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Show UiAlMffi PROJECT l J: . An Old Citizen's VicWs en the Subject. THE FARMERS SUFFERING' ' An Interesting Letter in Answer to (ho Letter Published in the News. On pago fifty-two of tho Christmas News In an articlo by Thomas P. Page. Wo flml tho following: Tho enjoying ol tho use of watti 'by Irrigators in Utah, Wasatch and Bumihli counties, whoso tights are subsequent to tho irrigators I.. the Jordan Canal, has been discussed considerably by tho board of canal presidents, but whllo thy wcro unanimous In desiring to carry tins plan out they were ui ablo to agrco on the inodo of proceduro etc. It adds that tho Jordan farmers hid brought a great deal of land under cultivation cul-tivation within that timo n.imed (20 yoars.) Wo aro told that one of our delegates from this end ol the count y, crilisized lhatnsnn insano idea. And viewing It from what we know about it, if not insane it certainly proves that the parlies mohtioned do not undorotaud tho situation. from IU6d to 1870 tho three tbwr.s of Lehi, Am. Fork, Pleasant drtfvt? spent about $12,000 to maice a canal'trum tile Provo river because they were I lion Short of walef ttnd all tho nrflural flow had I'Cen appfoplrfted'Hlid rased, r.it-.lilg thelislil irtigntlon company as .an example, thero are 465 stockholders .ia it and none of tliese are new appro- , ipriaiors. Anil if water lias been put on 'l' tto now, land, it lias only been in favor- T able seasons to be abandrd again In sca- WSt nonsHko the past iwo ojr Jhree. Ucro kftw his iieen no new stock.UsuedWand r.o k'' newclaIi.drritleTl'.-- J-L1L J town's only, it WoUldMmulhlly' Lohr-bjr Lf at least twelve stockholders, or -5,620 W defendants, with Wns.itch and Summit counties yet to be heard from. Win I a harvest for lawyers to be euro. t Another point is that water is needed lor the future wants of Silt Lake C ty1. Hut is Salt Lako City the only p'aco that should expand? Has not any other or all tho towns the dko light if , they can do so by better administering the waters? Hero is the fact: Bali Lake county appropriated the waters ol tho laku i nd 1 not tho rivers. When the' w'ateis reach tho lako they can get it and liuvo' it, but I not before. Again tho past seasons of scarcity liuvo affected the'so other towns as bad as Salt Lako City. Where is the . redress for that? f We realizo that the only reason that ft. we have suffered is becauso tho si ow fe did not fall in the mountains. F Henco instead of suing they had I ot- . tcr turn their attention to praying tl at .more snow might fall. b, Tho talk ia about raising tho hike i6Ur(ace, but as tho water is now thiity Awo inchea'bflow couipromls" point, it should be filled up before anxiety for moie. An Old Settler. X |
