Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 7 | Bacon Clears Water Ruling on Utah Lake

BACON CLEARS WATER RULING ON UTAH LAKE Engineer Engine r Says Allotment Has s sNo No Bearing Upon Rights S The tentative allotment of Utah lake water for this se e season son soa as set up by the state engineer has no bearing whatever whatever whatever what what- ever upon water rights State Engineer Engineer Engineer Engi Engi- neer George M- M Bacon informed City Commissioner George D. D Keyser in a letter Saturday The apportionment is intended however to represent the maximum amounts which the respective respective respective tive water users shall receive this season season sea- sea son The letter was written in reply to Commissioner Keysers Keyser's communication tion Friday asking the state engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer to confirm the city's assumption that its allotment of Df feet acre-feet does docs not Include a purchased right of ot feet acre-feet in the East Jordan Irrigation company BACONS BACON'S LETTER The letter follows The liThe tentative allotment of the waters of Utah lake is supposed to represent the maximum amounts which the respective water vater users shall receive during this season to satisfy their immediate requirements for this season only The liThe state engineer has no power to determine a water right and the arrangements arrangements ar as- for tor distribution for this year are distinctly to be without prejudice to rights Your various letters the thc last two months might easily give th the impression impression impression sion that Salt Lake Cit City claims ownershIp ownership ownership owner owner- ship of the corpus of the thc w water ter of Utah lake The law of water rights and court decisions covers merely right to use and it is this right to usein usein use usein in this particular season which I am dealing with and not total claims WOULD OBJECT In a letter to Mr Bacon Friday it was strongly strongly- indicated by Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Keyser that the city will emphatically emphatically em em- object to that officials official's recent recent re recent re- re cent apportionment of Utah lake water Water water wa wa- ter if he intended to include in the city's allotment the East Jordan water The city has already approved Mr Bacons Bacon's allotment to it of acre- acre feet of df water from Utah lake In the statement explaining the allotment however the letter pointed out Mr Bacon noted under the heading Booth Decree the figure with the explanation including purchase from East Jordan Commissioner Keyser stated in the letter that in his opinion the allotment allotment allotment allot allot- ment does not include the East Jordan company rights and asks t that at the thc state engineer confirm this view The letter followed the monthly meeting of the board of canal presidents presidents presidents dents in the office of City Engineer W. W D. D Beers chairman Friday The conference was concerned only with routine matters however Mr Beers said and no mention was made of oi the Utah lake water problem