Show MOVE TO HALT USES OF LAKE WATER BALKED Petition of State Engineer in Diversion Dispute Denied De Do- Denied nied by Court Special 1 to The Telegram PROVO June 8 8 Judge Judge A. A V. V Watkins Watkins Wat Wat- kins in the Fourth district court on I Wednesday denied a petition filed tiled by State Engineer Geor George e M. M Bacon as a preliminary to court action to stop diversion of water from Utah lake I storage in benaU of Salt Sl Lake City i corporation and other owners of ol water wa- wa vater ter er there Mr Bacons Bacon's petition was directed against James A A. A. A Gardner and A. A J. J Evans Ivans both of Lehi in behalf behall of Salt Lake City corporation Utah and Salt Lake ake Canal company East Jordan Canal company North Jordan Canal company and South Jordan Canal company It asked that Mr Gardner and irid Mr Evans be cited cUed into court to how show cause why thc they should not cease diversion of the disputed water The petition set out that the thc Draper irrigation company was withdrawing cubic feet per second and the Utah Lake Irrigation company at the ate rate of oC cubic feet per second The petition was filed tiled at noon and denied by Judge Watkins Watkins Wat- Wat kins who held that it did not state sufficient facts to warrant the court in assuming jurisdiction Appeal Made to State Engineer Thousands of acres of crops will willbe willbe willbe be ruined and several hundred Utah county farmers will be made destitute destitute desti- desti tute ute if iC the Utah Lake Distributing company is forbidden from using irrigation irrigation irrigation ir ir- ir- ir water from Utah lake a committee com corn from Utah county told State Engineer George M. M Bacon Wednes Wednes- day The committee composed of oC Abel John Evans president of oC the distributing distributing company Mark Austin and Edvard Ed Ed- ward vard B. B Jones appealed to Mr l Bacon to o desist from his announced plan of shutting off oct the water supply The federal bureau of reclamation reclamations i is s beginning an investigation of oC the possibilities of Utah lake according ac nc- cording to information received Wednesday by William R. R Wallace chairman of the Utah water storage commission The proposed dike has been discussed dis dis- cussed it was pointed out not only for or the purpose of reclaiming certain land and in the shallow portions of oC the lake ake but to reduce the evaporation surface as well Th The local office of at the bureau of oC reclamation has not yet received Instructions in in- concerning the ion tion but it is expected ions will be received in irs a short time from rom the bureaus bureau's field office in Den Den- ver The annual evaporation at Utah lake ake according to figures compiled by y the bureau is from one half to thirds two the capacity of the lake This would be eliminated through some engineers believe Senator William H. H Kin King has endeavored en to have the proposed project placed on the emergency employment employ employ- employment ment meat list and to provide federal funds for Cor or th the in the event pending relief measures pass S. S |