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Show Problems in Obtaining Water Rights Cause Delays in Emery Construction k A success in ohtain-. ohtain-. tu. n,oss;iry water rights :issutv operation of : thieo- ( JVW01' iU'lU'lMlill;' plan! Ihuitir.j'.ton Canyon in Kin- Ceii".ty, nv;;ht force I'tah ,vtr A I-'.-.'1' Cc.. to si'k an site for the luu;e plant, it ';s learn- Lite last wivk. A ITXL .if-;!, .if-;!, cretin;', with llimting- Cleveland Irrigation Co Vkholdors. stated that un-: un-: the amount needed u is .irod by l:"-to in Februaiy company would rehictnnt-: rehictnnt-: ave to choose an alternate for its power plant." : io problem which has pris on between owners of the water ranchers ami farmers farm-ers in !be northern part of Kmery County has given rse to the fooling that VV&l, might begin looking with rent re-nt wed interest at projected power plant sites along the Gioon K:or in Grand Counts. A number of years ago, the I'tility company m:ule npplica-tion npplica-tion for water from the Green for two power general in;: plaids. Both of them are situated situ-ated on the Grand County side of the Green near the" town of Green River. Coal for operation op-eration of the projected plants in Grand County could come from any one of n number oT locations along the Rook Cliffs, urea observers feel, although al-though flit"' company had indicated indi-cated that the llunlingh n Canyon location was' much preferred for its Initial de- elopmout. In Moab Monday, Stale Representative Rep-resentative Kenneth Silliman, who has been closely associated asso-ciated with the planned Emery County development for the past year as a County Commissioner, Com-missioner, slated that it was his personal feeling that even though a number of owners of the water rights were holding hold-ing back from negotiating with the utility firm, he believed be-lieved that the problems would be straight oiled out this week and that the project would gn ahead as planned in Hunting-ten Hunting-ten Canyon. If negotiations do break down, however, Silliman Silli-man said, he was luxful that the power sites near Green River would be given a Rood look. "We would welcome the construction of such a facility facil-ity on the Green River," he said. The problems between Utah Tower & Light Co. and the Huntington-Cleveland Irrigation Ir-rigation Co. came to a head a week ago Saturday, when the stockholders met with an official of the company for nearly three hours nd risked questions pertaining to U12 j roject. Attorney for the Irrigation Company, Therald N. Jensen of Price, urged his clients to cooperate with the cmpany in .making available the necessary neces-sary water to operate the projected pro-jected plant. "I believe that we are not going to be as dry as some of us think we arc going to be," Jensen said. 'Let's get on the band wagon by eorraling winter water and putting in pipe lines to stock and home so that surplus water now swamping land can be used more efficiently. Now is the time. We can put it over and we must put it over. The assessed valuation of the plant will exceed all wealth now in the community. There will be tax money for school? and many other important developments," de-velopments," he concluded. Rep. Silliman said in Moab Monday that with an assessed valuation at only $9 million. Emery County desperately needed thenew development planned for Huntington Canyon, Can-yon, and he believed that in the final analysis, the people now holding water rights there would see this fact and cooperate co-operate fully 1 |