Show garry lagarry IT gains control of milford project aroi 1 Y act usty rusty dangates dam darn gates of litigation were ken and the way cleared for the of arable acres in the milford by a calente lente valley near agreement reached in salt lake day afternoon nane mediate diate effect of the le legal gal pro dings according to the interests alved will be the allocation of wa to agrest natural tract ich ch has been parching beneath the ert sun for twelve years while its kinles were arg argued U ed in the courts combined assets of the companies jobed elved in the dal are placed I 1 at and the ultimate value ol me land involved is placed by the rc chae littera at its earning city amity under proper 0 p er cultivation is is at aboud about a year los angeles angelea buyers ae e purchasers are A E mcgarry los las angeles former salt lake B and discoverer of the i beryl aping district an dh P tayloe LOT angeles an associate y a 4 double transaction consume consumed thursday the ih two with other thern california capitalist become owners of the western iland Larid ard and flop me nt company company the rocky ro y 1 irrigation company and the company the purchase Kase fis e it declared 0 o have been in ex of POO ore important however than the al purchase which was a private sac action tion was the filing of a de before bedora judge tulman tillman D the federal federi tl court burt which ends ration litigation in which the pro project euthas has n tangled and clears the way for development develop rent of the lands la ads a arding to mr mcgarry this jevel devel sat ent will be undertaken at once ter r 41 ill be turned on lands which now ow entitled to it and an effort be made madd to dispose of the riling res acreage among residents of cikity cin ity it is believed by the ch cheers lasers sers that this v will ill be po possible isible began in 1915 he 6 history of the milford project projects back to 1915 when the western d and anda development company cornman corn pan ked d by east eastern ern capital acquire acquired a i acres in the vicinity of milford 11 primary wasef water rights in the vor T river under a subsidiary the ky f ford cord irrigation company the tarn concern proceeded to con et a dam impounding acre wd and started colonization t this point litigation was begun group of farmers in what was i as the beav beaver er bottom claimed lyner iclal rights rl gats ante ai the irrigation act of 1903 se farmers won their suit in the triet t art urt and water was shut from om the project during the en 9 eight years while the case was appealed to the state supreme court it was remanded for rehearing by that body two vars V ars ago to the fifish district court in the meantime the inand remained dry useless without water in 1923 the western land and development properties were acquired by a group of southern californians composed of W 11 dewolfe 1 I 11 yon iron i and W M lenz and have since been held under a trust indenture with the columbia trust company of salt lake as trustee the land was useless however without gatei v ater and a number of efforts to compromise with the beaver bottom claimants failed thi situation existed until last april when mr mcgarry and mr taylor as the duluth land company succeeded in buying up the leaver ear bottom water rights from the owners since then the two I 1 h have y mno concentrate ent i don a acquiring rin 4 9 ahe diepen ii epen d derit ep I 1 t properties this was achieved friday afternoon by the dismissal of the tru trusteeship reship te ship in federal court and the coincident purchase liase of the project acreage and irrigation system rom the present owners tile the important feature of the whole teal deal said saidi AIr Mr mcgarry thursday night is that we have closed up all litigation by purchase and are therdore there ther eore ore in aiosi a position altion to go ahead U ead with immediate development the is there the canals are there the water is there und and the land i ia there all that was needed was beace i bace and we have that see value of the acres involved in the project only 1400 have been cultivation these have been established as first class alfalfa lands landsa w with ith a value ranging to an acre ie it is id said on this basis the entire tract will attain an ultimate v value alue of As an incident of the tr transaction ans action the purchasers also acquire 1 shares oi of the delta canall canal 1 company part Z of the sevier project and nd acres of carey act ct land near delta these constituted part of the holdings 0 of f ta the 1 e western land and develop company credit for the acquire acquirement men t of the beaver bottom lands was given lar largely ge 1 by the purchasers to D E kirk a milford realtor about three years year s were required for this feature of the transaction th the e Wes western terii land and development company was represented by cheney jensena stephens and martineau and the columbia trust company by dey hoppaugh and mark and B barncs arnes signed for the california litigants trib tribune une |