Show A ANSWER IN WATER SUIT i Electrical Power Company 1 Replies Citys Action CLAIMS RIGHT TO USE WATER 7 The TarbotLamson Company Asserts it Acquired Right toUso for Power I Purposes all the Water Owned by tho City in the Jordan and Also I Sufficient Water to Irrigate 20000 I Acres of land City Piles Answer to CulmerJennings Paving Com I panys Suit J The Salt Lake City Water and Electrical Elec-trical Power company yesterday filed I I Its answer to the injunction suit brought against it by the city to prevent pre-vent the power company from taking or Interfering m any way with the In tho II city1 water In the Jordan river answer It is J admitted that the company diverted the water owned by the city j from the channel and used ft to run Its tflcctrlcal generating machinery and 4 turned It hark Into the citys canal below be-low the plant It Is then alleged that on April 20 1807 C M Dull acquired rdnn river to I water rights in the Jordan take water from the river and to return re-turn it after using it for power purposes pur-poses that on June 01 J 1807 W L Stevens acquired similar rights and on December 11 1807 Allan G Lamson appropriated the oncslxth of the entire en-tire flow of the river owned by tho city to U2lC for power purposes ami return undiminished Inxiuantlty and undctc rlorated In quality and also appropriated appropri-ated the then unappropriated water of the river sufficient to irrigate 200000 acres of land It is then alleged that I the defendant succeeded to all the rights of Dull Stevens and Lamson and that it has tho right to use all l l the 1 citys water for power purposes and to return It Into the citys canal at a lower level and that It has the right to take from tho river in addition sufficient suffi-cient water to irrigate 20000 acres of land JandIt Is then set out that the defendant I I constructed channels to carry the water wa-ter to Its work and built a flume to convey It back to the citys canal That the flume vas constructed on land owned by D C Dodge and that the city has only an casemen over said land It is then stated that the water was turned In and the power plant operated by it when tho city by force of men tore out the flume and changed ths headgatea so that tho water was prevented from flowing Into the channel o chan-nel constructed by the defendant to carry It to its works It Is prayed that the plaintiffs action be dismissed that It be decreed that the defendant has the right tense for power purposes and return all the water wa-ter In the Jordan owned by the city that the defendant be empowered to regulate the hoadgates at the Jordan Narrows that the temporary restrainIng restrain-Ing order issued I in favor of the city 5 be dissolved and that the city be enjoined en-Joined from Interfering with the de fondants right to take and use the water I |