| Show 6 THE DA dati IAM 11 difficulty I 1 ame amr AMERICAN rican FORK form aug editor deseret neus beus the dam difficulty alluded to in tuesdays paper la is an action on the part of the aggressors that your our cor respondent bas has been expecting to tako taue place ilace tiace from theace the act that a point might be e made nude by the plaintiffs to prove that the i removing amov inz ing of planks was the cause of so much hay hav hav hayim ing been cut along the lake bottoms bot tonis for be it d at kno eno previous isaason season has the american fork folk bottom produced a greater amount of hay than the the present one A few days ago I 1 went near the lake with a gentle gentie manthe object being to purchase pur pui chase the tiie remainder of his hay crop he already having harvested u great amount I 1 called ins ids his attention to the fact that I 1 was surprised to see suc sue such ii beautiful timothy and clover growing g when in the tiie past and that too belore before the tile so much talked off dam was put p ut in at tile the point of the mountain during high wlter muter seasons it was covered with water I 1 learned that this tills same person had filed damages for a supposed sed loss of thirty tons of hay members of the bar may admired be for cuteness of thought and action in their pleadings but it does appear that they are to a degree degrie responsible when they use their ar superior intellect tile the to deceptive art thereby causing I 1 the unwary and more simple minded to perjure themselves es mr editor you 5 speak peak of legal proceedings having been commenced I 1 beuc ed I 1 suppose against the selectmen of salt sait lake laue county counts such action Is to be regretted because of the great good 11 done to the the poor and needy through gli a distribution of water that w woula ouid orld otherwise hav have c been waste the selectmen as a rule are among the first arst settlers or men possessing an abundance and their action in this matter has been tile the advancement of the commonwealth in which we all are or should be mutually interested some may ask what does this scribbler know about it listen my friends to a few facts long before this dam was built I 1 had to put up with the inconvenience ven veni lence ence of having to furnish two to wagons one for each side of the river because our travel with a wagon terminated at what then was called the big slough lehi field at this point I 1 put my freight on a boat was ferried across my ill lil horse having to swim after a which wh le I 1 reloaded and pro ceedee on my journey many many times I 1 have doubled teams te ams to pual half a load in consequence of high waters at this point hundreds ino know y this truth thata till tili a great amount of the flooding of our low lands Is caused by the heavy flow of water from the tile mountains and not the dam dain PEACE GOOD WILL |
