| Show INVESTIGATE WATER SHORTAGE E County Commissioners Through Clerk Make Appeal to State Slate Engineer to Investigate Existing Years I Drought Has fine Caused a Loss oi of I Acting under Instructions received from the county loners County Clerk J m s today toda sent tho following communication n to State Engineer Doremus Dear am directed by hy tho board of ot of vf Salt o county to to you the tho following lid suggestions concerning n 1 situation that affects In III Interests 61 t Halt Lako county On August 14 H P 1 Page of 01 Henry Heury It 11 Heck J ck mend of goUth Nol NeU A II Nelson of ot roil rol dents of or the th southern amI went rn portions of county count who UM I the tho waters of or lake for tor purpose el made a II tho board of oC county In substance fin 1111 follows Utah lake loke Is III a n reservoir from which several everal In Halt Lake county ob obtain tain supply of ot Irrigating water without which supply about forty thousand acres lIero of ot land In Salt flail I Lako Inko county count would haw to b aban abandoned I dOlled an desert dellert This land has been b n in 11 inu u II state of for tor a n number of yearn has hOIl afforded II homes support for thousands of ot people in inconsequence consequence however of a n falling on ort ortIn In the writer supply this ami of oC coun country try Is III being reduced to ale age this year y lIr Is computed to be he mom than halt half a 11 million dollar and the committee o stated that tho crops of ot 1301 1901 would not more than pay the taxes ami water assessments while an un unusually usually dry season has IlIs contributed to the losses given anil has hn emphasized the UIO necessity of or storing water the com took the vl w that the chief of ot trouble Is not In the prow dry reason cason but bu t In the tho fact lake Inke as nJ a n Is being deprived of ot Its water supply They Thoy say the streams which are the tho sources of ot pro providing viding v 1111 nit the tho lake Inke reservoir are being di dl diverted ns the waters therein never reach rench the lake saM said waters arc there thero therefore toro fore misappropriated For two or three years past the waters of the lake have been receding owing to this cause In reference to an nn Impression the tho diversion of ot streams heretofore lowing Into the lake Inko has hlll no on vol volume ume the committee pointed out that this Is not the tact fact since the great hulk bulk of the tho seepage from Irrigated finds Its way to n a lower than the lake and the prior appropriates in hI the tho canal caMI companies are arc thus unjustly de deprived of As tho Mate engineer hits has general supervision of waters of at the state the tho board of ot commissioners commissioner of ot Snit Salt Lake county foels Justified Ju In calling your attention to this complaint In requesting you ou give eho to 10 It II such as us under lit ht dull of ot your office Tho referred to al alio o naked R ked the board of county com commissioners missioners 18 10 no to 10 Clo relief to the tJ i people who arc 1111 Buffering by I remitting for tor 1901 or by hY io ro the e l value of ot by b making u II survey to If It the tho headwater of the Weber Weller and Du cheno river l turned Into the tho Provo river thereby be he Impound Impounded ed ell m n Lake Inh M suggested by u II U IT 8 R government official who made mir veys eya In that part of ot the country countr He these lIuK means of re rc relie lie 1101 the board ban hM no Jurisdiction In Inthe the th and any relief given tIn be on other linen line As to the tho suggested 1 survey to whether or not the waters of ot the Duchenne might be 1111 di diverted to lake tho board of ot com commissioners missioners that probably you arc aro In a position to give Information as al asto to what might be he blo In that connection without Interfering with vested rights As AI to the claim of ot the tho to tho waters flowing Into lako In order to supply it as 11 n reservoir the board of ot commissioners made a n of ot the records and 1 that till on August 5 a filing was duly made mallo on nil all those streams which the lake lako and n 1 claim was set forth to water amounting to one thousand cubic feel tet referred to la Is per second Tho filing properly recorded ll In Hook ICk H n of Water Claims Claim In II the oleo of ot the tho of ot Salt Lako Inke county c H I to cover tho entire source of at tho lake n sup ply A copy will 11 bo be furnished If It The com COl for tor the thc stated that the tho Salt Sal Lake county appropriates had tho water tiled tell upon but that during UfO the tho past two to or three years yearl the supply In II Utah luke lake had holl been greatly diminished through canals cuni being taken out at various points In and Ind should hould Utah counties Water that have been Iwon used In Bait county won therefore diverted elsewhere The committee Wil also expressed the tho view If It present condition were allowed to the value alue of ot Utah URh lake ag as a n reservoir would be destroyed within a n afew few tew years The board of ot commissioners res respectfully requests that you OU give tho subject of ot the petition care careful ful tul consideration as to whether any part of ot It I comes comel within the scope of ot your and If It practicable that thai you will 1 advise of In II alleviating the evils evis com complained CO |
