| Show WATER VATER PROBLEM BY AN OLD SETTLER t News The lh ot of water from rota year to 10 year t brings bring un Ut u face fare to 10 facu tace with new IV economic relating to the this bet better bettee tee ter and fairer of water M ii well as II n hitter helter Application of 01 the th Ih anie anieto to out OUI Much I is III being done 10 W Wor o store more or the tito water I r supply running to waste from year to 10 YH yar as nl also aiso by WilY of or piping lumina fRaming or other proper ways W 11 of ot the lilt water lIter Is Isnow now 1101 wanted In tile the through seepage and sinking hut but there Is III a u problem In ill I be bP solved at lit home horne hM It is as III wasteful mid II lid extravagant M liS It Is productive product of at contention and Ill II will tili between man man fbI lear lein U ill relating rebuilt to Is It I commonly known n as aM culinary or drinking streams tile the th people leole settled those valleys ther they needed led water waler for tor hou house u u use e as LIB well ell as an for Irrigation Hence one of It C the tite lint of or these fresh resla living hiving streams of lit water r coming from the tho mountains tar for culinary The he ettlel conveyed the thu water waiters In ditches tom their lows 1108 to the tho settlements und scattering farms over Cm rp country And na at new settlers settler arrived tiny they till were ore given Riven homs fal ther and farther away awny from ruin tho the creek canals then exiting existing anti anil they thuy were ere to lead streams lo to their houses for lor drInking water waler This living M I I live tills this was doing goOd treating others a as we Ve e would tilY Ih should l treat us ua This Thin was taR only right filth and proper at that time anti and under those thOM circumstance Pitting Piping was out of ot tile the pipes ware Vure not IlOt to be lied had Flowing l telis were not known ant tanti well reil driving machinery I right proper procedure dure at lit t that 11 could not he lie procured Water tor stor storage torD age oge D In proper cisterns we Ill I could not have for tor various the chief duet of which was want rant of means Tile The struggle was for tur bread and shel thel shelter ter tur for man mall anti and beast these circumstances what was las more mOrt natural than th n n it email stream tot for house use une Where here It was It WilY Watt allowed and anti the Jots 10 JI to tile the t Ie first rel Fettle of ot tills this water tater WIH WH not counted as IB It was sae agreed that nil all should have hae haven haea a n shew and n It fair opportunity to live Ie in our free IreI and fair air mountain hOlM For many mallY years this custom obtained lanti many a 1 stream has haB been litell divided and subdivided t Into these th e culinary streams until we ve are ar confronted 1 with wIt wIta n I question wasteful and mental In the tile extreme and pregnant with all 1111 manner of oC causes for tor com Coal complaints plaints and counter complaints quarrels and anI strife until It has hall reached the tM courts and will continue to there until the vexed question I Is thoroughly Investigated anti and properly adjudicated The he writer being well vell acquainted with this tilis question through h yearn year of or ex M experience e In Irrigating In Salt Halt Lake Inke val vol valley ley Icy anti having traveled extensively In other otiler lands anti observed other peoples P ways of providing the necessary water supply for tor house hous use ml thought it proper to a n few tew lines to the tile New on Ott this important subject knowing that thata n a large portion of ot Its It readers are con confronted confronted fronted with just curio He IlL believes b II that a ate fe ten words word Oil on tills subject might aid others NIl wh will hit to battle lattie along the same name III me thin the enemy 1 I is routed I IrOll rOll call It an nil enemy because what chiat was wal once ollre u uL necessity and the only proper coume ond on 1 permit ted us lit a 0 privilege has hiatt gone Ion over to a few tew who now claim calm It as just JUi rights and apply apil those small streams on their farm farms and 1 gardens Thus that was lIR once called u a drinking stream l is now nol II u garden m and a the greater benefit Jene t to these thes few Is more In Its Ils application on and fruits faults than for tor drinking purPoses purpose And 1111 thorn then l Is tile the th sent Peat of tile the evil ovll t persons lowe have to limn rights separate and apart front rout else eUe something which has 1105 never been Ie n conceded n it right for tor such Buch uSes U lI and for which no allow ince in III made anti and iut in taxes paid Tile The privilege was waR extended l In a day dayot of ot need In the th day of poverty and am amno nov nO that and ability to make alike other equal rights Rn privileges could bo ito are aN upon tin tie pei tout thus thu benefited cling to this tili custom almost to a R man send nd would t lIa l make the tue believe that they have lave certain not lOOt to 10 I hut Interfered with and anti Mich ucb ns os are ais l necessary n to their livelihood I will refer to the th lit hi tIlls this neighborhood viz hz Cottonwood Suit Stall lAke county anti our wastefulness by b showing Ile conditions huts x Oil on the on mil known HH cu tile the Ih upper cans t anal The main supply for or the eastern u In win sit In this nfl The ThEl II Is six nix miles mill long lon runnIng th rn trim the tile II Dig Ig to Mill fr I ek k As A i the Ih settlers tills this canal cOnni 11 f t few w to III I rely upon and a 1111 little or no un boner for artesIan wells well 11 or Ir II the th system lI of having lIOU H coust u r hut hes obtained to 10 toa 4 a Urge large lar extent und anti has hal us III M us rouse 01 a to the Ih er distribution of ur HIM nod a source of continuous trouble and send dispute Cot ton wood creek like hiie InO most nott t of or our moun moult tini lit hi a I flUctuating I rUIng to a torrent t IM In tho tint sprIng and small and wid lull often very ver scarce care careby II by y August and well such ch tr Knelt ono one of ot If the creeks er r tug Dig Cottonwood cre k klinn linn hiss an as n ot natural u a very er smith small amount ot or water In Ill tho the latter Dart of ot tilt t e lint Hut we have 50 u I tier fur lulled to 10 sleep l ef with tilli the till thought thud we IW ort first needed lI water to drink and then th n whatever MIB 1111 left heft to put Iut It Il upon nur ur thirsty grounds round To ho Accomplish that we 0 of d worth of ot water every Iry year lelar anti and then because hll we n have not enough water for irrigation purposes o Now Non to the proofs AH As I said salti before the upper tippet Is about sIx lx Ix mIles long the ther many settlers nattier who IK lire 1111 a aon on Ill III tile the main 0 und drink rInk from rom It there thero are about aboul 35 or more culinary MellIn out lit nt various points one or Ir more mor with As uK 8 u 1 13 mattir of ot course limn theet are arc not Ilot to just ci tits the L th e kite need 11 to 10 rInk drink for tOI ui send Aud their th lr Mock istock but bul are Ire continuous Mown flows day and night supposedly to waste catte when not flat lu lit drinking but In III tact fact applied on sonic gome mans manH or garden large tracts of ut land that a ate 10 supplied with wilIer In the tho al Ill allowed lowed hewed by the till thus furn turn tellIng the o people with Ith a 1 double wa WB water ter right t of ot which h the culinary l is 18 tetter than titan any division of at water by hy bythe i ithe the tin en n a 1 company botanic because I It Is lit In tn Independent I IrI dependent rI and continuous und tind used uell nt lit will by the tile person thus tittle accommodated One itie would My say thoo streams to ito the tile culinary n needs ls of ot tho the Is U next to In the v Inter itter u It small stream freezes the tue themi mi minor It evaporates etc ell Thus tIle the users feels Justified In III demand demandIng Ing lag a 1 stream to 10 rench places at it nil seasons If It it does clues 18 not they the go KO to 10 the source let In III a n little lithe littlemore more always enough to do ito n 0 little Ir irrigating r on th side and In that thaI WilY way the tue proper to use the water and to It whom It hall 1155 been allowed by 1 thu th is II robbed under Jer a u pre pretended tended right to drinking water but In III fact with which to Irrigate with withe We e will follow tollo 26 25 or moro more cull cuU nary a little further We will Und a Il value alue for tor them for tor just five lve months during the he lie Irrigating season from the I he first r t day of May Iny tn ho the last In 1 of ut September He float In Ip I about days clays da One fifty tifty days lane has three nil six Mix hundred hours hourn Now Nul allowing the value of or these streams to tu tolie tube tobe be lie only one ona dollar per hour that would thrown away each Mch season nenon I Hut HUI the tile truth Is the tite 2 l or Ut more saved to the tho and and distributed as aN one would be worth more foam Iun to thin com coni community alone a lOll each Ih year car the t e improvements Improvement would arll follow rollo n II better l supply of at water It would at least I double the amount of our water now nol used In III the dry weapon season I when It R Is I needed It would often nave cave 10 vr a L potato to crop or corn crop It would Increase the th output of her ber berries rIco ries nil kinds kInd of ut small fruits and thus thull bring a greater degree of 01 prosper prosperity ity It to all 1111 concerned Neither would these tickers tIckera for tor culinary streams loose leote NO so much aa as they th would also get their sluice share of 01 tile the additional a allowance of 01 water gained by the discontinuance of 01 this antiquated system of house blouse streams Again there thore Is JH the Canto nato spring of ot It hall one stream to be distributed among Its owners owner When this hI t was led out on the present Ire ent owners lands In the early curly seventies of till thu last century the custom of ot oth other er Ir creeks sai as followed and a 1 drinking stream allowed us far tar HA its needed Hut But Huta Butas a as al usual those on the lower end eni ap up appropriated the tall toil end of ot this stream for garden purposes and this has led let to legal complications The Thu Hult Is 18 di dl directly tot for a drinking stream on the tile old ol ollIAn l plan lIAn but bu Indirectly for a garden which the plaintiff has succeed bd Id In obtaining and on by system systematic alit 80 Ho fur far Judge Hall hail who heard tho thu case has las beet been unable to render any other than advising a compromise anti Indicating that the tite plaintiff wits was entitled to Just what wa ta water ter was needed for house and stock use but none acute to As thU leaves hit case open to further dispute tile the same canoe case cafe will come up agaIn for n a new flew hearing In to n a slightly different form the whole subject will b be opened and the rights of nil all be Judicial Judicially ly determined If possible TUB The solution of this present trouble rouble Is not bat n a culinary Is not a legal right because It Is a waste of water The user Is 15 not perpetually drinking nt at tills this water When a flow Is not entirely absorbed for or drinking use the remainder Is supposed to BO go to waste It Is lost The wants It to b be there here for pr hU hIs convenience ence nt at stay any tIme he lIe pleases to drink and for the rest of this the time graciously for It to run on his straw strawberries berries or other garden truck Now tills till U is all wrong An As culinary are only permissive anti nl at because of certain circumstances and conditions In oUr pioneer are not such Suell aa as any Intelligent court c tin n sustain upon a proper showing mowing Law and Justice ore re calculated to mote mete out equal rights for beneficial purposes other her claimants are equals in uso uno and appropriation Law end progress de demand cl mind mand the ruling and course whIch are arc for the greatest good to the he greatest number when It effects tilt the welfare of ofa a community nt itt large Wherefore the writer contend that these streams known an as drinking streams can never neur be b held to be legal or acquired acquIre rights they ire re wasteful und and abo lush to the state at large And Aluli they we tue not needed need either We can row pipe water where that system t IN more convenient and profitable Hut But for rural district where the Inhabitants sic are quito scattered piping In is not the i c r simplest there cisterns nor profitable We Wi have hat already enough in us tiet In iii FaIL East Mill reek Mill Creek ami atul Hag Big to know that they ire are successful 25 to toO 00 O Tin build a good gooi and cistern for fo sill all ordinary The water thus eon oan b be Uk taken from the th turn of the water user unit und ie will thin have hare a better article al tray Mray ready for culinary PurPoses purpose This wM wLter r U Is fresh anti and tool cool anti and handy This ThU system will In the near future be b adopted an as the only solution f fu r till question And no doubt sellin thit courts are properly Informed will hoW with WORSe tOni ouch a jU luau which PromiSes a ft solution upon stich linen HA as will be for the th but SIltS and neatest rood of the whole the tue tendency of which will l 1 tu to Improve the facilities for a llvell l of tj i of the of U lob The writer having baring traveled somewhat In the orient r well the many manyU In U In by ly the and other I 1 je who went to live The country o afforded ora t no springs and no 10 rutS In ira the summer bence the people have to provide imelde water by Storage For a and id alike have built cite i terns and lh the uin fall all In the winter Is 1 tor d for u use e While tray trav traveling eling in that country with Lund anti r J other EldrI we drank as tine fine tineI ti I r I thi TV is u tInY nv r j in IK tIe ill li in cisterns anti I It 15 1 I ule k nut O be wv wary here In lii this country where i icIer ter In is In turns few l s the ran OlIn be hoe tilled as sea often MI a needed In 1 I will say y that evidently the thu IndIviduals by this oW old will oppose th the appearance mf f anything th that t nieam a chance from roun the thu J benefits they derive fr n the use pf it the sU Del th their r gar leos lers They peek 1 gal advise sod fire told of course Bourse you ou can yo your r title tithe Hut But such u lii often bAsed I upon arose a urIc one story Now ow let ui us j think title tills matter over In n a sober nober and and rivet the how manfully und be ile benefactors in u tt Soul reul e by doing lo to Hi tim country at t lur large e liy by of our hOC fancied rights The writer r U 5 one of those who wh will havo lo to n It and amid IH lit perfectly wIlling wIllingto to forego the pleasure of drinking out of the canal tile the dry enon for forthe forthe the greater that will eIl CO mo to the whom whole community by the water Muff applied upon our eur In lit the tho of K F V F |
