Show COUNCIL U IN SPECIAL S re C I 1 A L SESSION i WILLARD CREEK WATER QUES TION AGAIN considered action must be taken ikea bythe by the city lefo before e april 19 or lose the water right A special meeting of the city council was held last el evening ening to consider the willard creek water question which has been before the council almost weekly since last tall fall the new question as raised at the regular meeting monday night was again considered in various lights and finally referred to a committee consisting of councilmen dana wilsom and thomas mayor brewer and city attorney devine to investigate and report to the council at its next regular meeting thomas who brought the subject before the city council monday said that he had been informed by the moore barker interests that provided the city would execute a bond as a guarantee that tho the deal whereby moore and barker would receive for water rights in the canyon could be taken up and consummated at some future indefinite time the affair would be allowed to lie on the table for the present the scheme proposed would not have released the city from the obligation of buying the rights had it been accepted but would merely have delayed the transaction during the discussion at the regular session monday night it was brought out that the cites rights to the water would expire april 19 unless renewed and that the rights of moore and barker were questionable As the situation is the city must april 19 or lose the water moore and barker have probably already lost their title and the council by the tie vote agreed not to have anything more to do with the transaction so unless action is taken immediately the city will be compelled to pay tor for nothing as it has been declared by the city attorney that the contract hold held by moore and barker Is valid and that th at on its face the city can be made to turn over the money it was for this reason the session was called last |