Show LANDS FlOODED SUIT PROBABLE Salt Lake County Canal Com Companies Companies Companies Will Have to Defend Action for Damages t Lehl Lehi Jan 11 Members of the Utah Lake commission came over from Provo P ova yesterday with a surveyor and are tatung tang measurements of ot the thc lake and Jordan JordanIn river in the vicinity vl of the big pumps also further down the river r in the th nar narrows narrows narrows rows It Is said that the Utah county farmers who vho own land Jand on the shores of ot otI Utah lake which was flooded during the I past year are securing the necessary data to commence big suit for tor damages I against the Salt ke county canal com coin who the Utah county people hold hol l responsible for tor submerging acres of land Similar suits were commenced sev 1 eral years ears ago and resulted In the of a certain point above which the lakes level leel must not come which level became known as compromise point The lake is s now six inches above this forbidden level and as it ft is also now three feet higher than at the same sea season season season son last year the Utah county farmers fear that with six months of high water wate yet to come the tle area submerged this year ear will be doubled over that of ot last year In addition to the old channel which prior to last season has proved sufficient for the ordinary ordinal outflow of at the lake the canal companies last spring cut an addi channel feet wide and still the lakes level is not lowered sufficiently The Utah county farmers say that when the pumps were wert being installed thousands of cubic yards of mud and sand were car carried carried carried ried down into the old bid ld river channel and that excepting for a hundred yards im immediately immediately Immediately mediately next the pumps this tion has never been removed and that to keep ke p the lakes level to compromise point especially during the high water season the river will have hac to be dredged for several sev several several eral miles below the pumps These and other questions will In the near future have to be determined by b the courts and th Utah county land owners are laying by a store of Information which will be used In the big fight The Utah County Light Power company com company company pany this week unloaded several cars o of ot f poles at Lehi Lehl and Lehi Junction with which they will next week commence the construction of a transmission line from their plants in American Fork canyon canon to Eureka miles distant The line will come across the bench north of Lehl Lehi to Jordan river rier from which point the most direct line will be chosen hosen to Cedar valley through which a direct line will be chosen to the Knight mines and smelt smelter er where the current will be used The Tha company compan has Just completed its new plant which generates 1600 1609 horsepower in addition to the one with its 7 0 0 horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power at the mouth of the canyon canon and finds Eureka the nearest market for Its It surplus energy not used In the towns of Lehi Lehl American Fork and Pleasant Grove Grov |