Show Gunnison Water-users Water Gunnison water owners met in mass convention the tho last of the week to consider the proposition of selecting a n. new course for the big irrigation ditch which now covers a large portion of the land I owned by Gunnison farmers The old ditch is found to be inadequate in several respects First the tho stream has insufficient fall and much of the water is lost by seepage and evaporation also the area of lands under the tho canal annl canalis canalis annlis is considered too loo small to justify tho the improvements and of the present water wi At the tho meeting a committee was appointed to engage a surveyor surveyor sur sur- and make necessary ar arrangements arrangements ar- ar to commence work on the new canal this week The new canal will be run considerably higher up on the he bench land lan and will cover several thousand acres of ava available lable farmlands in addition to the acres under the old canal The work of pf construction of the new J canal apal will be be- performed performed be-performed by bythe t the owners I of he be T water i taken kon from fIt m tho s VOIr rffie rrue canal will be fini finished hed before t tho irrigating i. i irrigating season opens opens |