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Show RESERVOIR COM SEEKS ITER RIGHTS Tunnel Contemplated to Utilize Supply From Gooseberry Creek. Subject to prior right of the Mammoth Mam-moth Reservoir company and its successors, suc-cessors, the Gooseberry & Cottonwood Irrigation company is seeking to obtain rights to the waters of melting snows and late spring rains in the headwaters of the Gooseberry, and to convey the water across the backbone of the Wasatch, Wa-satch, utilizing a tunnel, and to use the water as a supplementary supply to irrigate some 2700 acres around Fair-view, Fair-view, It is declared in the application filed yesterday with George F. McGonagle, state engineer, that the lands to be irrigated ir-rigated are in need of water in the summer sum-mer and fatl months. The Mammoth Reservoir company and its successor, the Price River Irrigation Irriga-tion company, built the Mammoth dam on the Gooseberry, which went out in 1917, with somewhat disastrous results to the lands under the project and still more so to the finances of the company. com-pany. The property was sold at sheriff's sale to the state, which, through the land board, has just agreed to complete com-plete arrangements for conveying the property and water claims back to the farmers, now organized as the Carbon Land, Water & Power company. The application of yesterday was filed by Leroy Rigby, for the Gooseberry & Cottonwood company. It explains that the water is to be gathered from seven tributaries to the upper Gooseberry, and the plan is to collect these waters in one canal and convey it by canal or pipe, the latter three feet in diameter, to the Cottonwood, where it would supply water pro rata to some twtnty-five ditches out of that stream. The water is to be gathered from April 1 to July 15 each year, and application appli-cation is made for twenty-five second feet, using high waters that the Mammoth Mam-moth company proposed to store, and which now are said to be running to waste in April, May and June, and in some seasons in July. |