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Show Officials Survey Water Conditions . With an effort in view to better the water conditions in the state canal, fed from the Piute Reservoir & Irrigation Irri-gation company, with the reservoir located in Piute county, officials of the company made a minute survey of the canal Monday, from its outlet to as far as Venice, in Sevier county. Joseph Peterson, president of the Piute company, A. J. Crosier of Sal-ina, Sal-ina, Ira Overfelt and Conrad Frisch-knecht, Frisch-knecht, board members, and L. R. Anderson, newly appointed member of the state land board, made the trip over the territory and inspected the lands benefited and those not benefited, bene-fited, the canal construction and its possible needs. Mr. Anderson, state land board member, who accompanied the party, was after first-hand information concerning con-cerning the proper distribution and the proper allottment of water for the districts in Sanpete and Sevier counties from the big state ditch. It was shown that under the new adjudication ad-judication the sections involved were entitled to 47,000 acre feet of water. During the past season, when one of the largest beet crops ever grown in the section was harvested, only 13,000 acre feet of water was delivered, and the crops were more or less imperiled for want of the proper and legaf al-Uottment al-Uottment of water. While the officials j were on the inspection trip, a careful j note was made of the land which yields good crops and those that were inferior, coming under the waters of the state canal. A compilation of the observances made by Mr. Anderson will be made and submitted to the state land board members, and it is likely that body will visit here and make a thorough examination, later making corrections that will provide for the proper distribution dis-tribution of the waters in the two counties. |