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Show LAKBOWKERS OBJECT UTAH LAKE PROJECT Many Gather to liegister Disagreement Dis-agreement As to't'lans For Drainage; One District Claims Excessive Cost. .More than SKI land owners from various sections of flail county met wiih the board of county commission commis-sion in protest agaitfl the including of their lands in the I'lah Lake Com ml Drainage district. .Meetings were held in the forenoon and Ihe alU'iunou in the court room of .1 1 ilge Ceorgc i'. Parker. Jacob l.vans of Salt Lake Cily, as attorney for a large number of landowners in the norili end of the counl.v, filed a protest against the including of Mie lands in the ilis-Iriet, ilis-Iriet, alleging that, no benefits will be derived therefrom and that if the lirojict should be allowed to proceed pro-ceed the lands would he irreparably (iamagi'd. lie also alleged that the vost would be so excessive that it would become confiscatory, since ihe owners would lose their holdings hold-ings from their failure to pay the necessary costs. .Mr. Evans challenged chal-lenged the right of the county commission com-mission and the board of control of the district to .include these lands in the project, anil to tax the lands ,;or I he sa me. Similar petilions were also presided pre-sided by representatives from landowners land-owners in Springville, Spanish Fork, the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, the Austin P.ros., the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Kailroad and the Denver and liio Grande Western railroad company. Announcement was made by A. ). Sinool, chairman of the board of county commission, that a meeting will be held in the l'rovo high school auditorium Saturday morning at 10 o'clock for tile purpose of explaining explain-ing the purpose of the project and the benefits that would be derived, lie held that most of those present did not svviu to have a thorough understanding un-derstanding of the aims of the project. pro-ject. Commissioner J. W. Gillmfin pleaded with the landowners to be careful not !o deslroy the organization organiza-tion that has been made, but to maintain Ihe same, even it nothing should ho clone further with the pro-jut, pro-jut, lie declared that the time would come when lite landowners of the Utah lake region would need such an organization to protect their interests. |
