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Show BaUKHUNGS I CAUSEUNEASINESS toMthMon ot agriculturist of :?. nty lest the filings on wa. BTtaUtah ,aK0 rccently n,ft'e by J- terdock deprive mat county of mLo tr frm ,ourc to BTI tho farmers deem themselves EL, It under investigation by the KkWfcter Storage association. At ELtlBE f tno a880CWt'on ,tt8t w'eo't utter from A. F. Doremus, chair-Lrftbe chair-Lrftbe water supply committee of Pfoeele Commercial Club, was read Elnferred to Sectary J. Lco Meo-KJ'th Meo-KJ'th instructions to obtain data Lfef on Its subject matter. Egjttary Mcehan now reports the K of ha lnvtutjgatlon. and par-EJlr par-EJlr with reference to conferences Hm subject had with Georgo P. Hiute,' state engineer. His re. HJjlllMued. in the form of a letter Hjtr- Doremus as follows:' BT an Mvised by Mr. McQonagle KjM rPned the waters of Utah Kl to filing because In hfs opinion EfMtred to be the best thing for KpbUc Interests; 'that the Utah L irrigation 'company desired to Ewaeat Ha supply to lands already Erthelr ditches by the installation fitter pumping unit, but first de. E4 aecuro Uio water. Mr. Mc, Eto d that he did not know Etr there was now sufficient ad-Kal ad-Kal water not filed upon in the Ew that' ir they wished to take Ekaace he would accept the appll- Bat state engineer also advised me Enteral one month ago he talked HWle matter over with a delega. Etrea your county, and that he Bamd In your opinion formed at tdae that it would be advisable Enar Interests to mako an appll. Es. He said he told you It would fjl.OOO, but that a later check Bid the cost would be only f 392, B'tttt hla assistant, Mr. Ulrlch ad you to that effect. 81nc B,h said, your people have never BK iar application, though he was BmI&k it would, nftor the con-mfi con-mfi of opinion at the meeting with ;'X Action Tet Taken ,1 McOonaglo colls my attention jrto the fact that the applica-HfJfrt applica-HfJfrt Murdock and his asso-l tKt'not yet been gmnted, and. H will not state whether or not H fo, he does state that h'e will Hal the water is allotted to the w'vhtre It may be most boneft. . H' for the good of the great. ) mtbtr, as he Is charged to do B. He further cites the fact that tort ot the engineers of this as-Bh as-Bh brought out the fact that Hb i Urge surplus of water In Vtttr which may be diverted to tWTD, thus supplementing tho k la Utah" lake. I B troll appear from my inter-i mlth the state engineer that be ytl lth your delegation In tho "V advisability of making a fll- unlt-al that he wns surprised thnt ihooBFI'!lfUon as mndo. -W' tOonaglc said hit told your " W M that tlmo that ho was not ktthtr the water was there to Hi but that If you decided to risk 'biirt, It might bo well to make !. This ho scld, was before unlock had made his second ftl. IwUtlon Without Tower m 1ll reallio, of course, thnt In the lost analysis tho Utah Water Stor ago association Is unable to protoYt yourlnterestsMlmtnoouomayrso but yourselves. We nro powerless To prevent the state engineer from' exorcising exor-cising the prerogatives given hlra by law, whether w0 agreo with Mm or not. Tho association was formed to gather Information for the use of Its members. It has no arbltnry or fixed power to say what shall be done, or what may not bo dono. It may only offer Information for the benefit of Us memtfers. i "In tho opinion of the state cn-glnocr, cn-glnocr, who Bays ho consulted others before acting In the matter, It was for1 the general good of the public to reopen re-open tho waters or Utah loko to fll. Ing, Ho Btates that his wholb Inter, cat is to do all he can to havo tho wntcr resources of tho state properly utilised. Ho states that he concurred in tho opinion of tho Tooele dclcga tlon that It might bo wise to mako a filing, but thnt It has not been dono to date. "If thero Is any further information I can secure for you, I am at your service. However, In view of tho fact that tho stato engineer is back from California, It seems that a further consultation con-sultation with him personally might bo advIsabloTis tho quickest way to straighten out matters." |