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Show SIMV To ACT Property owners using latterals ' from the Gunnison City caual canal , arc slow to comply with the request j made both by the caual officials and j the city officers and until the latter- j a!s are cleaned as requested, the wa-i ter from the main canal will not be ; turned In. More than two weeks: ago it was asked that the ditches leading from the main canal be put ! in shape and cleared of the rubbish and debris so as to avert overflow j and street flooding, but many have ! I ignored the request. Yesterday M. D. Beauregard, president of the Canal company, announced that many of the headgates would be locked and would not be opened until un-til the ditches were cleaned. In the years past the canal company not only lost much water by useless waste but in many cases the streets were made almost impassable by flooding, and to avoid a repetition of those conditions the strict rule will be enforced. |