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Show WATER USERS GET TOGETHER Mound Fort Residents to Form Mutual Association to Enter Rights A large number of water users re-e re-e ir.g water under what ie knowr as :he Afound Forr system, liaxe signified helr Intention to enter their rights under un-der :i mutual as-.oclatlon. so that the Tvater can be regulated according to tho acreage actually Irrigated Thte statement was made resteraay afternoon by H. M. Tgai-r, field en-glneer en-glneer of the slate engineer's office, with headquarters at Snlt I.-iic- who wlUi J. J. 8anford, field engineer, also of the state, engineer's office, has been In Otfd-n for Monie weeks m.tm siding water nscra of the gd'.n NS -h. r und tributary water systems in filling out their claims to water rights Mr, Tegart said that the water us- ' ers of tn Mound Fort ipstem, In accordance ac-cordance with the provisions of Chapter Chap-ter 67. Session Laws of I'tah, 191 f were required to file with th- . I. rk the court within 00 days from and after af-ter service of notice upon them fk 1 sonally, otherwise within r'0 days after af-ter publication of notice, a written StatemSrit under oath setting forth tho facta Jis to their claims snd riirht to and In the waters of the ht. pd n and trlliutarj' water systems and that a failure to file mioii claims Within the specified time, would result In Buch persons beintf barred and estopped forever from ever asserting any subsequent sub-sequent claims to such water There are approximately 3 If. users of the water from thc Mound Fort system Mr. Tegart said, and lie po ed out that the necessary Manks could be secured at the office in tiv federal building each day In the week excepting except-ing Saturday afternoon and Sunday Approximately CO per cent of th-water th-water users In lower Ogden valley have filled out claims to date he said |