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Show DECREE SIGNED IN NQTEOWATERCASE Last. Chapter Written in Suit That Has Been Before Court Nine Years. INVOLVES WATER RIGHTS IN LITTLE COTTONWOOD Termination of Action Ucgnn in 1002, Affecting Alinosll 1000 Persons. Judge C. "W. Xorso Friday signed the dcerco in the famous case involving the rights. to the waters of LitUc Cottonwood Cotton-wood creek and the decree is now a mutter mut-ter of record in tho office of the clerk of the district court. The suit was filed, on July 23, 1fl02, by tho Union & East' Jordan Irrigation Irriga-tion company against the TiichardB Irrigation Irri-gation company and about 700 others interested in the water rights of the creek. Tho taking of evidence was commenced com-menced on January 3-1, 3007, and wa? continued from time lo time until Sop-tcmbcr Sop-tcmbcr 21, 3907, when it was concluded. The court in its decree adjudicates the water only among the various ditches and irrigation canals in which the par-tics par-tics to the action arc- interested. Between the year 1S4S and up to and including the year 3S06 the primary water rights appropriated by the various var-ious ditches amounted to 91.70 second feet of the flow of the stream. The Primary Bights. The e.ourl decrees that the following seven ditches arc tho appropriators of and entitled to tho primary rights in second feet. North Dospaln 0C .South Dcspaln L'S Greenwood .. ,1. Brady No. 1 : '. .11 Brady No. " 10 BlFshiger OS Van ValUenhtito S3 None of the above ditches is entitled to any of the surplus water of tln creek. The balance of tho primary rights, amounting to 92.01 second feet, is distributed dis-tributed to these ditches iu the following follow-ing proportion: Tanner 1-1S Richards I'-IS Cahoon & Maxllcld 5-1S Union and Jordan 5-IS Walker 2-1S Tho surplus waters of the creek are distributed among the following fourteen four-teen ditches, the capacities of which are in second feet: Richards 11.1 Union & Jordan 16. 2S Cnhotm & Mnxfield '. -I-'.TS Walker j IS. 30 Tanner 2.Sfi Blsslnjrcr 1.50 Greenwood 5.06 North Oespaln .' 4. To South Dospaln 10.27 Krown ....,-0. -Sandy '. GO. Nlcol .-..2U.r,U Johnson or Utile Nicol J.I2 Union and East Jordan 00. S 11.10 The Excess. When tho water in the stream exceeds the quantity necessary to supply the ditches above mentioned the court decrees de-crees that the following ditches are entitled en-titled lo the excess accordiug lo their capacity as given 111 second, feet: . Stirlnsnibor "1-03 Thompson n.vj Grim lb 1 Last Chanco 15-7-1 Ly 111 11.7$ Hanson '. 1 Uaker .... 1.5 The court nppointcrtj O. II. Foulko commissioner to carry out l.he terms of the decree and divides the expense of the trial among the various ditches and irrigation companies interested in the water. |
