| Show WOULD REPEAL All RIVER ACTS State Senator Declares Colorado Is Navigable Stream SE Special lal Dispatch SALT LAKE Jan U-D U U 14 Declaring Declaring clar- clar clarIng ing It la to ridiculous for tor or the s l legs legs- lature to approve any ony oct net which will declare the Colorado river uuna Senator Knox Patter Patter- BOn sOn On of ot Moab Joab saya s 's he will Introduce a bill Monday Holiday calling for repeal of all Utah I affecting the Colorado river ON OS OIL runES Not only Is la the river valuable for or power purposes the senator but within the state ot of Utah It is situated upon the tho of a aeries serIes of oil structures and his Ills geologic feature obtains throughout the course courso of the river In this thia slate elate Senator Patterson de- de dec dec de-c de c red ared the productivity of th the oil OIl structures has hos been largely proven and anil an with Ith Utah's claim to the river bed throughout the tho a large reve A ue A will lt result to A th the hn state through the lease leaS of ot thea tt c i lands end and royalties on too oil The money derived from 1 t da source would largely develop the power sites site of the state and promote its Irrigation projects proJect according ac- ac cording to Mr Patterson WOULD LOSE ALL LJ If It the Colorado river Is s to be bec bec bec non navigable non c as a I stream Senator tor Patterson de- de deI de declared Utah loses her power rights right her river riser bed rights and amI the he right to control the tho water of the Colorado river and the tribu tribu- tributarIes tribu- tribu tributaries thereof within the tho state tale of Utah Can anything be more Idiotic and disastrous to the interest of the state elate than to have the tho lure legis- legis lawre laaure go upon record by the law lawas lawas ns as declaring that tho the Colorado river Is a non non navigable stream There Thero is a suit suit cult now pending In Inthe Inthe inthe the federal court of this state to determine the navigability na of the Colorado river over certain areas s In the tho state of Utah Utah and the only thing that can possibly defeat our to the river bed is this dec dec- dec declaration ot of the legislature a ad ad adi di d that Is wholly holly untrue that the tho Colorado river Is fe a non non- non navigable navigable stream T O LSE Fr Now IS a ne I Colorado river now nov furnishes the tho only means of transportation for tor forthe the development of ot the oil structures structures structures tures which lie along the Colorado river from where enters enteN the state to where It makes I Is s exit that hundreds of tons of mol mol- mj are now being transported monthly upon this river It If It anything is required to- to to pro pro- protect pro protect teet the rights of o Utah to the wa- wa waters wa waters tera of ot the Colorado river It Is legislation on the part of our stat state authorizing the state engineer ora ora or a corporation organized for the purpose to make application for these waters under the laws ot of the state of ot Utah and Initiate a aright aright aright right under such application there thero- thereby thereby by amply protecting us against prior appropriations from tb the river below 00 00 |
