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Show PUMPING PLAN IS OFF North Jordan Irrigation Company Com-pany Won't Go In. THE AGREEMENT IS BROKEN North Jordan Stockholder Took ths Position That City Has No More Hlght to Pllo on Waters of Lake Than Company Has and Itefuse to Pay rJloOO Work of City Council Undone Canal Presidents Meet Tomotrow A Stattmont by tho Mayor. (Sunday s Dull) ) The deal between the city and ths canal companies In lejard to the waters wa-ters or Utnh lake Is off because of the) refusal of the directors and stockholders stockhold-ers of the North Jordan Irrigation company to unite with the other four companies The stockholW of this company held s. melting yesterduy and adpoted a set of resolutio is that knock, tho combination In the hesd 'Ih purport pur-port of thuee resolutions is to the effect ef-fect that "alt Lake has no more right In file upon the tester of the like and Appropilnte them than Ihe North Jordin enmpan) had and that the stockholders dlu not puipoie to pa) the city 11 100 for something It Is not entitled tn Till, action on the part of this coin-pan) coin-pan) uisels the work line b) Ihe Clly Council In passing the resolutions agreeing to go In with the canal companies, com-panies, and again passing them over the veto of Mnor Thompson The Utnh cVf Salt Lnko Canal company ratine rati-ne the nrreemeut ome das ago Yesterday Yes-terday the directors of the Last Jordan Jor-dan lrrlgitlon compiny und the booth Jordan Cunal company rntllied the proposition, and nothing stood In the wn or the earning out of the ptoject, but the opposlllun of the North Jordan Jor-dan people, or tin Injunction b) someone some-one on behalf of the elt) Theio can be no cpt stlon but that tho opposition of any one of the companies com-panies breaks tho agreement for all, and brings tho matter right hick to where It was before an) action wis tnken The agreement was that each of the four canal companies should pay the city the sum of s.1600 a, Its portion of tho cost of filing upon the watois of the like, all ttve organizations organiza-tions were to Join In bCnglng suits to quiet title to tne "aleru 'I the streams Mowing lto the lake nil were to Join equally In lofraylng the cost of Installing Install-ing the pumping plant nt the Intake of tho river and all were to unite In pio. tectlng the common rlRht, lo tho waters wa-ters of the lake. A vlolttion ot the ngreement b any one of the companies com-panies release's nil the others and It I, reasonably certain that Mavor Thompson Thomp-son who Is npptued to the pmpusltlon will tHke advantige of this action on the part of the North Joril in company to upset the whole schi me No fur-thei fur-thei netlon la needed, however, us the action of the canal rompauy does the business The directors ot the North Jordun compan) will meet In this city tomorrow tomor-row to carry Into e rfe t the desire of the stockholders All the cunal presidents pres-idents ate to have n meeting In tho city the simo da), and It Is supposed that sime conclusion will be reached a, to what course Is tn be follow el. In view of the adverse action of the North Jordan It 1, Pieslilent Cannon's Idea that the other three cnnnl companies will go ahead with the erection of the pumping plant nn)hnw, M i)or Thompson said Inst night that he nluaja knew that the North Jordan Jor-dan people were oppood to the proposition, propo-sition, he had no doubt whatever that the deal hid fallen through ns tho result re-sult of this opposition |