Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-05-26 | Page 4 | Utah Lake Very Low

UTAH LAKE VERY LOW vJEesult Is That Water Takers Are Peeling Apprehensive President O P Miller of the Jordan stake was In the city yesterday He says the water In Utah lake is 13 t inches below compromise point and asa as-a result of this the owners of water rights in the various canals coming out of the Jordan are in anything but i a pleasant frame of mind In fact I some of them ho said have expressed ex-pressed fears that their water clITrnly will bo short this year There is much more water coming down from the hills than a year ago but much of this ia being absorbed by the farmers on the benches over which the drying I winds of late have passed It Is possible pos-sible that the lake may rise to compromise com-promise point later on however