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Show Pumps May Not Operate the Coming Season (iitestlgutlug Farmers Find Planks in Jordan Jam with Utah Lnkc Nearly Eighteen Inches .Above Compromise Foint nnd Water Still Rising. Israel Lvans Is sucing tho Salt Lake Canal companies for damages resulting result-ing from high water. Somo of tho Provo and lako shore farmers arc threatening suit because of tho high Anter overflowing .their lurms. The high water lovel of 1900 has not yet been reached, but as tremendous nil corns are pouring into tho ink? wilh the hlf.li water Benson yet to como, It Is probnl'Io a new high wntcr rcord rc)iy )c established. Last week a committee of Provo citizens, consisting of Edward Fnrrcr, Joel A. Johnson, George E. Cook, George T. Peay, Sr., and Georgo T. Pcsy, Jr., visited tho dnms In Jordan River and found two feet flvo Inches of water flowing over the upper dam nnd twenty-two Inches or plank in this dnm. They said that tho plank had been In tho dam all winter and spring, while three feet of plank hnd bn kept lu tho lower dam during the-swrie the-swrie time, nnd nil contrary to agreements agree-ments heretofore entered into. These planks should bo out from October 15 tOlMnrch 15 In low water seasons mid kept out entlroly during high water. It Is probable that the big pumps may not bo operated nt all during tho present Irrigation season. The river Is now flowing by gravity more than tho farmers can use, and tho flow will Increase for some tlmo yet to come. Tho water is now touching tho wagon bridge at the head of the rlvor, and tfhen there ls n strong south wind tho water almost crosses tho road. In tho latter part or tho season, ns the water begins to recede, tho farmers use less water, so that It now looks ns if thoro would bo no need of operating op-erating tho big pumps nt all this summer. sum-mer. From this It would nppear thnt tho sixty second feet being pumped by tho Utah Lako Irrimitinn fnm,i,, nnd tho flrty second feet by tho Mo-slda Mo-slda Fruit Lnuds Company, besides tho numerous smnll privnto plants recently re-cently Installed, nro making but little dirferenco to tho lnko's supply, or elso that if theBo newly Installed plants had not been put in operation tho county would now bo flooded. At tho time these Provo gentlemen made their visit they ulso measured tho lovol of tho Inko and found thnt It was seventeen and threo-qunrtcr Inches nbovo compromise point. -ii |