| Show 1 WATER WATER PRO liM WAS DISCUSSED All imp ri ril S Rec Airing rit at Club I f EXPERTS PUT purr FORTH i i f I V r t of ot n Hie tho 1 I b Ab r uk ukI y I lIu Bh 1 lei P 1 1 I About members mem l of ot t the city council of at the thc th elal olal dub and ana r mei last night la of ot the ho Com Corn club to to addresses from I Harris Jud e Power State Rn En i and urn Hon V 1 B S Rich ard on the water bill ana aM the matter ot of Irrigation Mr Por mu explained how contusion confusion haa hi VJ en through the tho appropriation of ot more er than there is 18 l available lint while troubles have havo occurred In other oilier states Slates they lire are ur the more inure here that us u long u CM this of ot affair continued there thero would be no local ln met foot there will ho bo I In places has h already be beHun b Hun must be done unil the tha to 10 do tb la 18 to lo have the h water sources surveyed apportioned anti recorded Of ot the acres of ot lit Utah only hot halt a million pre arc re reV V Under und r Irrigation on of at defective Irrigation lawa In Wi Tho rho speaker held that t the courts were not able abI to tn decide water cater cateri ater i rights questions as UA they should hould lie lo ow ov to the Judges not being posted poale suf sut sufficiently Ikle lb In the tho matter Mr 11 Doremus contended cont that Vant tha th adjudication of ot wn wa t let along one olle of ot a n stream ft nil thu tho determination of ot rights above the tho territory over which ti ono have Jurisdiction would o affect t tho rights of ot owners below belo MR lIn TALKS 1119 Attorney P F ti S In his hie hh ad od drees said ahU I The Tho whole ot of each water waler system should by sur surveyed ur At the courts court dont dutt know knows ond mu tH nobody know tho the capacity of ot thesis these streams One Ono ot or the Out first things I necessary nry is 10 to provide for tor measuring the water sources ascertaining the ap op the surplus water Yater the tho un IW appropriated waters water etc eta I suppose 1 this should hould properly como come under the engineers department After AUer the tho I surveys art aro completed mops pre pro prepared pared then it is 18 l time for tor the courts to adjudicate the he appropriation on the tho system Let be he published ilU dk dl retting every claimant to Ole lie his claim Jetting getting forth the tho amount of ot water claimed by hm hIm Then the tho court might appoint a I referee to consider thesa theu claims Let Iet the referee go fa Into each ellch county co go all through tho the system take testimony on the tho claims of ot every Indi Individual vidual and corporation and make mallo find lind findings lags ings of fact tact showing what each claimant Is i entitled d to Then Theil let lt tho court prepare a n decree deere In accordance with t thin 1 referee findings A cute tute could be bc Issued luu d to each owner of ot water waler rights then thell certificates cales to he ho recorded in tho the chico of the county re ro recorder reo J corder corr e i The thie Important tep elep Is h to sea aea 4 that water vater Is IB properly distributed In accordance with the courts court decrees This might be bo done from the state on en engineers I I know knol to a my mt m own or er orlain t lain that vast quantities of at water rater are arc absolutely wasted every year eor because thero there la III no pr per it r method of at distribution Is s and und corpora corporations 1 tiona keep keel the tho water i In their i canals when they possibly use uso II H for or fear that If they the let lot some sonio ono one Iso have part of ot tho th water seater they might flight lose loue lo e or weaken th lr rights This fills Is wrong No ro man ban hlll any right to tn water that ho he cannot annUL us Proper tion would this e iI Tho The whole e of ot reform In Irrigation Is h not to deprive any all man of hl hili veNted nested rights but bul to protect him In the fullest en of ot those rights rIght POWERS VIEWS Judge Towers in his speech said laid t understand that Hint certain members of ot the city council appeared before tho the corn com committee today and objected to this incas meas measure a aUN ure UN on mi the ground round that tho the water vater sup BUp ply of ot tho the city was ivan a II mutter matter tho the coun COUll council cil ns competent to handle without e roy to regard rega i It Itus us IlS a n that tho the Commercial club had hod out of ot their hands the matter matte of ot I preparing a II bill bearing on the There was WOR no such intention on the part of the tho club When the committee of ot to tOcas visa cas appointed ap members member of or the iho council who were members of ot tho the club I placed on the tho commit Cl I tees tee It to ID me that this is I suf euf t ul I answer to the chart that the tho council was Ignored In thin matter Tho Thu of ot placing the water supply 8 wider under a commission Is to take It Il entirely ou out of ot municipal politics politico It yas fa for this r reason also nillO that provision Is made mado holding the tha election ot of the tho commissioners In April rather than at Qt atthe the tho regular election time It was wall con can considered beet beat to wake make the tho Office Ol eo of tho the commissioner elective rather than ap liP appointive We WI have hud had exam example Pie I Ie during the past year of ot the tho mayor maor appointing and tho lie council refusing to t ton con confirm on 11 rill It Is 18 provided however that pending p the tile first election next Am April 11 the Mayor shall aPPOint tho the commis commissioners The purpose of ot this Is to give opportunity for tin lie matter to be taken Into the courts and flud Its constitutionality leased upon by the court of ot last ap nIl appal i iI pal jal I al This settled fettled tho validity of ot tiny any I bond ond b Issue l ue that might follow tollow could coul not be bo questioned FISHER I HARRIS lion Hon Fisher Isher Harris followed review m Ing the which Md lsd 1 tile the theo o club IB to take tl up the tho matter lie He stated that Hint till the his he l last nt Hummers drouth had shown hown the th tl catty of Improving the water llIter supply md the th Commercial Uh oa nil a body Jolly hud hid tAken the situation In hand when no ni one anI 1 his leml 1 anxious or o wilting Wi hil to tl do It I The Thu city ly council mm Culled called down for or at nt attempting tempting to Li Interfere with wih th thO work ork of at th club and awl while sybile wIle Mr Harris did id not nol nolan an the tho cly council an Intellectual dime show nun astir refer reter references ho lie made to that body bly might have hae be n that way or The following telegram was i lost last night at a the dub club from President J P E H F I 1 Holmes lolme Club of ot Salt Lake I consider con it I of o tho Oio highest Importance that water commission bill hi paw nus the I Legislature No time should be lost lostIn lostIn lostin In making mailing Improvements The he winter supply rl is s entirely inadequate and gren rel me fire louea 1010 ate possible under existing I U Fi I R I mS iod 10 Angeles Cal Fob 17 |
