Show P EJE TO TOI I OBTAiN WATER fi SoUth Jordan J Canal Shareholders ers rs Against Government VOTE DOYN ANY CHANGE GON CONTENT TO TAKE OES ON WEA IN FUTURE 4 t The stockholders of oC the th Canal company compan yesterday that the they dId not wish to eater unter to tite go goI gov At a protracted meeting I hold at the West Vest ordan meeting house It was decided ban by a narrow majority to trust the weather rather than Uncle Sara Sam The opinIon was expressed that the rainfall In the future would d bo be greater and therefore no assistance tance was n needed from the government to Insure a steady ample and permanent sUPply of water from Utah lake The statement was made that enough water coula be secured by pumping to supply the needS ot of the stockholders Conse all proposItions for n of distribution ot of water to induce the gov government to come In and develop the valley alle ware rejected I AbOut persona were ware the meeting house President Angus M MCannon I Cannon head ot of the company and a 3 member of the water users committee presided Other members of the corn com present were vere Colonel E F Holmes State Engineer A F and John b t Mack Mackey Lively President Cannon stated the object ot of the meeting Re He said the directors of the danal comp had agreed d that fifty e second cond feet for each was a 0 fair equivalent for existing in case the wOnt went ahead h arl with the undertaking and the meeting had been called to ascertain the senti sentiment mont ment of the stockholders This precipitated a livel lively discussion A large number of the farmers be betrayed betrayed hostility to any change what whatever ever eer assuming the attitude that the government was askIng a favor which It was no advantage to them to grant After the talk had hod gone on for some sometime sometime time Bishop Hebor Heber Bennion moved that the company accept fifty second feet as Its share A motion was made to amend this to matte make Jl it eighty feet Both propositions were voted down An Another Another other motion to make malte it sixty feet teet Was carried carrle b by n a narrow majority As two thirds Js IS 11 any action n Of df this i kind the vote hud had no real effect An adjournment was th n taken The other companIes will bold nold their meetings Thursday and Frida Mean nn an effort will be made to explain to the shareholders or of the South Jor dan company what the move really moans means and what a great advantage it will vIll be to them It If the necessary majority can be made to understand the I meeting will wUl probably probably ably be later |