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Show I GONTBOVERSY OVER I WATER H END i I Tentative Agreements Are I I Reached Which Will Terrni-jif Terrni-jif I nate All Differences. . i II NEW PLAN PROPOSED 11 Old Users Are to Be Given II Full Control of River's I I Normal Flow. jj H Spcclnl to Tho Tribune. P SPANISH YORK, Nov. 1. At Inst ft $ tho controversy over the distribution 'J of the water from tho 8trawberry val- fl ley reservoir pcema to be in a fair "A II 'vva-' to 1)6 aUusto mooting of the I I Strawberry Water Users association j v:as held yesterday afternoon, and ten-, ten-, jj tntivo ngreomonts reached which, it is I i believed, will result in the final sottlc- iiic:it of the voxinji problem by the first of the year. B-jtj "With all membora of tho association SliT present at tho session, a communica- H 111 lion from tho department of the lnte- $ If rior was read, in which an adjustment 5 R plan was proposed for the Rovornment i m project. According to tho proposal, K f R each land owner under tho project who 0 Ml wants water must sign a contract for juf tho amount desired upon a basis of V Flj twenty-four inchos per ncre. ; M The now plan fjives tho old users of wM Spanish Pork wntor, who nro members m of five separate water users' ii6S0cia- tions, lull control of tho normal flow gj of the river. This is estimated by J. L. Lytel, tho project engineer, at twonty-four Inches for 1925 acrea, This plnn (fives all the old wator users their original rights and tho privilege of bujinr from tho project such additional addi-tional water as they may require. Tho stipulated cost of a wator right from the project is $00 per acre. This right guarantees the holder twenty-four inches of wator per aero. As to tho other land owners, who liavo no water rights under tho old associations, thoj' arc to organize separately sepa-rately and deal diroctly with tho government. gov-ernment. Thcso owners include, the land holders in tho vicinity of Puyson, Santnquin nnd other tracts as far west as the water will reach. The estimated esti-mated cost of wator rights in this section, sec-tion, due to tho cost of cnnnls and a power plant for lifting tho water into tho lijgh line canal, is $8'0 por aero for twenty-four inches of water. AH Appear Satisfied. Work on tho proposed high lino canal ca-nal to this .district will ho started, tho government promises, just as soon as the water users sign their contracts. Tho routo has already been surveyed and the location of tho power plant 'determined. 'de-termined. Assurance is givon that water wa-ter will bo delivered to at least part of these lands for noxt season's crops. All who attended the meeting soemed thoroughly satisfied with tho plan. If it is carried out, as it very probably will be. all previous contracts ove'r which there was so much contention will bo declared void and returned to the persons who signed them as soon as the new form is delivered to the government officials. |