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Show METROPOLIS IS PROSPERING PLACE A. Ferrln of Metropolis, Nov., formerly for-merly a resident of North Ogden, is In the city. He will depart for his home tomorrow. Mr. Ferrin roports crops good this Beason, some of the lands producing as high as 100 bushels or oats to tho acre. There are now seven hundred people peo-ple at the new town and rapid progress prog-ress Is being made In the upbuilding of the country. Tho people havo churches and good schools and rall- Tho Tecent controversy with tho Par ciflc Reclamation company -which built a reservoir for tho Impounding of the waters of Bishop crook to be used for the reclamation of the Metropolis lands, is pending la the supremo court of tho United States and tho famors are certain that they will gain a victory vic-tory In the ond The question involved, says Mr. Ferrin, is whether the waters used by the Pacific company aro surplus waters, wa-ters, the courts of Nevada deciding that they are not The farmer having water rights In the reservoir has had the use of tho reservo' waters all summer and splendid crops ha been raised The judgment of many of tho farmers farm-ers Is that undue influence of some kind was brought to boar on tho courts hearing the case, and witnesses witness-es testified to many things prejudicial to the intcrosts of tho community at Metropolis that wcrnol altogether rue. 1 Weather conditions at Metropolis. Mr. Ferrin says, are ibout the same as here. on |