Show uintah river niver and tribu baries rights cuned JUDGE TO H i av LUCK firtl and right to divert a couil dorable amount of water from the vintah river and d its tributaries from tho the lake fork divier aid its according to a si at arato arate scho datu was wait gradt granted ed the united stten and dr hubert work acro ocro fury tury of tuo tho interior ati truthe of the tho indiana Ind latis of aud former our AV indian reservation plaintiffs p tu iu a casa la a oquita st arist a large bumber ot 0 ants many of thom irrigation compa tilts by va two ee 80 abalo cou court t decrees on thurid a Y march 15 1 by judge tillman D johnton johnson judge of tho the united states district court one of tho the la Is conceded coc conc corned emed with case between the plaintiffs and lie the Cod arview irrigation company colorado park irrigation company dry gulch irrigation a company f T N X todd irrigation company ouray valley irrigation company uintah independent ditch company river irrigation company whiterocks irrigation company and forty eight individual defendants regarding prior rights on tho the uintah river tho the court hold that the plain tiffs have the first WIRL and an eldive aright under tinder a that antedates the third day of october 1881 1861 at all fill tame 9 to divert from the uintah river and ita its tributaries by certain ditches and canale canals water for the lr ir richton of certain lands and for certain domestic culinary and und block stock raising uses the total acreage to bo irrigated Is acres and the tb e water to be appropriated ie is cubic feet per second tho water lacto Is to bo be diverted by ditches and canals only dating the irrigation season 0 of each year but may bo ho divorced for domestic cult nary and stock raising purposes throughout the trio year the defendants are perpetu perpetually Aly enjoined from hin daring or interfering with taft diversion a or uses wes of water decreed decreed to the plaintiffs A water commissioner Is to bo be appointed from time to toulme toU time Ime abose duties will bo be outlined lined by separate orders of abe the court ho ito will protect the rights of the plaintiffs f in the way best beat lutted to conserving the rights of the defendants who are made junior appropriators itis it understood that tho decree doe does not determine any righta rights that either elthor aldo may have havle in the waters of ahe he duchesne river or any tributaries tributa ries the case concerning the laka fork fark river waters was between tiffs named and dry gulch irrigation coni company panY farmers irrigation Iril gation company farnsworth rasworth Fa canal reservoir compa company ny good luck company lake fork irrigation company labo lake fork petern ern irrigation company ditch company new cropo irrigation district and thirty two other defendants the right of the united states and the secretary ecret ary of tho inte ae as trustees were conferred as in the above case 6 salt lake tribune |