Show DESERT LAKE proposition TURNED DOWN the carbon county news of tl e dinst has this to say concerning the long pending desert lake enterprise residents of desert lake were rudely awakened from a dream of plenty that would approximate for every property owner ahat dreigon this week wl en a party of eastern capital ats turned down an option that they held on about 15 acres of land and the control ng interest in the desert lake reservoir company options on nearly all the farming land in that dreigon and most of the stock in the water company were procured by W F olson and the men with the money aad posted the cash ex to close the deal last tuesday through invest gation of the affairs of the water company d the fact that the desert lake farmers had al lowed their water rights to lapse and tho surplus from creek had fetn filed on by don ot salt lake and others associated with him in an irrigation project which they sav they will complete in the near future the option procured by W olson was an extension of the option taken about three months ago by the utah irrigation power company after this company turned the proposition down olson with J W warf spent two or three weeks in examining the and deeds property and last saturday succeeded in unraveling a decidedly mixed up state of affairs and were ready to turn the property over to the eastern buyers the prospective purchasers decided as an afterthought to spend 1 in a separate in t on of the titles of the desert lake people to the property and before they had done with the work they had spent 2 this money was in taking full surveys of the property showing every ditch and the region surrounding the reservoir it was d sc tat wh ie water had been flowing over the dam the desert lake people had failed to perfect title to more than enough water necessary to supply the few thousand acres now under cultivation and the surplus water accord ng tr recent filings which the deceit lake people had not contested belonged to the robbins company it was also discovered that it would cost a larg sum to perfect the t tie to the desert lake re servon site the eastern men said they would be will na to advance their price 5 in order to procure the water necessary to fill the reservoir if the desert lake peoli could show them where they get it and they also offered to take the property as it stood if the sellers could furnish a guarantee bond that they would have water for the reservoir the thorough investigation of the affairs of the desert lake people was aa great revelation to the farmer as it was to the prospective buyers and the dis appointment over the failure of the deal to materialize was felt keenly on both sides it was pointed out by the attorneys on both sides that a little foresight and the expenditure of about on the part of the desert lake people in protecting their water rights mojid have resulted in several thousand dollars for each property ow ner in the i bigon |