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Show THE KnOSIIAItKH WATER IllSI'IITE. Slatemeal of tke inels by a CorrM- pondant. Judge Illneklnirn's Diclsloii. (Oorrsspeadsnce or Ids IrasaKBT ITBWS.I ICooaharein has Uen deacribad mv oral tlmea In the Ntiwa already and I will therefore not attempt another deacrltlon now. What Is probably leas known, and might be of aomo Interaat lo )our readers, is that we havo been sultcrlng greatly from water for Irrigation Irriga-tion utwts during Hie last three or four years. In IH74 and lr!6 liteo or lour families ca.ne here by Invitation In-vitation of Jo-epli . Vouug, ttoeu pnsldent ofetevierouiiiity, orwl.ul Is uow known aa Hevler etutke. lu 1S7U seven more selltaie came, aud In the last uiDLllullrU year the first ditch Ursa tabell UUI. 1 he stllletllent CutllllllloU to glow until lanl 5, when ILu aumil grain raised In the settlement teathed about l,1,oua bushels, llul now in-tu-luetioed our mislortunc lu variuat. When we fl-tt liegau to take out ditches there were three ranchmen located at the hind of the stream from which wu git Water (Oiler I leek). Duilug Ihe years lbvj to ISM niuis raltla ramo 111 thore, and, regaidteMufuur rlghle for we were locatetl 11 them they comtiiemcd to take tut ditches and Ir rlgato laud, llelng a iate loving people, peo-ple, wo tried lu near with them lor some lime, until, lu lbaO, Ihey Intruded In-truded lu rucll an client that It be' ame of vital Inijttawe lo out settlement thai wo should try I slop further eu-rreachmriils eu-rreachmriils ujon our rights. In answer lo our complaints, liowoti, tney denied our right It auy water at all, and In the summer id Ibl'J dried us up completely. Or! February 151b, lSiO, wo brought suit against Ihem lu Iho Irlstrli t ram at t'rovo, nnd were sub-wi'mswI sub-wi'mswI to U there tor trial on Decern-lr2i:h. Decern-lr2i:h. , , , We claim that Ihe creek Is large enough lo water from Ion) to -MH acres, while Ilia defsiulanta Insist that nil of this walsr Is necessary to Irtlgato about too to 7's)acree which they are doing, totally Ignoring thu two to loot) acres which the people uf Kin.sln.reW have baeu Irilgallng III years n-.t. Is. (i. Iajnii. KuOSIItHKM, Piute Co., Dec. 2.1,1891. Judgu llUckblirn decided Ihe Koo-harem Koo-harem water suit at Provo on Halurday, Halur-day, after a trial eitcndlugovorsoina days. The Koosharem ieopl got Ihreo-tenthsofthe water until Ilia filial decree, aud Mr. Jacob Jacobeon ha been aptwlnted a commlsiloiier lo divide di-vide Ihe.water nnd tike farther trill-loony. trill-loony. ThaJudgeanJaltorneys havo arranged bi visit Iho place In epieatlon alter thu February term id court. |