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Show UTAH LAKE. Attitude of the Salt Lake County People Concerning: Their Big-lit to Back up the Waters. The board of referees in the damage suits brought by Utah county farmers against Sf It Like city and the different differ-ent canal companies of Salt Lake county will on Monday morning next, in the county courthouse, begin to hear evidence bearing upon the amount of damage sustained by the farmers, the board having decided that tne Salt Lake parties are liable. There is more in these cases affecting all the p ople of Utah county than many of them realize. real-ize. The Salt Lake parties claim they once paid $8,000.00 for tt-e privilege of flooding Utah lake, lor the privilege of covering with water thousands of acres of rich agricultural land in Utah county in order that a few hundreds of acres of alkali beds in Salt Lake county may be irrigated, tilled and made to yield half crops. The facts are that they did no such thing; they paid the $8,000 00 for damage to Utah county farmers that they did by flooding the lake. The water in the lake is now ten inceB above compromise point and hundreds of acres of good tillable land which the farmers should be basy seeding now, lies under water. And this is not all. The cases are to be carried to the supreme ourt of the territory and to the supreme court of the Jnited States if needs be, and during all that time our lands will be flooded ana the health of the people will be impaired. The Salt Lake people are so bold as to announce that when they go to the supreme court, they will claim the right, and fight tor it, to back the waters of Utah lake up until they reach the highest point they were at in 1861 which was fully bix feet above compromise point. This means that they will claim the right to despoil 19,030 acres of Utah county's best tillable till-able lands and to fill the valley full of the germs of malarial fever and other oiseasES. |