Show I P SIT ON OF fF SOUTH JO JORDAN D N CAN CANAL GO I AStEN ASEEN S To i The It LJ rat I I ln In order that t tia p pe n 0 of the tho South I I I canal may be more d by the people of thie state I Ishan shan Ik k for a little spec tn n your A ib P u and also aleo the ot Ct the readers your paper ed you au an a ora clear to allow thu space aPace Ler fer th The 0 or the he South Jordan lordan canal have been vere In the then n 5 of Salt SaIt Lake City for what some people choose to call stubbornness and nd they have styled us Now the real facts In the case are these Tb rh south Jordan Canal company does not Wish to obstruct the proposed Im Upon Utah laKe and Jordan river and ami the they have never attempted h a thing or do they Intend to do so but the company has ia acquired certaIn rights In the lake which the they are de le od to protect It IC the they can In the fIrst place the decreed all aIl of oC the water wate that the Iko at what Is known aK g compromise which Is 6 cubic second feet teet anti upon the testimony mon mony or of experts It decreed the capacity ot of otho ho several Horal canals water from tho tha Jordan rivet river to lie bo second feet but in order to get the tho amount ot of water sal fan to flit the canals canala to their full tull ca It would necessitate raIsing the Jake one or more feet above compromise which the companies haY have never neer attempted to do nor under the present Is 18 it likely that tbt th they wm wilt do doso 8 so But aside from the uses Qt oj the water aloni the Jordan river the five flye canal companies viz the East Jordan aal Salt Lake City North Jordan South Jordan the Utah 8 Salt L Lake ke Canal have hao never since the tho ot of these mal made a use ot of all ot of the water which Utah J lal e fould between corn pr ina and what Ig h cOmmonlY known as I w water mark that Is the point water would cease to now flow from Utah lake loke through the tho river channel That this is 18 a fact I think no one who is 18 acquainted with the will attempt to den deiy and with the or of four or five years the tha lake laka has rC reached hed compromise POint Hence Benco there thero has been no lapse ot of the tho rights of the canal corn com companIes pauSes through their Inability to make use ot of the waters of oC Utah lake between these two poInts as before belore stated With the tho exception o of a tow ears the lake has reached pOInt be besides sides aides a great deal deni of at water has usually run to waste down the Jordan river Into the tho SnIt Salt Jak lake and as there Is no bett better r way Wa ot of judging the future other than b by the history of the past I would ask flU aU reasonable minded people It if there thore Is any thing In the history ot of the past that will wUl warrant the tho belief that the tho sano samo humid condItions wIll not prevail In the tho future that have prevailed In the past patt and that I the tho lake lako will again reach compromise pOint notwithstanding the tact fact that a great groat deal of the water that used to now flow into the lake Is now used for tor Irrigation purposes In Ulah and Wasatch counties In order to meet this n w condition the tho five canal to farther Increase the storage capacIty of the tho lake and to secure a amount of at water through the irrigating season have spent 50 In estAblishing a pumping pint with Ith a capacity ot of cubic ln In order that water which has heretofore run to waste down the Jordan river may bo be stored for tor beneficIal uses Our position IS simply this The South Jordan Canal company Is entitled to one fifth ot of eli aU tHe water which Utah lake Jake will mil between low water mark mak and arni compromise point and or of orthe the water developed by the pumping plant and that maY hereafter be devel developed developed b by Increasing the ot of the pumping plant and und under r the tho new cond that would bi created b by the e carry leg Ing out ot of the government scheme WG we would get et at no time more than one fifth of feet teet Hence the stockholders claim that their rights and privileges are aro Worth eighty second feet ot of water de to them free of cost and that the they 4 would be willing to accept eighty second feet It If the deserving more water would subscribe for ad second feat whIch would Insure the South Jordan canal 15 second ted feet which with acres ot of land to Irrigate Would be one second toot foot per POl seventy acres for the entire amount of land Jand under the with per cent for seepage and andt t in transit which is 19 none too much for tor the aCtual needs or of the farmers residing under the canal now It If the South Jordan canal accepts sixty second feet teet In lieu or of its Itu primary rIghts It means that second feet would be the maximum or of water that the company would get et at an any time Ume for tor their primary rights and that the additional amount that mo may hereafter be developed would be divided pro rata among amonI all the canals whether hether it be new canals that may be taken out upon higher level or by the extension ot 01 th present beyond their Corporate limits with no assurance of any water beyond their sixty see sec second ond set teet which we C accept In lieu or of our we claim that the present canal companies should have havea a prior claim upon all the waler It if It would over recede to the point where It would not furnish an any more than what Is to irrigate the land under the tho prent canals and that It Ir anyone has hall to r In periods of oC drouth which we w I m hereafter ep t It should be those I acquire ne new rights In the proposed re reservoir Now Non It if the cO community will de I ve v ls Is tome me m means ni b by Jf h ean e an te e take for tor any amount b Q a forty f hc s feet 1 belIeve beleVe that the tho South S Jordan people will be willing to dO dOthe dOthe the square thins thing and n fi basis for tor our primary p pe claims which would be Just and e to all parties and s satisfactory to the whole state ThorO Is ono one more point t that at we do not teel eal Z entirely satisfied that is It the pr proposed Improvements are OUt 1090 fe feet t Of water will willbe wille be b e developed which it f 1 wilt will water a acres res of land or furnish one second s foot of water for seventy acres that hat t Is one second foot of oC water vatar for lor Be onty acres will be furnished at the o f t the respective p u canals allowing nothing f or r losses s in transit We claim that it would t take ke 25 per cent for tor the entire amount of losses B Ie leaving but ThO feet f for tor distribution to thO farmers In I tho he t varIous laterals along the Canals This w would uld turn furnish Ish wat r for 2100 aCres at tho above duty or for Cor the OO acreS It i t would mean one second toot for or ninety three acres Wo We look upon this ne an attempt to I pread s the water over ocr area anS than the tho supply Is capable of IrrIgating Our neighbors on the east cast side of the val valey al alley ley i ey using water from the tho Big Cot creek are In this condition ani we e 0 ethe the evil results Report or of IrrIgation In as per bull buli No o 1 for lEt 1100 by Elwood Mend Mead says sas ot of this particular creek Big Cottonwood ct cre ek does coes Slut not furnish enough water to irrigate tn the lend already co covered ered b by ditches from om It Farmers have consequently to reSort to earl early Irrigation with the nope that ex cx quantities applied In the spring months will tide thom them over the months ot or drouth when the discharge or of the stream tream streams Is i s low Therefore we wish to avoid this condition It if possible Another point to what extent art are the lower canals to be taxed fore penH or of pumpIng water Into upper canals The South would be un unjust just for titers t a In Ia pumpinG all amount beyond that bien they accent In lieu of oC their primary right while tile the and Salt Lake people that the lower canals wilt will be requIred to assist In pumpInG water Into th upper canals to the extent tent ot of the of the lower canals and If this point Is In not conceded In favor or of the tho Salt Lake want nothing do with the scheme because the or of pumping additional second foot teet into their canal would be too gT great for lor them to bear beur It If thIs committee which was apPOinted at the meeting was held heid at the East Jordan meeting house when Mr 11 New Newel 1 was present and assured the tho people th that t their rights In Utah J e would be re respected respected and protected and the committee Instead ot of protecting the rights came for forward w ward rd with the tho proposition for the th canal companies to surrender of oC them At Irs firs they said that It If the companies ask for more than forty second feet teet they would kill kUl the scheme but when they saw aw that there was no possIble chance to get the companIes to accept forty second feet teet the they said that It maY go on a baals or of fifty and no now they say they will gives gIve Us sixty To us It looks a as though this committee Is attempting to accomplish by diplomacy what they ought to accomplish by fair dealings By th tha wn way they were only appointed as a temporary committee to act as an emergency committee until euch h time as the tho stockholders ot of the tho several canal companies could be called together and appoint a permanent committee to act as an agent between them and the tho gO gor relation in to the proposed Im Improvements improvements In the tho Utah lake Now as n a matter ot of fact the stockholders have never had a chance Chanco to appoint a contraiL commit tee that in their would represent sent their Interests the tho agents Now It If such a committee could be appointed and they would take taka up the matter of adjusting the differences bl be between tween the Individual stockholders In the companies before they undertaKe to ad just the differences between the corn com companies panics I think Wilt that harmony could be brought out ana J basis could be agreed upon that would na De satisfactory to aU all parties concerned And nd again n for tor this committee to say that the South Jor dan Is entitled to only second feet teet Ir if they had their just duos We Vo look upon this statement as an absurdity and andas andas as an attempt to misrepresent the thc actual facts Nineteen hundred and three was on one ot of the tho dr est seasons that we over ever The South Jordan according to the tho commissioners report aern averaged ed 64 for a period of 1 days das from March 4 to Oct 1 and for tor the thu months of May r Jun and July which Is the tho period when the farmers need the tho water most we aver averaged aged second feet teet There has hag been but one or two years ears In the entire history ot of canals when we have not received more than sixty second feet In the earl early part or of the season In the tho latter Jatter part wo we do not require so much th therefore It would ouM be much better for tor us to have haye ninety second feet teet In tRio first part and be closed down to thirty second ec nd feet In the latter part more could be said In defense of oC the tho position taken b by the tho South Jordan Canal com company an hut but these are some ot cC our ideas somewhat crudely expressed sed and Mr Ir Editor as titus time and space Is valuable I shan shall close trUsting that you may see get your our way 3 clear to Permit this to go before the public In the columns or of your most valuable paper r myself yours most respectfully JOSEPH 1 West n est Jordan |