Show WATER HIGHTS legislation concerning water rights la is the title of circular no 38 recently issued by the utah ex pertinent pent S tation station the author of the circular C W israelsen who Is in charge ot of irrigation and drainage at the station has brought together many facts concerning water rights which are of vital importance to irrigation basic doctrines nieth methods of acquiring now new water rights and of accurately denning rights to the use of water chidi have become vested through actual use are among the important topics which tho the author has explained in an exceptionally clear rl manner anner professor lara israelsen elsen has given special attention to the colorado wyoming and oregon systems of defining old water rights and has summarized mar izod important court 1 aiona relating to these systems the writer makes the alarming assertion that in following the colorado system of defining rights utah has since 1903 nearly 16 years spent over 7 in making surveys of river systems but has not yet completed the cintr mi nation of any rights oregon on the other handi hand ne according cording to the writer has defined rights to which covers nearly acres of I 1 land the tha basis of the water right the tend tendency crier toward waito of aster the need for tho the encouragement of nf economy econ orny ond and other important aroh lems which confront te fined the author states that t the flerl cultural development of tip one sante la is being hindered to n mist lier men are arc reluctant t oner ct reservoirs rind and cilin cal B itans NnA fl of t tho the nr fit im mr r flinty concerning the titles of of tho the twelve definite def inife topics presented in a summary at the erd ot of his publication the following are arc particularly significant 6 rights to water which became vested through use before laws governing tho the acquirement of brights frights were enacted are now defined 1 by the courts 2 by administrative boards and 3 by administrative boards and courto the first method la Is called the colorado system the second tho the wyoming system and the third the oregon system because the respective sy systems sterns were designated and first used in these states 7 eight states including larb follow tho the C colorado system of debili ing water r rights gats three ahree follows til tb wyoming system enree the oregon system and three have not yet rr pr bided vided special procedure tor for defining water rights 8 advocates of tho the Color system arguo argue that it Is the only sv av torn tom that Is legally sound hut but V tr system has been aphel liell iby by the supreme courts of and nebra nebraska and the oregon sv avi tern item has haft been upheld by the su sli areme courts of wyoming aind TT i and the oregon system h hn 1 been repeatedly upheld by thi oreine areme court of the prid nd tl it w recently sustained dustal ned bv th the a united states court 9 the colorado n no rn fo lowed hv by utah h tini lieen been inoperative during a period ot of afif fl teen years although the state en gincer has completed five of the stater weeks at the i miss kendall frankio Fran klo scent thred weeks at the hotel man mansfield afield during the quarantine of the murdock murdoch home chome where she returned tuesday of last week her mother mrs rob inson was in salt lake some time visiting her other daughter and on business having returned here saturday t since which time miss ie has be been an confined to be her room wit with neuralgia j i rw |