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Show PERFECT FILING IN WATER CLAIM UTAH IRRIGATION PROJECT WILL E ASSISTED TO COMPLETION IS LATEST INFORMATION Salt Lake Company Proposes Dig System to Irrlgato 104,92 Acres In Upper Sanpete County Salt Lake That n tract of ground agrregntlng 101,320 acres may bo IrrU gifted, application was mado to the state engineer Vednesdny" by C. A, Gillette, who reporesents the Ilalloran- Jtulgo company, of Salt Lake, to divert 21,5,000 acre feet of water from IMco river, Huntjngton creek and Cotton-' wood creek In Carbon and Emery counties.' coun-ties.' TJie diverting works ylli be, an oui.th .and concroto dam and, ed'aal tliojater being eighty miles In length, tatty feet wldb ut thetop, twenty-live a.Ltjio bottom and. a, depth of wilder of five feet, -r, Tho application Is lu reality a refiling re-filing on tho, waters of tho streams over Vhl6h" thcro has been a controv-csy controv-csy between tho applicants and the Trice lUver Irrigation district. It Is proposed to take the water from Cottonwood crock to nn amount- of 100,000 acre feet and from Huntington creek 40,000 aero feet. j. ne waters so uivcrieu are to oe stored wherever available throughout tho year and released from the reservoirs reser-voirs as required. Tho canal will carry tho water down Price canyon to Col ton, thenco to Soldier Summit, where it will commingle with tho waters wa-ters of Soldlor fork creek, then Into a canal near Tucker, thenco to Thlstlo and Indlnnola to the head of the Sanpete San-pete valley. At this point tho waters will branch, ono canal carrying the water wa-ter along the east side of the Sanpete valley, the other by the way of Fountain Foun-tain Green to Salt Creek canyon, whore the water will commingle with Salt crock and thenco conveyed to the lands adjacent to Nopht and Levan. I-dist week there was a conference between Governor Charles It. Mabey State Engineer It. K. Caldwell, W. D. Candlnud of Sanpete county, William llulley from Juab county and two rep-rcsentntlves rep-rcsentntlves of tho Halloran-Judgo company, Wesley K. King and 0. A. Glllete, Which had already mado Mings on the wators similar to tho tilings of Wednesday, and Carl It. Mar-cusen, Mar-cusen, who represented tho Price river Irrigation district regarding the plans being promoted by tho company. No conclusion was reached lu that Mr. Marcusen had not tho proper authority author-ity to-act for tho Prlco irrigation district. "The Idea of tho Hallornn-Judgo or. ganlzatlon Is that there shall be ore-dated ore-dated threo Irrigation districts Price rhor, Sanpete and Juab and that these districts shall bocome purchas. ors of- Water to bo Impounded by res- A..mliu ti ln l.nIH nnil (ivvnAil liv tlu Halloran-.Tudge corporation," It 'Is stnted. "A- pooling of water from the Gooseberry, from Fish creek and from Huntington and-Cottonwood creek over In "lmuery county Is advocated and an ofTort Is made to get Price rlvcr-Irrlgatlon rlvcr-Irrlgatlon jljstrlct t.o see It advantage In exchanging waters" from these other creeks. ,Tho stato engineer has announced an-nounced ' hl3 lntenetlon to reject tho claim. |