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Show ISUGAR COMPANY ! WANTING WATER t Sends Legal Light to Investigate In-vestigate Records. Speculations as to What Move Means. What does the Ctah Sugai Co want with detailed Infoimation legardlng the water rights of this count.v. is a question that is agitating the minds of a few who are onto tho fact that during the past few days a legal lepto-senlatlve lepto-senlatlve of the sugar companv lias been at the court house assiduously-digging assiduously-digging up this Information. Some of these questloneis, knowing that the company was shoit of water the past few months, Imagine they smell a mouse and aro Inclined to believe that this corporation hopes to secure all the extra water not appropriated, and work any other scheme possible while the water uscis arc asleep. Such a proposition as that is of serious ser-ious consequence to tills county, and a icpiesentatlve of Tin; Rm-t iii.ican hastened to Interview Mr. J M. Ricee, the gentleman now locking up the records. It is not to be expected, of course, that Mr. Hiece would give out anything inimical to tho company's com-pany's interests, and while that gentleman gen-tleman spoke in the most candid and convincing way ol his work and knowledge knowl-edge of the company's object In hav-Ing hav-Ing him secuie tills detailed information informa-tion Tiik Ukitiimcan does not olTer tills as conclusive, nor yet does It pie-sume pie-sume to intimate that the company u-ally hasulteiloi designs. T)u Information Infor-mation secure.) fiom Mi Hreee is tiie only Infoimation obtainable at tills time and we piesent It for what the public deems It worth undei the circumstances. In reply to a question as to the company com-pany 's object In having Cache county-records county-records Inspected, Mi. Hreee said It was merely- to complete a tabulation designed to cover tho watei aupiopria-tlons aupiopria-tlons along Hear River and Its tributaries. tribu-taries. Since May, Mr. Hrcce has been engaged hi this work and Is just now finishing up. Tho company un-deistauds un-deistauds that, in a few years tho water question will become rather stienuoiisand It Is the disposition to plan for that now by securing all needed Information This will be kept In the company's oillce in such shape that when It is deslicd to look up any portion, It may be found readily Accotdingto Mr. Itreee tiie company com-pany has no underhanded motive In this, it Is hoped that by this work now litigation In the future may bo prevented The various canal com-panics com-panics and water corporations up north have given him every aid possible pos-sible and seem to understand that the move Is really a good one. So far as Cache Is concerned, It Is Mr. Rreec's expression that there Is never liable to be any litigation In any way, as the people's rights are all pi lor ones, and the Information he gets here Is more to make the whole woik complete than any thing else. Another object in this matter, at least so far as the not thern people aro concerned, Is to make the big canal from Mud lake to Hear i her more of a success. This ditch can be or gieatest sci vice to fanneis along that ditch If they become Interested. Mr. Hrcexe confesses that the shortage of water which made It Impossible for the power pow-er plant In Hear liver canyon to run during the summer, thus entailing a loss or :i,(K)0 a mouth, has a gieat deal to do with the present opeiatlons but he insists that tho company has no designs It is the hope that eventually a ditch from Hear lane itself may he seemed. |