Show B Bacons Bacon's ons on's s Rejection j of f Piute Piu Water Request Surprises Land Board I Action of ot State Engineer George I M. M Bacon Dacon in rejecting an application application application tion o of the Pluto Reservoir lITigation Irrigation company for tor an III bion sion on of ot water use to lo acres of ot land in In addition to lo Iho tho already held b by the Iho company was wasa a surprise to lo the state stale land board according to John T. T executive ex ex- secretary According to Mr 11 meetings meetings meet meet- ings have been held to settle bettle differences differences dif dif dif- between the irrigation company compan and the state in order that settlers may be to take up the land under the Plute Pluto project in line with invitations sent broadcast by the chamber of ot commerce advertising ad for settlers to como come to Utah The state according to the secretary see sec has loaned on the project and the state is Js Interested ho said in getting gelling the project up to the standard of others of ot like liko magnitude Sf so that that- settlement may go forward without further de de- de- de lay Jay GRANT DETRIMENTAL In rejecting the application for tor additional acreage rights Mr Bacon Bacon Ba Baw con held that the grant would be he unfair to oth r projects where settlers settlers set set- tiers have havo already broken the ground and established residence these persons the engineer contends contends contends con con- tends having havinga a superior right to consideration as against a project dealing only with prospective settlement set set- of ot raw land Mr 11 Bacon also hed that the te grant would be to fo public wel fare The Tho state stale engineer supports Ms Ills position In a lengthy opinion in which ho refers reters In passing to a ad d decision n handed down by Justice Elias Ellas Hansen of ot the tho supreme court courtin in a similar action Involving the creek Irrigation project Mr lr Bacon asserts that the Piute concern concern con con- on cern during the past ten years rears has made no progress in development of or orthe the land and ad concludes FOUR FIRMS PROTEST Those who have lla studied the general general gen gen- eral oral situation as regards the tho settlement set sat of ot raw lands even even with a a. awater water right available are pretty definite in In their conclusion that for a number of ot years to come this line Une of ot effort eort is distinctly difficult dif dl- and is asking of ot the proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed settler hardships which are aro wholly unnecessary and laying a burden which few tew seem willing t td tO undertake l Four our companies protested the thC granting of ot tho the company's application the the lon the Abraham Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion company Delta Irrigation company Utah Central Water Vater company company com corn pany and Melville Irrigation n com corn pany |