murra teams will be fur furnished furnished furnished and the trip of at inspection begun Back to Pioneer Days I The case will probably last lost two months i during which time no less than wit witnesses i nesses will be examined It is proposed to go back to the original diversion of the stream in 1852 by President Brigham Young Toung of the Mormon church for Irrigation Irrigation irrigation tion purposes and then trace the respective respective tive rights of the parties in interest up to the present time The first witness to be called yesterday was Henry W Y Brown o of Murray His memory carried him back as far as 1853 and he spoke of the work of ot President Young Toung as if it it had been done yesterday He Is a Q a remarkably active man according t to his testimony for ho he said that he could toss a stone into the stream from his house aid In the next breath declared the distance to be twenty rods The city is represented by Ogden HileS city attorney and Franklin S Richards who has been retained as special coun counsel counsel sel sd The plaintiffs are represented by King Burton King and Van Cott Allison Riter Other attorneys and law firms representing various defendants are aro C S Sw w Kinney A T Sanford Street Bramel Stephens Smith Price Stewart Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art Budge C E Marks P L Wil Williams Williams liams hams representing the Utah Light Rail Railway Railway Railway way company Grant Bagley and J 1 U 11 Hurd |
