Show CITYS RIGHTS IN CANYON WATER CLAIMANTS INTERFERING INTERFER-ING WITH THEM So Commissioner Westerneld Appeals to Councilmen for Rules to Aid Him in Protecting Citys Interests Land and Water Commissioner Westerfield appeared before the Committee Com-mittee on Irrigation the City Council last evening and askedthat steps be taken11 to pass an ordinance establishing establish-ing rules which he might follow in protecting pro-tecting the citys water rights InPar leys canyon As evidence of the need of such rules Mr Westcrfield said he was having trouble with water right claimants In the canyon now some of whom In slstqd that he had no right to Interfere with them Don Carlos Young was one of the number who Mr Westerfleld said was using more water than he was entitled tobut when the Commissioner Commission-er cut the How down In Youngs ditch Young would wait until the Commissioner Commis-sioner left and then turn It In again Mr Wcsterficld also reported that the Sumnier Resort company which claims halfrof the water Jlowlng In the Laird ditch objected to the city taking Its portion of water above the resort and letting the remainder run down the ditch I ditchBELLIGERENT BELLIGERENT RANCHERS Young has also threatened to sue the city If his alleged rights are further interfered with and another water user ordered Wcsterficld off his premises The committee after discussing the matter at some length directed Mr Westerfield to protect the citys rights to the best of his ability and the City Attorney was Instructed to draft an ordinance to prevent campers from befouling be-fouling the waters of the canyon For the further protection of the water supply the Committee on Waterworks Water-works decided to recommend that seven Inspectors be employed in the city to prevent waste The pay decided upon was 2 per day Owners of rights In the Kennedy ditch filed a petition setting out that they were riot getting their share of the water A hearing will be had next Friday evening The proposition of T M Thomas and H B Cole to sell to the city certain rights In Big Cottonwood canyon was rejected TO REPAIR PAVEMENT The Committee on Streets decided to recommend that not to exceed 5000 be expended on repairing the eight blocks of pavement laid by the CulmerJcn nlngs Paving company and that the Board of Public Works be authorized to advertise for bids for the work City Engineer Kelsey says that the cost of all repairs needed will exceed 13000 The same committee laid over the petition of the Univeslty Regents asking ask-ing that the streets and sidewalks approaching ap-proaching the new buildings be put In better repair John Cooks claim for 1100 damages to less than a quarter of an acre of land which he owns on the west side of the Jordan canal was turned clown Cook complains that the cannl ruined a spring which he owned The committee found that the land was not worth to exceed 10 and that the seepage from the canal had benefited It |