Show WATER WILL BE SCARCE Testimony in the Utah Lalcc and Jordan River Case The testimony in the water case taken ken l yesterday on behalf of Salt Lake City and the canal companies in rebuttal re-buttal was largely directed to show that there was real necessity this year for the city and the canal companies lo exercise the right they claim to Impound the water in Utah lake during dur-ing the winter season for use in summer sum-mer time the lake at present being 17Vi filches below compromise point and about 12 Inches lower than It was u this season last year W N Creer uJ Spanish Fork O H Mower of Hob bio Creek canyon Charles A Wilckon Jr of Woodland and Ellwell Iverson oC Pleasant Grove all testified that Utah lake was fed by streams from thcir various vicinities that the snowfall snow-fall In their neighborhoods was Very light not 50 per cent of the average fall and not as much as in the very dry season of 1SSS0 In Hobble Creek canyon Mower said there was only 501 1 inches of snow against a fall of 12 feet In fair seasons Wilckon said in his neighborhood there was ncfShbolhood only li to 2 feet where as an aerage fall would he l 4 or 5 feet Up Provo canyon he said thero was only 3 feet against an average oS or 10 feet TJioy all thought there would n belittle be-little water flowing into the lake this season and that it was exceedingly doubtful 1C I the lake would reach compromise com-promise point The other witnesses examined in rebuttal wore E D Perkins I C Gemmell F C Kclsey A F Doremus H L Bowden AG Lawson L II Murdock James Mills |