Show Ip RIVER AND SALT S. SALTE I E CITY J 0 By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Salt Lake Cit City has lias an application with the tho state engineer r to appropriate appropriate ate atc 50 V second of water atc from Hock crock l' l el and the Duehesne g river cr and also for acre feet foot o of water from tho same sources sources the water vater 1 to be lc stored in n an impounding d dam clam m for the city and vicinity It would be well to discuss ss this matter by bf a public meeting An editorial is altogether too short for that purpose t unless it be s series of ot articles However it is is well to observe observe ob ob- serve that water for use I is governed J b by prior por ap appropriations ani not by I I I taking water from o one e river basin asin to ar another There is no Utah st-a st statute 1 pi appropriations from one basin to another Colorado had such a statute 40 years ears ago and d the tho legality of Or taking water front from one one river basin to another was tested out and and the court field fJeld in what Is known as the thc Left Loft Hand rand Ditch h Com Company Con pan pany case that a a man man had a right to take water water- fi from om one baste basin to 10 another rut rut- an an- other in spite o of tho the f facts that t the thee o statute e said he lie should not do it Tho The ThoI law aw of or prior aPI appropriation 1 tion is ls the fhe law I that governs In Utah we i ve o have hao no noI I such statute and aid there can be he DO no i reasonable doubt that so 80 far an as an- an I I other othor r liver ver l basin as Jl is concerned Salt S lt I Lake cH C City liar has n a right to appropriate this water If tile the b basin sin lies has tho the s rv cJ cn- cn g Ll they c can protect t tt t clients themselves h anyway n the for U. 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I District l liras lias s a filing or of 1 13 years Sl standing I j I and more for Cor or 0 second feet of walI nalI wal- wal I f pI pr n and th the the J Knight t. t interests have Bate a D piling filing for at least foo second feet or orm of an m older ohIo L filing filin all from l Hock flock crock creek and there are arc o other filings east cast as of or I Duchesne that will will cons consume c more morn 1 than the thc river when it Is low The only onh leas reason n that wo wo sl should worry w about Is our ability t to actually a 1 use lire SO this water for Cor irrigation We be bs' believe lieve that the appropriators appropriators' will vill get got hus busy and actually l use this water and anti Salt Sall Lake City will have Ul O to take flood waters and even moon that will I he sufficient f for r Salt Lake bake All oC of this means moans that that people who have ilave uncultivated land that are lare entitled en entitled entitled en- en titled to filings flings on the tIle Duehesne e river and Hock Rock cree creek will wm have o ha to get busy or 01 lose lORe their water rights Many people tI do not r realize the c importance of or an rut early waster waiter right light but bit the time J will ill soon oon conic como that a water right J will he be a small fortune or 01 a large m lor depending b-depending upon onion tile the 11 own own- ire i's is 1 holdings Ijan Lund 4 Is 5 bound to own own-I Increase In in- crease 1 In hl 1 value anti and the water vat r Is the whole thing thins But Salt tace is is up against the Boulder dam dani question 1 and it sleeps In sweet contentment ent and thinks that Is right nut as Call Cali California forma fornia Mexico and and- Arizona already has the river Immensely ap Salt Lake will run up against 1 the lower owel river rhel appropriations appropriations unless tho the Boulder Doulder dam dani is built bant and will bo be subject to federal Injunctions and compelled cd to turn the wat water r down But if if I the dam is built Salt Lake will also he bo up lip a against another difficulty that might be ot of far reaching reach reach- lug ing importance to all the users Jn Ill the thc upper l' l basin states as asell well ell a as ae the tho lower states and she an and 1 her hel Ivis- Ivis ers haven't even thought ht of It ft 1 we ne c cant can't lit discuss tha that at t iris His tame for it takes too much sp o o oa 4 Mrs A. A C. C Bartsch of or Los Angeles I Is IB fie visiting her sister Mrs Irs Hannah E. E E. E Rockhill Miss Aliss JJ s. s Gladys of oC Grand Gl Junction Ju 1 is visiting at t the tho home of or her sister Mrs J. J E. E L L. Car Carey Mr Wm went to 10 lIo holier CI CIfor for the ho Mrs Rockhill Mrs Bartsch Bartch Mrs Irs Francis Brooks Mao Mae ca Casper pc and 1 Howard Arrasmith spout spent sp nt the ai at I. I Duchesne 1 l Mrs Wm m Clifton CHUon has s re rented J e part parl of her hor bungalow w to one of the road load engineers and his fancily family 6 George Georgo Casper Casper- has been beon visiting his daughters and son this hIS week Barney of of o Provo was j o out t to Fruit land with a load of oC fruit j Mr 11 of or Vernal was taking I orders for rd HS for or J Jl J goods good f for l' l an all Ogden Obidell Og Obi den dell comp company at recently Mrs Anna Anua received the sad saO news of or the sudden suddon d death of or her brother brothel Arthur Arlhur Gogin at l c Chicago or heart trouble rouble At one time Mr 11 Gogin Gogh owned quite lule a hit bit of or land Jaud 11 at V and Erina and J Erma and aud hilly Billj pC lq spent snout front from Friday until Sunday with rills Mrs Mis Hannah h l' l M. M I Hool hlll i crank Russell and nd Bill Dill l f returned t Thursday front from crom croma a visit isit jit at McCoy Colorado at att the tho Charley Charlcy It Russell home There was a dance at the hall tall Saturday night j The Fite he much music talked of or circus failed t to show shoN 1 up up p Friday Miss MoItt of stopped over on her way way home home from I Provo ro for lor a a visit with Mrs Rockhill c Clarence ar nce and d Clint Clini Casper SIJer xi-f xi o 1 ona oua came over o Saturday to Lo bring Mae Casper home n |