Show TRYING TO BUY CANAL RIGHTS Jordan Marrows Company Believed to be Behind Offers to Parties Interested in the South Jordan Canal Company The Salt Lake City Water and Electrical Elec-trical Power company is realizing some of the difficulties which confront It In its attempt to appropriate practically all thewater of the Jordan river Tho four canal companies as well as the city are cither opposing the power companys pretensions in the courts or contemplating doing so and the action of the power company in building a new dam in the rIver has had the effect of making the opposition more determined deter-mined The power company it Is said has started out on a plan lo disarm the canal oompanles especially the South Jordan company The stock holders In that company are mostly parties who own land Irrigated by the companys system and It Is slated that the power company Is now cndeavoilng to buy out the landowners and stockholders stock-holders of the South Jordan so that It can absolutely control that company A number of the owners have been approached ap-proached and have received offers for their holdings at figures a good deal above their normal value It is said these ofiers are being made on behalf of the power company although It does not appear openly as the party In interest inter-est Sutllcient has been done lo make the farmers think their property is I very valuable to somes people and they are slow to commit themselves |