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Show LAKE " ASSOCIATION WLLJOLD MEETING Grievances Against Ihe Sa If ; Lake Wafer' Companies Will He Discussed. Spe. ial lo The Tribune. AMKRICAN KORK. Jan. I. The Utah Lake association, whoso Interests arc in the Utah lake, will hold si meeting in this city tomorrow, during which time the members will dlscusu means for Ihe settlement of their grievances against the Salt Lake water companies who receive re-ceive irrigation water from the Jordan river. The trouble Res in the dam which tbe Irrigation companies have installed at the month of the Jordan river. It Is contended con-tended tbat they bnvc Installed, contrary to agreement, borne twenty-four lo thir-ty-rlx Inches of planking in the dam and It is tbls which the association intends to demand removed, and, in faet. all obstruction ob-struction which Impedes tho flow of the river at this point. The action of Salt Lake county and the irrigation companies in causing tho waters of the t'tab lake to be held hack, it is claimed, is resulting In an immense, amount of damage to the people of tbls county, who own land along the shores of the lake. Tbe s-hore land is very level In most place?, and the grade is m small that the slightest rise in the level of the lake will cause an immense acreage, to become flooded. The annual meeting of tho association wan recently bold In Prove, at which the following officers were elected f0r tbe coming year- Andrew Knndson. president; presi-dent; Joel Johnson, vice president; 13. S. Illnkley, secretary and treasurer. K. S. lllnkley. Joseph 13. Green and A. V.. Anderson An-derson were re-elected lo serve on the Utah lake commission during the com- ing year. |