Show THEY FAILED TO ORDER OF COURT contempt proceedings in irrigation fight will be heard in salt lake aug 9 from saturdays standard before judge ritchie of the third district court of salt lake judge john E bagley secured a citation for pany vs georga A fuller at al to or contempt ot court the contempt proceedings are based on the alleged refusal ot the defendants in the case of the north ogden irrigation company vs george A fuller et at to obey an injunction granted aug 1 by judge J A howell in the second district court ordering the defendants to release water of the north fork ot ogden river alleged to have boon unlawfully retained by the latter the hearing on the contempt charges before judge has been sot for aug 9 and by stipulation with the attorneys the defendants will enter their appearance without arrest the moves in the suit now pending have to date all been made by the attorneys for the plaintiffs and as the case promises to be on of the greatest suits over water rights that utah has yet seen the line of defense to be made by the attorneys tor the defendants is awaited with interest in speaking of the case judge bagley said the eden people have in their ditches SO feet of water or thereabout there about to 12 1 2 feet of which the north ogden irrigation company have a prior right the eden people absolutely refuse to release any part of the water all of which they claim and it hat they maintain is right then every irrigation law in vogue in the state Is wrong and every irrl cigalor below eden will be divested 0 his rights what is to be the outcome is the question that every farmer whether interested in the case or not Is asking all realize that on tha suit depends the loss of chopa in either he eden or the north ogden districts if eden has been retaining the water unlawfully then they must relinquish their claim and their crops will be destroyed it the irrigation companas comp anys claim to the water is a figment 0 the imagination then north ogden be content with what water those above allow to escape and their crops will perish As the time passes feeling is growing stronger the outcome of the suit means actual financial ruin to some and judging from the temper of the people interested there will be trouble of more serious nature than a law suit it has been suggested that the only avay out of the difficulty without fereal injury to either side Is tor the farmers to join in petitioning and urging the government reclamation service to build a dam in ogden canyon store the flood waters thereby making available an ample supply for all users and doing away with all necessity for costly ruinous litigation the attorneys for the plaintiffs in this case are maginnis Maginn ls henderson and bagley and the defendants fend ants are represented by C C richards and J N kemball |