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Show BEAVER WINS WATER RIGHTS Long Controversy Ends in Victory. Rights Granted to City by Territorial Charter Sustained. Irrigators Further Down Stream Must Bo Content "With What Water Is Left Over. Three years of controversy over tho waters of Beaver river ended Thursday In a complete victory for Bcuvor City and the water-users who derive their rights from that municipality Mlnors-vlllo Mlnors-vlllo and the Irrigators who live further down tho stream must content themselves with the surplus left after the rights of tho Beaver claimants havo been jatls-flcd. jatls-flcd. Unique Fenturo3 in Contest. ABlde from the complications which arise In any case with S00 litigants, the contest has prebcntcd some unique features. fea-tures. Beaver. It was found, enjoys tho distinction of having a water-right guaranteed guar-anteed by Us charter granted In 1EC7 The charter says that Beaver City shall havo tho control of all tho waters of Beaver liver This was ono of tho strongest points rolled upon by the defendants nnd proved unansworablo. In the District court, boforc Judge Greenwood. Thursday, tho plaintiffs virtually threw up their, hands and agreed to tho appointment of' a committee which Is to ascertain tho duty of water for each party to the suit under the division claimed by Beaver City. When this committee makes Its report, tho court will enter Its final decree in accordanco therewith. A Mi-...,. T T.T T" . . 1 . 1 . i suv-.! iiv o . j. jt,rrhiiiiii, nuu lltia UL'eil associate counsel for Beaver City slnco tho beginning of the suit, returned to Salt Lake yestecday. nights of Water-Users Defined. "This settlement leaves Beaver with tho same amount of water It had before the case was begun." ho said " The result, re-sult, however, will be to define tho rights of an the water-users along the river and prevent tho controversies that havo arisen from time to time In the past. As a matter of fact, the cntlro stream was appropriated many years ago. and subsequent subse-quent filings wero made upon Hood waters. wa-ters. Thus, several years of high water established new rights nnd led to ' claims against thoso who had acquired shares of the normal How of -the stream." So far us Mr Ryckman has been able to discover. Beaver Is the only city In the State that enjoys a water-right binder a Territorial charter, granted nt a time when thero wero no ndverso claimants. |
