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Show Utah Lake Water Shortage Forecast By City Engineer Lack of Needed Supply for Irrigation Revealed to Farmers, Sertoua (horUg of UUh lak water wa-ter for IrrlgaUoa purpoaaa loom here he-re uee of decreaaa In preciplUtloa and cold weather, W. D. Beer. Sail Lak City engineer, told lak water near, at meting with But- Engineer Georg M. Bacon at th capltol n Wadneaday. Th water uaara met with US tut engineer to dlacuaa th futur of the lak and t outline plana for allotment of water. Mr. Ben aald In praaant capacity of th lak at 10.000 acr.feet lower than at th tarn Urn last year, brought about by IT per' rant decrees de-crees b) anowfall and ether prec I pita pi-ta lion, and th cold weather during February. BCTAIM JKSSItt Durlng th me!wj th rvpraaenta-tlv rvpraaenta-tlv of th five aaaoriated canal companies, com-panies, primary water user, and secondary sec-ondary water users, voted to retain H. C. J tea an aa water commissioner of the lake at a aalary of I2U a month with I7 for annual ipenaea. Th controversy between th canal companies over th appointment of a deputy to act aa gatekeeper at Jordan Jor-dan Narrow, waa settled at th meeting meet-ing when the water users voted to pay th deputy MO a month aalary. The aalary will be paid on th bails of MUD by th Individual canal companies com-panies and I17.M by th associated canal companies, whlcn also agreed I furnish th deputy with a bouse. II BVCT OBOtKED Th flv companies, representing the primary water user, are the North Jordan Irrigation company, th South Jordan Canal company, tha F-aat Jordan Jor-dan Irrigation company, the Utah and Salt Lake Canal company and th Salt Lak and Jordan Canal company, a municipally owned organisation which trade, Utah lake water for culinary culi-nary water In Big Cottonwood can yon. Secondary water user ar the Utah Lak Distributing company and tha Draper Irrigation company. At th conclusion of th meeting Mr. Bacon Instructed Mr. Jeaeen to make a survey of the lake's condition, condi-tion, and report to a subsequent meeting meet-ing at which allotment will b mad. |