Show LITIGATION TION OVER OVERWATER OVERWATER OVERWATER WATER RIGHTS DRAWS ORA WS CLOSER City Informed Company Is Pumping From Utah Lake in Defiance Opening of or the entire Utah lake water rights controversy to litigation drew closer Tuesday when it was learned earned by the cit city that the Utah take Lake Lake Irrigation company headed by Heber I C. C Smith of Sandy was pumping lake I water out in deC defiance nce of an order from the he state engineer that it with other canal companies cease using their secondary rights The Draper Irrigation company another mother of those ordered to cease us ing ine ng water from the lake has hac shut off I its pumps W. W A. A Knight former i commissioner of the lake reported MAY TAKE STEPS It is the companies which have been ordered to stop using the water which are expected to take lake steps in court courto to o enjoin enforcement of or State Engineer Engi neer George orge M. M Bacons Bacon's orders to cease using it The crisis became more serious Tuesday when City Commissioner George jeorge D. D Keyser dispatched a second letter to State Engineer Geor George e M t Bacon demanding that city rights be protected Commissioner Keyser Tuesday re x-e a letter from Mr Bacon stating that hat the latter would at once petition the he court to make an order restraining restraining restrain restrain- ing secondary water rights in the lake from being further depleted at this time ime under an apportionment decree entered some time ago Simultaneously Mr Bacon an an- the appointment of Harry C C. Jessen Jesen former city engineer as commissioner com corn missioner for Utah lake and the Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan river Mr Jessen who was replaced replaced re re- re placed as city engineer by the new administration will take the water commissioner post vacated when members of the board of at canal presidents presidents dents demanded that Mr Bacon remove remove remove re re- re- re move Mr Knight commissioner for Utah lake and Jordan river last year ear STATES CITY NEEDS Mr Keysers Keyser's letter to Mr Bacon stated staled the city will need a total of feet acre of the available feet acre of lake water this year The city's maximum draught will not occur until July and August Replying to Mr Bacons Bacon's letter of ol June 3 in which the state engineer engineers is s quoted as stating Any appeal to the he courts will be an idle gesture with no other result than the looting of oi the he lake by anyone who can an grab first Mr Keyser Kc writes Matters could not be worse than now The lake Is being looted and court decrees deeres es are n now w w being dIu |