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Show THE LAND CASE. oth!irorSpdI Importance Ja To. daj's Hcilnj When the XEwswcntto press on Saturday Mr. XV. E. Langford,farm er, of this city, was Under cross-examination) cross-examination) and with his re-direct examination the afterncMja'a sitting closed. This morning Mr. Charlw Mo-tyn Mo-tyn Owen, O. E , was re-called and produced samples of 'water, among others, taken from UlB Great Salt Lakeand tho ponds on the land in di.pute overlying tho bait deposit, Ion Mv.sm, lsga. Mr. Stephens, however, oljjected to the lntroduc tion of these inevidenee, chitfly for the reason that there was no dispute as to there hain3 incrdstations of salt on certllii portions of the land In qotstiou and water on the salt. Specimens of water from the artesian arte-sian wells and elsewhere on the disputed dis-puted land in near proximity to the lake were also submitted and objected ob-jected to a? evidence. In cross examination by Mr Stephens, the witness said he had hal slight txperience or an .attempt to irrigate lands tt hkh werelmpreg-uated werelmpreg-uated with alkaline matter to some extent, and by waters from an artesian arte-sian well of lesi density thau the one in question. Tne combination if the mineral solution iu the water and the mineral in the earth had hltbertibeeu fatal to all growth that alrtaJy existed anil, would, he feared, make it Very difficult for any crop tc Be grown In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of the Clreat Salt Lake about three miles east of tho land in nuet-Jton.- Mr. John B. Meredith, farmer, Kaysvllle, Davis county, Utah, was the next witness, called this afternoon. after-noon. He. was one of the three part iJbers who quit claimed Uie land now Wcupled by Jeremy & Co. and in bis opening testimony gae similar statements to thoo made by Mr. Lmgford, his former partner, on Saturday. He was questioned as to Uie overflow ing of the lake upon these lands, their condition and character o far as his know ledge extended, ex-tended, and as to th constructtonof Uie "big dam." Witness said he furnished the funds for the construction construc-tion of Uie latter, in order to enclose a large body of water tba; at thf time formed an inlet to the Great Salt Lake, for the purpo-e of manufacturing manu-facturing salt by solar evaporaUon. Inquiry prxs e ling |
