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Show WATER RIGHTS 11 F1DI . CMIES AFFECTED j Summit, Morgan. Davis and j Weber Interested in Weber 1 Hirer Survey. ;r Special to The Tribune. OGDEX. Sept. 13. The Legislature of 1305 enacted legislation affecting water rlgh'3 which, when Its provisions arc carried out, will undoubtedly result Iu extensive litigation. The law in Question Ques-tion Is found in the session laws of 1905, chapter 10S. In conformity with the provisions of this statute, the State engineer, during tho Incumbency of A. F. Doremus In the office, published notice that he was about to commence the survey of the Weber river system, which Includes not only the Weber river, as It Is commonly known, but also the Ogden river and all the tributaries thereof, and after the notice had been published he commenced the work of surveying the district, which was completed by his successor, Caleb Tanner, Tan-ner, and he selected Weber county as the county most convenient to the water users thereof This statement was filed on February 0. 1907, and the clerk of the District court In and for Ihe county of Wobor published tho notice, as rofiulred by law. This proceeding affects the rights of all the water tisers In Summit, Morgan. Davis and Weber counties. Just now thero arc three clerics In District Dis-trict Court Clerk Mattson's office record-lug record-lug the claims, according to the law. Seven hundred havo thus far been filed and the Indication.- are that the number num-ber will exceed one thousand. Six months time was given claimants in which to file claims for rights to use water from the Weber river system or water course after notice was given by the clerk, and all persons falling to file within thai time were forever barred and estopped from subsequently converting convert-ing any rights therctofoie acquired for I the use of the water. As said above, extensive as also expensive' ex-pensive' litigation Is certain to follow and the courts will be kept busy for a long while In settling the questions which will arise. |