Show 1 d USERS TO HEAR i WATER RULINGS i I Water users of Utah will be InI Informed Informed In- In I formed of recent rulings of the state stater r supreme court which permit the claiming of ot title to waters after teven seven even years of ot adverse use we use T. T H. H Humpherys Humphery state engineer Cand and secretary of the Utah water 1 storage commission will wUl explain the rulings at meetings held by organ organ- f In which water users arc are Interested It was was decided at a meet meet- In lag of the commission Thursday I Previously any titles to water t were Vere obtained by flUng filing with the state engineers engineer's office but under I e Ithe the supreme court rulings this would it not be necessary it is Ia believed Mr Humpherys told the commission on j 1 Thursday the rulings open the tho way I to hundreds of lawsuits t Legislation Sought A legislative program ram to over- over i como any difficulties that may be beI brought about as lUI a result of the thet I t rulings Is expected to come from j the water users Mr Humpherys I will visit meetings s of canal compa compa- I ales farm bureaus and such organs organ- organ s I I l The commission heard the Carbon H b county commissioners request that a study be made of ot the practicability ity of obtaining waters from the Price river watershed for Irrigation of Clarks Clark's valley 10 30 miles mUes northeast of Wellington In Carbon county Mr Humpherys was asked to contact contact con- con contact tact reclamation officials who are areT T already making a survey of the Price river and urge then to inT int in- in t T elude the new project in their work a Project Discussed The Carbon commissioners headd head- head t td ed d by Dr C. C R. R Fahring chairman told the state commission that acres of tillable land are available in in the valley It Is 13 s proposed to urge families now dependent upon the the seasonal occupation of coal mining minIng min- min I Ing to take up tracts of the land to tot t e furnish them supplemental employment employ- employ ment Construction of a canal 60 miles mUes long tong would be necessary to take waters to the land Mr Humpherys said caid t i William I. I Palmer of the lande land e use we division of the federal resettlement resettle- resettle f ment administration explained prop provisions pro- pro p visions of ot the Jones Bankhead act The act provides for expenditure of ot S for purchase of ginal lands as a means of rehabilitating e tating farmers Utah would receive approximately t V Proposal Outlined It is proposed to cut the total expenditure expenditure ex- ex to the commission como com com- o mission was told In this event Utah would receive little more than has been used now in working out four projects in Garfield Uintah BoxElder Box BoxElder Elder and Utah Juab and and- Tooele counties The water storage commission appointed William Peterson of Logan Loii LoI Lo- Lo ii I gan and Mr Humpherys to study I th the Issue and make recommendations I ions late later k a I |