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Show c "Pumping Water Costs Money In our Issue of October 31, under? the nbovo caption, was an article showing tho pumping charges undcrj tho Utah Lake Irrigation company? Saratoga district to bo $G.3C per acrefl If threo acre feet of water was used! This statement wns based on a notlcol of assessment for 40 shares, whlclju called for $10S,25 for CI aero fcelJf water used. The following letter from President Murdock Is self ?bx-planatory. ?bx-planatory. 9 Editor Lchl Danncr, Lehi Utnlu w Dear Sir: ji Lehi Banner dnto- October 31, 1911, regardlnc'tho cost of pumping water under tho Utah Lnko Distributing company, we believe that In some Instances In-stances you hnvo unintentionally conveyed con-veyed a wrong Impression regarding tho actual cost of tho water per acre foot pumped, and nlso tho nctunl amount of water required per acre for n good water right. Our contract provides that a farmer may use, If he desires to do so, thicc aero feet of water during tho season of lfiO days; yot there is no single crop which has used threo ncro feet this year. Our cxperleuco shows thnt grain crojiB arc raUcd with ono to ono nnd one-hnlf acre feet, potatoes and corn crops with 0110 nnd one-hnlf ncro feet. It Is estimated that sugar beets may requlro two acre feet, nnd whero n variety of crops are grown, Including alfalfa, two acre feet Is amjilo. Tho fact, however, that threo acre feet of water may bo taken during the season gives tho farmer n lnrgor dutj of water at any slnglo tlmo, If he requires re-quires It; bo that his water comes more often, nnd his stream Is larger than If our wntor right required hln to toko two acre feet of wntor over i period of 150 days, It costs $1.15 jior aero foot to jmmp our water nt tho pumping plant. The seejiago this year amounted to about ono per cent per mile. If two acre feet were used In tho Saratoga District Dis-trict the electric charge would b $2.65. Tho overhead chnrgo for this-year this-year being $0.80, would mnko tho cost $3.35. As more wotor Is used tho scepng In the canal will be less, and whoi moro people toko water tho overhead charges will also bo reduced. Whei tho farmers got their headgatos jiro-porly jiro-porly constructed, and tho lnnd In condition to rotnlu tho wntor, tho 1oh In Irrigation will bo mittorlnlly lessoned. lesson-ed. Our reason for fixing tho pumping charges at $0.00 was thnt the chnw might bo uniform to comply with our Articles of Agreement, and for th.' bonoflt of any party who might iloslio to use the full threo aero foot of water wa-ter that he Is entitled to use under our contract Howovcr, In your nr-tlclo nr-tlclo referred to, you make this matter clear, that from tho chnrgo of $G.00, '"No credited each stockholder with the quantity of water that ho did imt use, and also tho difference be-&ocn be-&ocn the actual cost of pumping nnd Uie $0 00 charged. Yours truly. AlTAII LAKE IRRIGATION CO. $ Jos. R. Murdock, Pros. 5 |