Show i RIL 24 1921 WATER VATER UTI LITIGATION GAT ION ION- INTERFERES WITH DEAL Disposal of Piute Project Is Made Difficult by Legal Complications s i By ALB ALBERT F. F PHILIPS i II For Tor almost a year the question o of tho disposal al of the Piute Plute irrigation project on the part of the state has been en before the tho ata state land nd board d and the matter has gone so far that a aI 1 I ament on the project amounting to has been made by the would bo be purchasers The total cost of the ct to the Piute Plute Reservoir and I-i I Irritation Ration atlon company has been determined determined deter deter- mined by the land board lit ht t Vow Now the Information is given out tit tl it after all the dickering and le legislation legislation legis legis- lation which was enacted by the special special special is-I is cial session of the legislature of 1919 to ethe board of land c commission commis- commis s-on s rs to make malte tho sale that there is thus far not the scratch of a pen appended appended appended ap ap- ap- ap to any contract for the pur- pur cha e cha-e e or or sale of the project The question has been debated the Pus ps pj s week weel and several conferences have ha been held but the deal was as far up in the air yesterday as ever I f j Sometime since there was Instituted 1 i an action in the Millard county district dis- dis I court b by the Richlands Irrigation company against the West est View I gaon a company This action acHon Involves the entire water system of the Su eier ier vier I river which includes the Piute Plute project and the disposition of the latter project is therefore tied up Under the law enacted by the Thirteenth Thirteenth Thirteenth Thir Thir- legislature as soon as an ac action action ac- ac tion is instituted in the courts on n I ac-I a as s system stem in w which ch the water rights have not been blen adjudicated the the- action automatically automatically auto auto- brings all an parties users auto I on ox the tho system as d defendants in the ac action action action ac- ac tion and the state engineer must then take tale up the matter with the water users the thc latter setting up their claims to the water right and after this has been done the matter is sent I to the district court which passes upon tho the question and the water I f rights are adjusted It is on account of or this suit that those who should know say that It is tying up the deal between the state and the would be purchasers of ot the flute Piute Jut project although there is about sixth one of ot the users under the project who have not yet signified their willingness to enter tho the deal by which the irrigation company is to take over o the project The matter is unusually complicated and the tho several conferences held the past week weel re regarding re- re garding arding the tho matter have been unable to solve the problem |