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Show CITY AUGMENTS ! IMPPLy Deed tp Cottonwood Rights Accepted Aeeptn f a dd to th power ifffhta of tha Ptotrrtss, company In Cottonwood canyon today by th city eotnmlaaion put an end to negotiation ne-gotiation which hav bean pending for many months for the uae of certain cer-tain water and brings to an end litigation lit-igation of long standing between th company and the city. By the purchase made today the city commission made available for Immediate use an additional SI per cent of the entire flow of Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood creeg to th clty'a water supply. For more than a yar the city has had tha-right to the waters of Tanner and Green dl tehee and to- ; gether they constitute approximately approxim-ately one-third of the entire flow of Big Cottonwood creek. At a loca-, tlon below the point of diversion the power rights "were held by th Progress company, which mad It impossible to take th water Into th city 'a conduit. Now, however, : the city 1 at liberty to divert tne water and turn them Int th city's system; . Bait Lmke City now own approximately approx-imately 90 per cent of the entire flow ef Bhjf Cottonwood creek as walnut an ownership of-31.1 of the flow two or three yeara ago. The pr'c la fSl.tOO and the city will pay $SfcO down for the power rights, the remslnder will be paid In annual Instalment. The old power plant, which for a , time aerved power and light .to Mur-1 ray, will b dismantled. 1 |