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Show Pumps May Not Operate the Coming Season lineMlgallng runners I'lnd Planks in Jordan Jam mIIIi t'tali Lake Nearly llghleen Inches Aboio ('nuiproiiilso j Taint uud Waler Still Rising. Israel Evans is suelng the Salt Lake Canal companies Tor damages resulting result-ing from high water. Somo of the Provo and lnke shoro farmers are threatening suit becauso of the high ater overflowing their farms. The high water level of 1'JO'J lias i.ot yet been reached, but as trcmcndoUFi. bliiams are pouring Into the Inlw with tho hlfch water season yet to come, ll Is probahlo n now high water rec ird may be established. Last week a committee of Provo huzoiie, consibting or Lilwaril Farrer, Joel A Johnson, George E. CooK( George T Pony, Sr., and George T Peay, Jr., visited the dams In Jordan Rlier and found two feet five Inches of water flowing over tho upper dum and twenty-two inches of plank In llils tlnm. They sad Hint the plank had. boon lu the dnm nil winter and sprlug, whllo three feet ot plank hnd been kept In the lower dam during the same time,. and nil contrnry to agreements agree-ments heretofore entered Into. These planks should bo out fiom October K. to jMarch IS In low water seasons uiul kept out entirely during lilgu water. It Is probable that the big pumps may not bu operated at all durlng'.lhe present- Irrigation season. Tlm.-vlVcr Utnow tlowlng' by grnvllyuorjLtlihu tho fjffitiors can uso, and the flow will Increase for some tlnm yet to come. The wuter Is now touching tho wagon bridge' at the head of tho river, and when there Is u strong south wind the water almost crosses tho road. In tho latter part of tho season, as the water begins to recede, the farmers uso less water, so that it now looks ns If there would lie no need of operating op-erating tho big pumps nt all this uiim-mor. uiim-mor. From this It would appear that the sixty second feet being pumped by tho Utah Lnko Irrigation Company nnd the fifty second feet by the Mo-sida Mo-sida Fruit Lauds Company, besides Iho numerous small private plants recently re-cently Installed, are making but little difference to the lake's supply, or else that if these newly Installed plants iud not been put lu operation the county would now bo Hooded At the time theso Provo gentlemen mndo their visit they also measured the level of tin; lake and found that It ,vas seventeen and threc-nunrter Inches above compromise point |