| Show WINS HIS AS judge johnson renders important POL water decision dec sion DOREMUS TURNED DOWN big B irrigation enterprise for the green river section to be started at once in the caso case of 0 L D dowey alz alast t state engineer doremus Do romus which WOK tried before julge jacob at salt liiko lake city last saturday thu tile ruling of tho the state engineer in rot gard to the appropriation of water 4 from tho tile green by haa has been reversed by bv iho the court and it Is held that the state earince r has no right to an a ll li catlon cation for tho the waters of it stream through laud belonging to tho the united states deney made application to ther state engineer in may alay 1001 1 to ftp ap 1700 a bond feet oi of water from froin tho green Oreen alier at a point between areen river town and gunnison buttes it was wits tho the to uso use the water for purpose purposes and tho the construction of a it power plant to cost 7 GOOLO to wai was contemplated tho tile application was denied b lf stata er domenus Do Dore renus who acting upon un an opinion from froin attorney general beceden Bi hem held that the water could be bemused used to much greater advantage advant ago for irrigation purposes at a n point above alio proposed bite of the tile power plant an appeal from this ru ruling lilg was taken by duwey with tho result that tile decision hue has aven reversed judge johnson Joli in hia his decision lec lalon hold holds that the flip state has no ested rights to the waters of is 11 stream flowing through 0 government lands und and it cannot prohibit the appropriation for any pur pc peso of the waters oft of cuili |
