Show UTAH ENGINEER I ALLOWS WATER TO SAVE CROPS CROPS' Utah and Salt Lake Canal Plant t Pumping Pumping Pumping- New Agreement ement Needed Pending a new agreement over the division of Utah lake waters Slate State Stata Engineer T. T H. H ys announced d Monday that no crops would be per milted to die in Salt Lake county while water remains in the lake lale to save them The level of the lake had fallen below below below be be- low 84 feet under compromise Mr Humpherys Humphers stated thus terminating the distribution agreement signed August August August Au Au- gust 2 by the seven canal companies pumping the lake water for IrrIgation irrigation irrigation tion in the county A itA new agreement Is 15 necessary Mr Humpherys said Until the factions in this controversy reach such an agreement however holders o of ot l lake ke rights will receive water This office will not permit crops to suffer while there is water In the lake to save them RESUME RESU PUMPING Mr Humpherys' Humpherys announcement was preceded Sunday by an order permitting permitting per per- milting the Utah and Salt Lak Lak Canal company previously shut down to resume resume resume re re- re- re sume pumping operations This c company together with the East t J Jordan Jor r- r dan Canal company and the Draper Irrigation company compan last Tuesday was to ce cease sc pumping its ui draft on the lake under the August 2 agreement agree ment At Atthe the time the state engineer cited the fact the companies companies' had exhausted their allotments of water under this agreement and could hope for no more until the level had reached 84 feet under un compromise Saturday afternoon however a delegation of more than farmers supplied by the Utah and S Salt lt Lake Canal company stormed the capitol and demanded that Mr Mr Humpherys permit them to be supplied with wat water r without which they declared valuable valuable able sugar beet and other crops would die PLAN COMMITTEE The farmers agreed to app appoint int a committee e to meet with Mr Humpherys Humph Humph- erys and representatives of other canal companies in an attempt to reach an agreement Meanwhile the state engi engineer eer visited the northern end of Utah lake Saturday night and after measurements measurements measurements measure measure- ments dis discovered the lake level had reached the 84 fe feet t point agreed upon Continued on Pace Fate Fourteen UTAH ENGINEER ALLOWS WATER TO SAVE CROPS Continued from Pace Paie Seven Sc for or the termination of the August 2 2 settlement As a result pumps of the Utah and Salt Lake Canal company began oper opel ting to take second feet of water allotted by the engineer They operated Saturday night and Sunday morning mornin until another north wind drove rove the lake water away from the channel hannel leading to the pumps At noon they were again shut down because of lack of supply Mr Humpherys Humphers said Monday that when the water comes back to the pumps the company is entitled to draw enough nough to insure second feet AGREEMENT NEEDED He stressed the need for a new agreement and while white expressing sympathy with Salt Lake City which ltd did not use its total allotment under the he August 2 agreement the engineer said aid he had no other recourse but butto to give the Utah and Salt Lake Canal company the water waler it demanded Mr Humpherys was awaiting word from rom Salt Lake as to its course of action and for a new agreement City Officials Study Water Issue City Commissioner George D. D Keyser Key Key- ser City Attorney Fisher Harris and R. R C. C Towler city hydraulic engineer were were in conference Monday Monday and were expected to decide soon upon a course of action for Salt Lake City The cit city through Mr Harris re- re re-I re Mr Humpherys Humpherys' request that the he city give its consent to turning second feet of flow into the Utah and Salt alt Lake canal f for r five days to save crops In a statement Mr Mr- Harris said Ut that t Salt Lake will wm be compelled compell to hold strictly accountable anyone to whom or by whom any part of its water may be je diverted The statement pointed out that the city offered an agreement to those on on whose behalf concessions were sought and that the offer was rejected without without with with- out an expression of willingness to negotiate a |