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Show M INMATE Suggested That Committee of Arbitration Be Appointed. i I Special to The. Tribune, i PROVO, IX 11. Last evening, before 1 ;i meeting of citizens held in the Provo I Commercial cluh. chairman C. F. Decker of a committee recently appointed to consider con-sider the effei t mi tlie water supply of the city of Juoge C. W. Horse's decision in the water Mill of Provo Reservoir . ompany v. P'oo City et al., made a report of the water previously used by Hie city, showing ' that the quantity awarder to the ity in the decision is entirely en-tirely disproportionate to its needs. The ir-port calls attention to the decision giving giv-ing Provo City four cubic leet per second I for its waterworks system and states, on f information, that Ogdeu has twenty sec-i sec-i ond feet In its system and is developing j mere water through driving artesian wells, and that Logan lias ten to ten and i one-half second feet In its waterworks i svstem. Roy Lewis of the committee stated that i Jesse" Knight, speaking for the Reservoir . oinpany, had informed him that he be-' be-' lieved if a committee on arbitration was f appointed by the city commission and the I Reservoir company such a committee I could agree on a readjustment of the wa-l wa-l ter' distribution that would je acceptable1 ' to all parties and which could be made the basis of the decree to be rendered by ! Judge Morse in the ease. T. F. Wentz i stated that he believed the Provo Res-I Res-I ervoir company ami the defendants (other I than Provo Cltyi would agree to the city I retaining' the water (from six to twelve second feet, depending on the season) now i used in its waterworks system and which I tile city hatj piped into the system from ( springs. City Commissioner LeRoy Dixon,' who ' presided at the meeting, stated that President Pres-ident J. R. JMurdoek bar! expressed a willingness will-ingness to compromise the questions in ' dispute rather than have the case ap-l ap-l pealed. After some discussion, it was i decided to await the result of an attempt j l,y the city commission and the Provo ' Reservoir company to reach an agree-I agree-I ment before expressing an opinion on j whether or not a mass meeting shall be ' alled for an expression from the citizens f on the advisability of appealing the case. |